BJP targets Congress as Manish Tewari’s book slams UPA over 26/11 response

Congress MP Manish Tewari’s book, in which he says India should have acted against Pakistan after 26/11, when his party was in power, has triggered a political storm. On Tuesday, BJP leaders slammed the Congress over the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s response to the 26/11 terror attacks in…

Withdraw Kangana Ranaut’s Padma Shri: Chorus grows after her freedom was ‘bheek’ remark

Politicians across party lines demanded the government take back the Padma Shri bestowed on actor Kangana Ranaut after she triggered a controversy by describing India’s Independence in 1947 as ‘bheek’ or alms. Ranaut also claimed that India attained freedom only after 2014, when the Narendra…

India’s price-fixing probe of global seed firms sparked by carrot farmers

An Indian antitrust investigation into suspected price collusion by some prominent global agricultural firms was triggered by farmers who complained about excessive pricing of imported carrot seeds, documents seen by Reuters showed. A group representing about 1,500 farmers in the mountainous Nilgiri district of Tamil…

Delhi Riots “Didn’t Take Place In Spur Of The Moment, Pre-planned”: Court

New Delhi:  The Delhi riots of 2020 were planned and calculated to cause disruptions and were not triggered by any incident, the High Court said while refusing bail to one of the accused in the case on Monday. “The February 2020 riots were a conspiracy, planned and executed. They evidently did not…

Panic buying leaves up to 90% of fuel pumps dry in major British cities

Up to 90% of British fuel stations ran dry across major English cities on Monday after panic buying deepened a supply chain crisis triggered by a shortage of truckers that retailers are warning could batter the world’s fifth-largest economy. A dire post-Brexit shortage of lorry drivers emerging after…