Tag: India
RBI Cuts Lending Rate To 6.25%, Shifts Stance To 'neutral'
In the final monetary policy review of the current fiscal, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday lowered its key lending rate for commercial banks to 6.25 per cent.....
IAF Hits JeM's Biggest Camp In Pakistan: India
Twelve days after a JeM suicide bomber killed 40 CRPF troopers, India on early Tuesday struck the Jaish-e-Mohammed's (JeM) biggest training camp at Balakot killing "a very large number" of terrorists and their trainers. Within hours, Pakistan threatened a "befitting response".....
Sitharaman Visits Wing Commander Abhinandan In Hospital
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday visited Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman at an armed forces medical facility here and enquired about his health.....
Speculation Over Masood Azhar's Whereabouts
Intense speculation made the rounds about Masood Azhar's whereabouts on Sunday with a report of him getting killed in the bombardment by Indian Air Force (IAF) on a terror camp in Balakot going viral, but there was no confirmation from any authoritative sources.....
Congress Questions Number Of Casualties In Airstrike In Pakistan
With the government yet to give an official count of the number of terrorists killed in the airstrike in Pakistan's Balakot and Air Chief Marshal B. S. Dhanoa declining to comment on the casualties, the Congress on Monday questioned the actual figure of casualties and accused the BJP of politicising the operation.....
Two Militants Killed In Pulwama Encounter
Two militants were killed on Tuesday in a gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, police said.....
India Demands New Pakistan To Show New Action
India on Saturday in a strong message to Islamabad said that if it claimed to be a "naya Pakistan with nayi soch", it should show "new action" against terror outfits operating on its soil and end cross-border terrorism in support of its assertions.....
NDA Will Marginally Fall Short Of Majority But Form Government
The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will fall marginally short of a majority in the Lok Sabha but will comfortably form the government with post poll tie-ups. In the eventuality of no Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance of opposition parties) in Uttar Pradesh, the Narendra Modi-led NDA will walk home with over 300 Lok Sabha seats.....
Priyanka Makes First Tweets, Recalls Words Of Gandhi
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who made her debut speech on Tuesday in Gandhinagar after becoming a party general secretary, also made her first tweets hours later.....
Jaish Chief Stayed In Ashok & Janpath Hotels In Delhi In 1994
Details emerging from Pulwama mastermind Maulana Masood Azhar's interrogation report -- when he was in Indian captivity for five years -- reveal that like 26/11 perpetrator David Coleman Headley, he too roamed around India without any fear. On exiting IGI, like Headley, he too was driven to the Ashok Hotel slapbang in the middle of LBZ and the heart of India's diplomatic community (Headley had stayed at the Mumbai Taj and got GPS coordinates for all the locations for 26/11).....
