Month: April 2025

[ad_1] Image credits: Getty Images NEW DELHI: At a time when India is in talks with US for a trade deal, govt said it will not compromise on the country's interests because of deadline pressure to clinch FTAs."We do not negotiate at gunpoint... until we are able to protect the interests of the country and people, it is never good to be hasty," commerce minister Piyush Goyal said. The comments came amid confirmation that US Vice-President J D Vance and wife Usha, and NSA Mike Waltz would visit Delhi, likely April 21. Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said that there was a lot of interest among trading partners to step up bilateral trade ties. The comments came amid confirmation that key members of Trump team - Vice-President J D Vance and national security adviser Mike Waltz - would visit […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Tahawwur Rana (64), one of the main plotters of the 26/11 Mumbai attack, is being kept on "suicide watch" in a highly secure cell within National Investigation Agency (NIA) headquarters here after a special court granted his 18-day custody to the anti-terror agency.The Pakistani-Canadian, who was brought here on Thursday evening following his extradition from the US, is under 24/7 human and CCTV surveillance. The NIA HQ on Lodhi Road has been blanketed in multi-layered security. "Rana has been kept in a 14x14 cell on the ground floor. He will be allowed only a soft-tip pen to write so that he can't harm himself," a source said.On Friday, NIA began questioning Rana to unravel the larger conspiracy behind the terror strike. The interrogation is likely to focus on, besides his connection with ISI, involvement with sleeper cells […]

[ad_1] CHENNAI: Home minister Amit Shah on Friday announced BJP and AIADMK have decided to renew their alliance for the 2026 assembly elections in Tamil Nadu. Shah, who was in Chennai, said AIADMK will lead the alliance, and he was confident of a landslide win.The announcement came at a press conference where Shah shared the stage with AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami.Hailing the alliance, PM Modi said it "will take TN to new heights of progress".Significantly, K Annamalai, who was removed as BJP state chief later on Friday and was seen as the crucial factor in the break-up of the alliance in 2024, was present during announcement of the party yet again joining hands with AIADMK. These renewed ties mark a breakthrough for BJP's attempts to expand NDA alliance by enlisting new allies, and a calculated respect for AIADMK.The […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: India is geared up for a very high degree of urgency in finalising trade deals with the US and others, said EAM S Jaishankar Friday, as he stressed how the US under Donald Trump has fundamentally changed its approach to dealing with the world and the consequences this will have across all domains.India is negotiating a bilateral trade agreement (BTA) with the US to settle the contentious tariff issue. Speaking at Global Technology Summit, the minister said Trump administration had lost no time in responding to the proposal for a trade pact with India. Jaishankar spoke about the looming tariff war between US and China, and need for India to protect its own interests. "Nothing is just about trade anymore. Nothing is purely business. Everything has become personal," he said. "This time, we are certainly geared up […]