Balakot: Imran says ‘will respond at time and place of our choosing’

Hours after Indian jets carried out the air strikes in Balakot inside Pakistan, the Pakistani prime minister, Imran Khan, held a special meeting of the country’s national security committee, in which he asked the country to remain “prepared for all eventualities”. Read More
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Modi at National War Memorial launch: Congress neglected forces

While addressing the gathering in the inauguration of the memorial, Modi said, “The demand for a national war memorial has been raised for decades, there were efforts in the last decade or two but nothing concrete took place.” Read More
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Prasad: Won’t tolerate abuse of data to influence polls

The minister of information technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad, said social-media platforms are welcome to do business in India, which celebrates freedom of ideas, but New Delhi will not tolerate any abuse of data to influence elections nor allow “data imperialism”. Read More
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Anand Sharma says OIC invitation to India is ‘misplaced euphoria’

Anand Sharma, who is a senior Congress spokesman, has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Swaraj to respect the past position of India of not attending meetings of the OIC until it is accepted as a full member, given the country’s large Muslim population. Read More
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Rahul says ‘Modi doesn’t seem to think a job crisis exists’

Congress president Rahul Gandhi, on Saturday, accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of being unwilling to recognize that there is an unemployment problem in the country. Gandhi said Modi “talks to youths but does not listen to them”. Read More
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Kohli on playing Pakistan in WC: ‘Will stand by what BCCI decides’

With the BCCI wanting to forfeit the clash with Pakistan in the upcoming World Cup 2019, Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli, on Saturday, said that they will stand by whatever decision the cricket body takes. Read More
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On current India-Pakistan ties, Trump says ‘very, very bad’

The United States president, Donald Trump, on Friday, described the current situation between India and Pakistan as “very, very bad”. He said his administration was in contact with both sides and hoped hostilities would soon end in the Kashmir valley. Read More
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‘We aren’t waiting for IAF, making products before orders’: HAL chief

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited chairman R Madhavan said HAL has moved away from its strategy of depending entirely on IAF orders to build products and is now venturing into building products before orders are placed. Read More
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VK Singh says ‘Kashmir was normal between 2005 and 2012’

Junior foreign minister and former Army chief General VK Singh said the situation in Kashmir was normal from 2005 to 2012, when the Congress-led UPA was in power, and wonder why the condition deteriorated after that. Read More
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Narendra Modi says ‘Pulwama proves time for talks are over’

Modi said, “Brutal terrorist attack in Pulwama proves that time for talks have passed. Now, the entire world needs to unite against terrorism and its supporters and take strong actions.” Read More
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