The police say Iqbal Kaskar, brother of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts mastermind Dawood Ibrahim, has confirmed that India’s most wanted terrorist is still in Pakistan NEW DELHI: India’s most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim is still in Pakistan, his brother Iqbal Kaskar has told the Intelligence Bureau or IB and the police, people familiar with the case…
NEW DELHI: India on Friday went hammer and tongs at Pakistan for its policy of sponsoring terrorism and said the country has now become “Terroristan“, or a land of “pure terror”. “Pakistan is now ‘Terroristan’, with a flourishing industry producing and exporting global terrorism,” India said while exercising its ‘right of reply’ at the United Nations…
The Pakistan premier sought to dispel the notion surrounding the country’s alleged inability to handle its nuclear programmes properly. Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Thursday his country has developed short-range nuclear weapons to counter the ‘cold start doctrine’ adopted by the Indian Army. Abbasi was also assertive of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenals being…
NEW DELHI: Indian techies and industry can breathe a sigh of relief as the US has resumed premium, or expedited, processing of H-1B visas in all categories. The service was suspended five months ago as officials struggled to handle a huge rush of applicants. The suspension+ had been seen as an example of US President Donald Trump‘s election campaign remarks…
Lt General D S Hooda (retd) who led the surgical strikes tells The Indian Express that the operation went according to plan and adds a serious option to India’s range of responses to terror attacks As we near the first anniversary of surgical strikes, can we now know from you what really happened? I know…
NEW DELHI: The government is planning an easier set of compliance norms for small businesses with annual turnover of under Rs 20 lakh as it seeks to widen the tax base to plug loopholes and make the Goods and Services Tax (GST) more broad-based. Government is planning an easier set of compliance norms for small…
Remember the good old bank clerk who used to update your pass book? The fact that he is hardly seen these days explains banking industry’s biggest predicament — Automation. On Wednesday, Vikram Pandit, who ran Citigroup during the financial crisis, endorsed this predicament with a disturbing figure. Pandit said developments in technology could see some 30 per cent of…
In western India, a pair of shiny black Trump buildings with gold insignia tower over the city of Pune. In nearby Mumbai, a 75-story Trump skyscraper will be one of the tallest in the megacity. In a swanky suburb of Delhi, two Trump partners have big plans. And in Kolkata, a new Trump tower is…
As India’s premier Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe prepare to break ground on the country’s first bullet train project on Thursday, experts say the collaboration could signal a massive leap for its overburdened and deadly railways. India’s colonial-era rail network carries some 22 million passengers daily, making it one of the busiest in the world. But it…
NEW DELHI: In India, many consider them “monsters.” Madhumita Pandey was only 22 when she first went to Tihar Jail in New Delhi to meet and interview convicted rapists in India. Over the past three years, she has interviewed 100 of them for her doctoral thesis at the criminology department of Anglia Ruskin University in the…
