Varanasi gives rousing welcome to PM Modi

IANS | September 11, 2025 12:07 PM

New Delhi, Sep 11 (IANS) Varanasi residents showered flowers on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's convoy as he arrived in his parliamentary constituency on Thursday.

Indian diplomacy’s special call for handling a multipolar world order

D.C. Pathak | September 11, 2025 12:00 PM

New Delhi, Sep 11 (IANS) Current geopolitics is marked by the post-Cold War phenomenon of open warfare giving way to ‘proxy wars’, the competitive rise of China in relation to the US in military, technological, and economic term,s and the positioning of India as a world power that exercised strategic autonomy in handling international relations.

Cong criticises ECI over delay in adding Aadhaar as proof of identity in SIR exercise

IANS | September 10, 2025 11:01 PM

New Delhi, Sep 10 (IANS) The Congress on Wednesday questioned the Election Commission of India (ECI) on its delay in including Aadhaar card as proof of identity in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in Bihar, as instructed by the Supreme Court, and also for issuing a show-cause notice to party leader Pawan Khera allegedly without an investigation.

Why is Pakistan Army conducting airstrikes in Balochistan? (IANS Analysis)

IANS | September 10, 2025 10:36 PM

New Delhi, Sep 10 (IANS) Balochistan has been the theater of insurgency since 1948, the year after Pakistan’s creation, when the princely state of Kalat was forcibly annexed against the wishes of its people. From that moment onward, the relationship between Balochistan and the Pakistani state has been defined not by partnership but by coercion.