Author: Desk Editor

Manohar Parrikar, Goa Chief Minister and former defence minister, has passed away at the age of 63 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Parrikar was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer in February 2018 and had been in and out of hospitals in Goa, Mumbai, Delhi and New York since.

“Such functions had earlier created law-and-order problems,” said Commissioner Deepak Kumar. The prohibition came in the wake of the festival to be celebrated in its traditional way of exchanging colours and also keeping in mind of the safety concern for women.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and top BJP leaders on Sunday prefixed ‘chowkidar’ to their name on Twitter as part of a campaign launched on Saturday that asked people to take the ‘main bhi chowkidar hoon’ pledge. The move is a counter to Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s pitch that mocks PM

Even as India and Pakistan were in a tense stand-off in the third and fourth weeks of February on the Western Front, on the Eastern Front, the Indian and the Myanmarese armies were launching a coordinated effort to strike at positions of the so-called Arakan Army, which threatened a crucial