Standing up for the India Inc, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said wealth creators should not be eyed with suspicion and that they are country’s wealth and should be respected. Addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort here on the 73rd Independence Day, he said wealth creation is a great national […]

Pakistan PM Imran Khan told a special session of the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir “assembly” in Muzaffarabad that India had plans to attack PoK. He said that by revoking Article 370, India had internationalised Kashmir.

PM Narendra Modi said his govt will invest a massive Rs 100 lakh cr on developing infrastructure that will aid in nearly doubling the size of the economy to $5 trillion in the next 5 years. “But when we have in five years (of BJP rule) added $1 trillion as compared to $2 trillion size […]

India will finally have a tri-Service military chief or a chief of defence staff (CDS), a pivotal defence reform hanging fire since the 1999 Kargil conflict, to inject some much-needed synergy in planning, budgeting, procurements, training and logistics among the Army, Navy and IAF.

“If Article 370 was so important and life changing, why was this Article not made permanent? After all, those people had large mandates and could have removed the temporary status of Article 370. Those who supported Article 370, India is asking them,” PM Modi said in his speech.

Modi made the key announcement in his address to the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the occasion of 73rd Independence Day. The PM said the CDS will ensure synergy among the three services and provide effective leadership to them.

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An additional district judge’s court acquitted six men accused in the Pehlu Khan lynching case. The Rajasthan government said it would appeal the verdict in the high court. Judge Sarita Swami noted in her order that the police probe had serious shortcomings.