India's former National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon says there is no alternative to talking to Pakistan to resolve outstanding issues because not talking is to allow terrorists to have a "veto on the relationship" and submitting to the "agenda of terrorists and their sponsors".Read News

Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh warned that the construction of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal to provide water to neighbouring Haryana can trigger return of militancy in the border state.Read News

Moderate separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq invokes former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to restore peace to the troubled Kashmir Valley. The "saddest part today”, the Mirwaiz said, "is that New Delhi is in a denial mode”. Read News

India values its friendship and longstanding cooperation with Cote d'Ivoire. Our bilateral relations have steadily grown and rest today on the foundation of a shared vision of democracy and development. Read News

Expecting the long-pending GST bill to get passed this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said any efforts to amend this law at central level are "over now" and it is up to individual states to pursue any changes. Read News

During my forthcoming State Visit, I expect to exchange views on all aspects of our ties with the leadership of China.Read News

Assam is at peace now but more needs to be done to bring investments, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has said, alleging that the BJP-led central government had failed to bring logical end to the ongoing talks with ULFA militants.Read News

The President Pranab Mukherjee has said that tolerance and co-existence are basic tenets of our civilization. He was replying to written questions from Al Ghad, an Arabic daily of Jordan on the eve of his visit to Jordan, Palestine and Israel from October 10 to 15, 2015. Read News

The President Pranab Mukherjee has said that India is concerned about the spill over effects of instability in the Middle East Region, resulting in increased terrorist activities across the world, including in South Asia. He was replying to written questions from the Jordan Times on the eve of his visit to Jordan, Palestine and Israel.Read News

The Bihar elections are a fight between GDP and ABC — good governance, development and progress versus anarchy, bad governance and corruption. This unholy nexus of corruption and bad governance, which is represented by the Congress, Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar, cannot even choose a poll plank for themselves. They are attacking the central government, Modiji; it seems this is a Parliament election. Read News