Ramesh Vinayak

‘I pray to Waheguru daily that the mistrust ends’: Harish Rawat

"I pray to Waheguru with folded hands daily that mistrust between the two should end. You have to deal with psychology of human beings. The CM has his own experience and Sidhu has his own style."

Punjab: As Congress factionalism persists, Opposition smells an opportunity

A little over a fortnight since Navjot Singh Sidhu’s anointment, the Punjab Congress remains a divided house. Adding to a palpable sense of disquiet and drift in the rank and file is a battle of wits playing out between Captain Amarinder Singh and Sidhu, who are now seen as rival centres of power

HT interview: Political thought process behind farmers’ agitation, says INLD supremo OP Chautala

The BJP-JJP alliance symbolises politics of opportunism, says Chaulata, adding that it will collapse the day it fails to serve the self-interests of the two allies

‘Capt Amarinder is not the Congress... he lies every day’: Navjot Singh Sidhu

Navjot Singh Sidhu talks to Hindustan Times on his expectations and his growing rift with chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh

‘Modi will have to take the initiative to resolve farm stir’, says Sukhbir Badal

In an interview to Hindustan Times, the Shiromani Akali Dal chief says Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have to take the initiative to resolve farm agitation

HC verdict a wake-up call for Cong govt, says Sunil Jakhar

Nine months before Punjab goes to assembly polls early next year, the Capt Amarinder Singh-led Congress government finds itself in a corner over the emotive sacrilege issue following the Punjab and Haryana high court order, quashing the special investigation team (SIT) report in the 2015 Kotkapura firing case

‘Non-conventional energy, tourism to boost economy’: Ladakh L-G

In his first sit-down interview at a makeshift Raj Bhawan in Leh, Ladakh’s first lieutenant governor, Radha Krishna Mathur, speaks to Hindustan Times about his road map and priorities, and the challenges he faces in helming the region.

Interview: Illegal intrusions in state not acceptable, says Anil Vij

Haryana home minister says there are about 1,500 Rohingya Muslim migrants putting up in Nuh who are being financially supported by Delhi-based NGOs

‘Ceasefire need of the hour... desirable for both India, Pak’: Lt-Gen BS Raju

Lt-Gen BS Raju said a quiet LoC will allow us to address the challenge of terrorism in a focused manner.

Interview| ‘Did not block any welfare scheme, ensured transparency’: Kiran Bedi

"The perception is that you have been eased out ahead of the assembly elections to blunt the Congress government tirade that you didn’t let it perform at the behest of the BJP," said Bedi.

Farmer leaders ready for talks with Centre but without any condition

In an exclusive interview, Rakesh Tikait and Balbir Singh Rajewal have dropped a conciliatory signal for the resumption of talks with the Centre as the farm agitation gathered pace over the last week

HT interview: Tikait, Rajewal say Centre should give up insistence on no-repeal

Tikait, 52, a former cop-turned-farmer leader, and Rajewal, 73, a veteran Bharatiya Kisan Union leader from Punjab, have emerged as the pre-eminent faces of the protest that has laid siege to Delhi’s key entry points and garnered international attention.

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Farm union leaders backtracked under pressure of radicals: Central minister

Union minister of state for commerce Som Parkash says farm union leaders should have taken moral responsibility for whatever happened at Red Fort on Republic Day and suspended their agitation

‘Did not let the pandemic delay or derail our government’s initiatives’: Jai Ram Thakur

Jai Ram Thakur, 55, faces the uphill task of keeping a bevy of poll promises, made tougher by an unrelenting Covid-19 rampage that has battered the state’s economy, already weighed down by a surging debt burden of ₹55,000 crore.

Didn’t let development derail despite economic stress, virus under control: Himachal chief minister Jai Ram Thakur

In an exclusive in-person interview with Executive Editor Ramesh Vinayak in Shimla, Thakur exuded an air of quiet confidence on dealing with the challenges ahead while answering a range of questions.

‘Gupkar can canvass freely’: J&K Governor Manoj Sinha

In an exclusive interview, Manoj Sinha, 61, laid out the political road map for the UT and detailed security arrangements for the district development council (DDC) elections, which begins on Saturday where six million electors across 20 districts will choose 280 representatives — 140 each in Jammu and Kashmir.

Freedom for politics, not anti-national activities: J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha

In an exclusive interview at the Raj Bhawan in Jammu, Sinha spoke on a range of issues, including the security dynamics, the Gupkar alliance, the Roshni land scam, and a road map on economic revival

Farm laws violate federalism, will fight them out legally: Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh

Speaking of the farmers’ protests, the Punjab Chief Minister says he doesn’t have to tell people to go out and agitate. When somebody doesn’t have food to feed his children, he will be protesting on his own.

Amarinder okay with Sidhu back as power minister, not Punjab Congress chief

Responding to the party high command’s fresh overtures to mollify a sulking Navjot Singh Sidhu and speculation of his appointment as state Congress chief in place of Sunil Jakhar, he said: “Why should somebody who joined the Congress three years ago become the president in place of Jakhar who has spent his life in the party?”

Akalis quit NDA over farm bills

All leaders at the SAD’s emergency core committee meet late on Saturday were unanimous in deciding that the party can no longer be part of the NDA, its president Sukhbir Singh Badal said.

Snapping over two-decades-long ties, SAD pulls out of NDA over farm bills

The decision was taken at a late-night emergency meeting of the party core committee, the apex decision-making body of the SAD, presided over by party chief Sukhbir Singh Badal.

Kashmir poised for a saffron surge

The state-of-the-art Spice Park at Dusoo in the saffron hub of Pulwama will put the flowers through a cold chain for scientific drying, processing and grading before helping farmers e-trade their GI-tagged produce this season

Ultra-nationalists call us separatists; treated as nationalists in J-K: Omar Abdullah

The father-son duo, both former chief ministers and the second and third generations of Kashmir’s formidable Abdullah dynasty, is actively galvanising dormant cadres.

‘Will contest Article 370 move legally, democratically’: Farooq and Omar Abdullah

The two leaders, in perhaps their first joint interview, said they rejected the Union government’s constituency delimitation exercise and domicile laws as efforts to change the demography of the Valley.

Jammu and Kashmir’s elected legislature will happen at the right time: Lt Guv GC Murmu

GC Murmu’s next challenges are daunting as he wades into deeper waters to steady the volatile security situation in Jammu and Kashmir

Elected legislature will happen at the right time: Murmu

There is President’s Rule and the legislative assembly is dissolved, obviously there is some pause…some disruption. The parties’ activity as elected representatives is not there. But it is not true that there is complete absence of political activity, he said.

‘Intrusion can’t be compared to Kargil, unless it escalates’: General VP Malik

Former chief of army staff General Ved Prakash Malik says Xi want to retake territories China believes it had controlled earlier.

‘LAC holds no sanctity for Chinese army’, says General Ved Prakash Malik

As New Delhi weighs its response, a defining marker of the Ladakh face-off, according to General Ved Prakash Malik, former chief of the Indian army, is that the military-level engagement on the long-contested Line of Actual Control, premised on a series of bilateral agreements and protocols, has ceased to be a dispute resolution mechanism.

Security situation in Kashmir stable but fragile: Lt Gen B S Raju

Militant leadership void in Kashmir, Pak desperate, says Lt-Gen BS Raju

In an exclusive interview , Lt-Gen BS Raju, General Officer Commanding of Srinagar-based 15th Corps, dwelt on the current situation and security challenges in the Valley.