Doublespeak

India has strongly condemned the countries that use their veto powers to block evidence-based terrorist listings at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and said the practice is uncalled for.

The member of the Palestinian Legislative Council Mustafa Barghouti said Israel is committing genocide against innocent civilians in Gaza.

India has told the UN Security Council that blocking evidence-based proposals for blacklisting globally sanctioned terrorists without giving justifications is uncalled for and "smacks of doublespeak", a thinly-veiled reference to China and Pakistan.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused the Centre of "doublespeak" over the reports of an increase in trade deficit with China and dubbed the "made in India'' slogan as "jumla" (rhetoric).

Russia's government on Friday declared two more popular media outlets "foreign agents", pressing ahead with a crackdown on dissent and freedom of expression.

West Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Friday charged the TMC government with "doublespeak", as he claimed that the state government, which had targeted the Centre over PSU divestment, is now selling off profitable units.

Accused of doublespeak in its attack on the BJP government at the centre for spending crores on remodelling New Delhi's VIP zone in the middle of the coronavirus crisis, the Congress-led government in Chhattisgarh has put its projects on hold.

Congress's Rahul Gandhi celebrated Pongal in poll-bound Tamil Nadu today with a call to Tamil sentiments. "I have come here to give a message to those who think that they can run roughshod over Tamil people, can push aside Tamil language and Tamil culture," he said at an event of Jallikattu, the state's traditional bull taming sport.

Accusing the Union government of "doublespeak" over lockdown enforcement, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday came down heavily on the BJP-led Centre for its decision to resume passenger train services.

The government today turned up the pressure on Pakistan over its duplicity, denial and total inaction over the Jaish-e-Mohammed or JeM, which was responsible for the Pulwama terror attack. In a detailed, 45-minute press briefing, the Ministry of External Affairs urged Pakistan and its Prime Minister Imran Khan to "move beyond mere words, and take c...

Documents accessed by NDTV suggest that the BJP and the Congress, locked in a political battle over the demand for religion status to Karnataka's Lingayat community, may be guilty of double standards.

Stung by criticism that he allowed the police an unprecedented free run on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus, Vice Chancellor Jagadesh Kumar held a press conference on Monday to put out a strong disclaimer.

The arrest and eventual resignation of Delhi's law minister Jitender Singh Tomar, has angered the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) so much that they have levelled allegations of doublespeak against the Narendra Modi led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

One of the most articulate and outspoken voices from Pakistan, former diplomat Husain Haqqani, says Islamabad's doublespeak on terror continues despite the Peshawar shock, and what India can really do, in an interview to Nidhi Razdan on NDTV's 'Left, Right and Centre'. Read the full transcript of the interview.

As the land acquisition debates spill from Parliament into the streets of Delhi, the BJP put out a clarification on its Twitter page on the supposed benefits of the ordinance.

India has strongly condemned the countries that use their veto powers to block evidence-based terrorist listings at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and said the practice is uncalled for.

The member of the Palestinian Legislative Council Mustafa Barghouti said Israel is committing genocide against innocent civilians in Gaza.

India has told the UN Security Council that blocking evidence-based proposals for blacklisting globally sanctioned terrorists without giving justifications is uncalled for and "smacks of doublespeak", a thinly-veiled reference to China and Pakistan.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused the Centre of "doublespeak" over the reports of an increase in trade deficit with China and dubbed the "made in India'' slogan as "jumla" (rhetoric).

Russia's government on Friday declared two more popular media outlets "foreign agents", pressing ahead with a crackdown on dissent and freedom of expression.

West Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Friday charged the TMC government with "doublespeak", as he claimed that the state government, which had targeted the Centre over PSU divestment, is now selling off profitable units.

Accused of doublespeak in its attack on the BJP government at the centre for spending crores on remodelling New Delhi's VIP zone in the middle of the coronavirus crisis, the Congress-led government in Chhattisgarh has put its projects on hold.

Congress's Rahul Gandhi celebrated Pongal in poll-bound Tamil Nadu today with a call to Tamil sentiments. "I have come here to give a message to those who think that they can run roughshod over Tamil people, can push aside Tamil language and Tamil culture," he said at an event of Jallikattu, the state's traditional bull taming sport.

Accusing the Union government of "doublespeak" over lockdown enforcement, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday came down heavily on the BJP-led Centre for its decision to resume passenger train services.

The government today turned up the pressure on Pakistan over its duplicity, denial and total inaction over the Jaish-e-Mohammed or JeM, which was responsible for the Pulwama terror attack. In a detailed, 45-minute press briefing, the Ministry of External Affairs urged Pakistan and its Prime Minister Imran Khan to "move beyond mere words, and take c...

Documents accessed by NDTV suggest that the BJP and the Congress, locked in a political battle over the demand for religion status to Karnataka's Lingayat community, may be guilty of double standards.

Stung by criticism that he allowed the police an unprecedented free run on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus, Vice Chancellor Jagadesh Kumar held a press conference on Monday to put out a strong disclaimer.

The arrest and eventual resignation of Delhi's law minister Jitender Singh Tomar, has angered the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) so much that they have levelled allegations of doublespeak against the Narendra Modi led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

One of the most articulate and outspoken voices from Pakistan, former diplomat Husain Haqqani, says Islamabad's doublespeak on terror continues despite the Peshawar shock, and what India can really do, in an interview to Nidhi Razdan on NDTV's 'Left, Right and Centre'. Read the full transcript of the interview.

As the land acquisition debates spill from Parliament into the streets of Delhi, the BJP put out a clarification on its Twitter page on the supposed benefits of the ordinance.