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SC comes down heavily on honour killings
The Supreme Court on Friday said it would not take “honour killing” lightly and sought a response from the Uttar Pradesh government on a plea of a woman seeking cancellation of bail of her uncle, who had allegedly conspired in the killing of her husband last year over inter-caste...
Indian diesel arrives in Lanka; tough laws against rioting
A ship carrying 40,000 tonnes of diesel under a $1 billion credit line given to Sri Lanka by India has reached the island nation. The fuel will be distributed across Sri Lanka this evening. The nation of 22 million people is in the grips of its worst downturn since...
Australia-India trade deal to open ‘biggest economic doors’
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said a trade agreement with India due to be signed on Saturday represented “one of the biggest economic doors there is to open in the world today”. Morrison is expected to call a general election within days, and has been eager to secure the...
Late-night protest near Lanka President’s home
People in Sri Lankan capital Colombo, suffering for weeks under a terrible economic crisis, erupted in protest late this evening. More than 2000 people held a protest march in the Lankan capital near the President’s house demanding that he step down, and clashed with the police. The paramilitary police...
Cong loses Assam RS seat to BJP after MLA ‘wastes’ vote
The Congress has lost a Rajya Sabha seat to the BJP in Assam, where elections to two seats in the upper house of parliament took place today. The BJP won the other seat unopposed. The vote count for the Congress-led opposition’s candidate went down with the Congress suspending an...
US denies Imran Khan’s foreign conspiracy charge
The United States on Thursday rejected insinuations made by Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan regarding Washington’s role in an alleged “foreign conspiracy” to oust him from power. “There is no truth to these allegations. We are closely following developments in Pakistan. We respect and support Pakistan’s constitutional process and...
US says India’s Russia talks ‘deeply disappointing’
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is travelling to Delhi today for talks. The U.S. and Australia criticized India for considering a Russian proposal that would undermine sanctions imposed by America and its allies, showing a deepening rift between the emerging security partners as Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov traveled to...
UK foreign minister in Delhi for Ukraine diplomatic push
British foreign minister Liz Truss will visit India on Thursday as part of a “wider diplomatic push” on the war in Ukraine, her office said, a trip which coincides with her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov travelling to the country. India has frustrated Western allies by refusing to condemn Russia’s...
Shivpal meets Yogi after fall-out with Akhilesh
Shivpal Yadav, the estranged uncle of Akhilesh Yadav who had allied himself with the Samajwadi Party ahead of the polls, today met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for what he described as a “courtesy visit”. The two had a 30-minute meeting, sources said. Though no details of the discussions were...
Prashant Kishor to work for Cong in Gujarat election
Poll strategist Prashant Kishor is in talks with Congress, media reports say. Kishor is expected to get a ‘major role’ in the Gujarat Elections, the reports quoted Congress sources as saying. In the past, Prashant Kishor has worked with the Congress party for the 2017 Punjab Assembly Election. While the...
After hijab, it is turn of halal in Karnataka
With some right wing groups now giving a call to boycott ‘Halal’ meat, BJP national general secretary CT Ravi likened Halal food with ‘economic jehad’. For the past few days, there was a flurry of messages on social media appealing to Hindus to shun Halal meat, especially after Ugadi,...
Akhilesh sacks members for defying party in Council poll
Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav expelled party members including former MLC Kailash Singh, former District Panchayat President of Ghazipur Vijay Yadav and others for opposing the party during the MLC election in Ghazipur. Meanwhile, Yadav on Tuesday held a meeting with leaders of party allies Apna Dal (K), Suheldev...
Five shot dead in Tel Aviv suburb, IS claims responsibility
A suspected Arab gunman killed at least five people in a Tel Aviv suburb on Tuesday before he was fatally shot, the national ambulance service said, in the latest of a string of deadly attacks in Israel. Amateur video broadcast on Israeli television stations showed a man dressed in...
Leaders claim participation of 20 cr workers in Bharat bandh
The two-day nationwide strike, called for by a joint forum of central trade unions to protest against central government policies has evoked mixed response, with some states like Kerala reporting complete shutdown while life in the metros went on without much disruption. Amarjeet Kaur, All Indian Trade Union Congress...
Assam CM slams Kejriwal over Kashmir Files remarks
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday slammed his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal over his remarks on ‘The Kashmir Files’ and asked him not to be “anti-Hindu” stating the latter has no right to humiliate the society. Kejriwal, in his speech in the Delhi Assembly, had accused the...
Nitish Kumar sacks fisheries, animal husbandry minister
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday sacked Mukesh Sahani, the minister for fisheries and animal husbandry, from his cabinet, highly placed sources said here. They said the recommendation to this effect has been sent to the Governor following a “written submission” from ally BJP which had contended that...
Bharat Bandh on Monday-Tuesday to hit services
A joint forum of central trade unions has called for a nationwide strike on Monday and Tuesday to protest against Central government policies that affect workers. The banking sector will be joining the strike, the All India Bank Employees Association said on Facebook. The call for a nationwide strike...
Russian colonel reported killed by own troops
In fresh setbacks for the Russian assault on Ukraine, a top commander of the country was killed by his own “demoralised” men while a general was believed to have also died, reports have said. Western officials claim that seven Russian generals have so far been killed during the war...
