Jaishankar slams F-16 deal, teases Ukraine mediation
By Yashwant Raj
Washington, Sep 26 (IANS) India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has slammed the Biden administration's proposal to provide $450 million worth of spares and services for Pakistan's F-16s, saying no one is fooled by claims that these highly capable fighter aircraft are meant only for counter-terrorism operations.
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Editors Pick International 06:40 AM'We will liberate ourselves from a colonial mindset': Jaishankar declares
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Those politicising terrorism 'do so at their own peril', Jaishankar warns
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Illicit market size stood at Rs 2.6 lakh cr in 5 key sectors in 2019-20: FICCI report
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) The size of the illicit market in five key industries, namely household and personal goods, packaged foods, tobacco products, alcoholic beverages and mobile phones, stood at Rs 2,60,094 crore during 2019-20.
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G4 leaders, joined by others, renew calls for UNSC reforms
By Arul Louis
United Nations, Sep 21 (IANS) Presidents of three countries of the G4, supported by other leaders, have called for renewed efforts to reform the Security Council and make it more efficient and representative of today's world.
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Controversy as Carlsen quits Niemann game after one move; India's Arjun Erigaisi emerges leader
New York, Sep 20 (IANS) Magnus Carlsen courted controversy in the Julius Baer Generation Cup -- the seventh leg of the USD1.6 million Meltwater Champions Chess Tour -- on Monday as he sensationally quit his game with American star Hans Niemann after playing just one move.
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Pakistan caught in Imran and floods maelstrom
Islamabad, Sep 18 (IANS) Five months ago, with the tacit approval of the army, nearly all Opposition parties in Pakistan had unseated Prime Minister Imran Khan through a no-confidence motion in parliament. But many of them did not bargain for the political tsunami by the playboy - cricketer - turned politician when the country is in the grip of a natural calamity induced partly by climate change and partly by 75-years of bad governance.
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'Hijab is farz, courts not equipped to determine its essentiality', petitioners to SC
New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) The petitioners on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that according to the religious text, wearing of hijab was 'farz' (duty) and the courts were not equipped to determine its essentiality.
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Absence of specific law on hate speech, using IPC, RP Act & MCC to control it: EC to SC
New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has told the Supreme Court that hate speech has not been defined under any existing law in India and in absence of specific law on 'hate speech' and 'rumour mongering' during elections, the commission used Indian Penal Code (IPC) provisions and the Representation of People (RP) Act to ensure the political parties' members do not make statements to create disharmony between different sections of society.
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Gyanvapi case: Varanasi court rules in favour of Hindu petitioners
Varanasi, Sep 12 (IANS) The Varanasi court on Monday said that the Hindu petition for worship in Shringar Gauri was maintainable and the five Hindu women's plea seeking right to worship in the Gyanvapi complex will be heard.
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TN govt on alert over smuggling of ration rice to Kerala
Chennai, Sep 12 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Police are on a high alert over smuggling of ration rice to Kerala.
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Only legal loan apps to be hosted on app stores, says Centre
New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will prepare a "whitelist" of all the legal apps and the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology will ensure that only these "whitelist" apps are hosted on app stores.
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SC issues notice to Centre for timely, transparent appointments in CVC
New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Centre on a plea seeking timely and transparent filling of long-pending vacancies in the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) to ensure that the commission can effectively discharge its duties as an 'integrity institution'.
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'Celebrity leaders looting money', says Bengal minister, gets show-cause notice
Kolkata, Aug 29 (IANS) Three-time Trinamool Congress MLA and the West Bengal minister of state for consumers affairs department, Srikant Mahata has been censured and issued a show- cause by his party after a video went viral where he was seen questioning the credibility and morality of the celebrity leaders in the party.
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Senior citizens' 10-year legal fight gets closure with the fall of towers
New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) With the fall of India's one of the largest towers, a legal fight of over 10 years by senior citizens has come to an end on Sunday.
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Non-Indian leaders of US yoga business charged in multi-million tax fraud
By Arul Louis
New York, Aug 25 (IANS) US federal prosecutors have charged three non-Indians who ran a nationwide yoga business with a multi-million dollar tax fraud.
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India breaks streak of UN abstentions on Ukraine, votes in opposition to Russia (Ld)
By Arul Louis
United Nations, Aug 25 (IANS) Breaking its streak of abstentions on votes related to Ukraine, India has voted for a procedural matter that Russia opposed at the UN Security Council.
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T20 becoming like business for certain people, but don't see Test cricket going away: Stokes
By Niharika Raina
New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) In July, former India head coach Ravi Shastri had proposed that only the top-six teams should get to play Test cricket and that the sport can be spread to different countries via white-ball cricket.
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Oppn will resist voting rights to non-locals in J&K: Farooq Abdullah (Ld)
Srinagar, Aug 22 (IANS) Former chief minister and National Conference (NC) president, Dr. Farooq Abdullah said on Monday that the decision to give voting rights to non-locals in Jammu and Kashmir elections will be resisted by all the opposition political parties.
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Russia detains IS bomber plotting terror attack in India
Moscow, Aug 22 (IANS) Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said that it has detained an Islamic State (IS) suicide bomber who was plotting a terror attack in India, the media reported.
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Fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi's HCL House to be auctioned on Sep 23
By Quaid Najmi
Mumbai, Aug 19 (IANS) The Debt Recovery Tribunal-I (DRT-I) has ordered the auction of a prime property belonging to absconder diamantaire Nirav D. Modi in one of the cases filed by Punjab National Bank (PNB) to recover a part of their whopping dues of more than Rs 2,133-crore.
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Why has TRF become 'invisible enemy' for security forces in Kashmir
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) The Resistance Front (TRF) has, for the last three years, become the invisible enemy that issues threats to security men, political activists, alleged police informers and the so-closed 'collaborators of the Indian state in Kashmir'.
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With Aamir tanking, Akshay delivering 3rd dud, B'wood stares at an abyss
By Sourish Bhattacharyya
Mumbai, Aug 16 (IANS) After disaster struck the two Independence Day long weekend releases -- Aamir Khan's long-awaited, mega-hyped 'Laal Singh Chaddha' and the Akshay Kumar-starrer 'Raksha Bandhan' -- a wag commented that Bollywood has become like the Congress: it has only its past to live on and stares at a dim future, unless a miracle happens.
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Nehru will survive pettiness of BJP: Cong
New Delhi, Aug 14 (IANS) After the Karnataka government's advertisement missed mentioning about India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the Congress has come out strongly and said that "Nehru will survive such pettiness".
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As protests over corruption grow in Bengal, more Trinamool leaders use threatening language
Kolkata, Aug 14 (IANS) As protests on the issue of corruption are on the rise in West Bengal and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee being targeted in many cases, top leaders of Trinamool Congress have started losing control over the use of words against the protesters in public forums.
