CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal announced Saturday night his decision to break his 24-year alliance with BJP less than 10 days after he stepped down from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government with the resignation of Harsimrat Kaur Badal on the approval of three agro-marketing bills in Parliament. The alliance between SAD …
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NEW DELHI: Amid the border clash with China in eastern Ladakh, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday he said that it is an ongoing issue and that “we must have confidence in our armed forces and in their ability to secure our interests.” Jaishankar said that it is also necessary …
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MUMBAI: Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis and Shiv Sign MP Sanjay raut they met here on Saturday, sparking speculation in political circles, while the BJP denied that their discussion had any political aspect. Raut, whose strident anti-BJP stance on the power-sharing formula after last year’s state Assembly elections …
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UNITED NATIONS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked on Saturday how long India, the world’s largest democracy and home to 1.3 billion people, will be kept outside the decision-making structures of the United Nations, stating that reform in the responses, the processes, and in the very character of the global body …
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PUNE: Adar Poonawalla, executive director of the Serum Institute of India (SII), which is producing the possible coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford, asked on Saturday if the government will have 80 billion rupees available to buy and distribute the vaccine . “Quick question: will the government of …
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NEW DELHI: Spurred by the success of Ram Lalla Virajman’s 1989 civil lawsuit to obtain ownership of the disputed Ayodhya land in 2019, Srikrishna Virajman filed a civil lawsuit in a Mathura court on Friday seeking the property of a full 13.37 acres of Krishna Janmabhumi’s land and its disposal. …
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NEW DELHI: The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over in India and there is no room for “false optimism” as numbers are rising rapidly with the easing of restrictions creating an atmosphere of fatalism, The Lancet said in an editorial. “The epidemic in India is far from over, with a …
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UNITED NATIONS: The “only supreme glory” Pakistan has to show the world over the past seven decades is terrorism, ethnic cleansing, majority fundamentalism and clandestine nuclear trade, India said in a scathing response on Friday, criticizing the Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s speech “incessant spiel” and “poison” in the UN …
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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to deliver a virtual speech at the annual UN General Assembly on Saturday, official sources said. This year’s UN General Assembly is being held largely online due to the coronavirus pandemic. Most of the world’s leaders are delivering prerecorded speeches at the …
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NEW DELHI: After defending India at the OIC earlier this year, the Maldives again came to India’s rescue at the Saarc Foreign Ministers meeting on Thursday to help India block the proposal to hold the 19th Saarc summit in Pakistan. Islamabad is hosting the summit that was to take place …
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