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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NEW YORK: Hours after Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran khan raised the Kashmir issue at the 75th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Friday, India responded quickly to Khan’s comments and asked the United Nations for the floor to exercise the right of reply in response to Pakistan’s statements. Indian …
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GENEVA: India again gave an adequate response to Pakistan at the 45th meeting of the Human Rights Council in the United Nations on Friday saying the world does not need lessons on human rights from a country that has been known as a “hotbed and epicenter of terrorism.” At the …
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SRINAGAR: DNA samples from three men who died in an alleged fake encounter with the military in the Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir in July matched their Rajouri families, a senior police officer said on Friday. When asked if the three men were actually workers, as their families claimed, …
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