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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Written by Raakhi Jagga | Ludhiana | Updated: September 26, 2020 8:18:31 am In the village of Bhuttiwala in Mukatsar. (Photo Express) At the forefront of several farmer protests in Punjab on Friday were some unusual numbers: two 20-year-old college students, a 33-year-old activist and a teenage girl who dropped …
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Written by Shubhajit Roy | New Delhi | September 26, 2020 4:35:10 am Modi is expected to speak at around 6.30pm IST Saturday (9am New York time) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday night and is likely to call for an “effective response …
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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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SHAMBHU: Thousands of farmers in India blocked roads and railways on Friday in a protest against new legislation they fear could pave the way for the government to stop buying grain at guaranteed prices, leaving them at the mercy of private buyers. The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has …
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NEW DELHI: Bihar’s three-phase elections will take place on October 28, November 3 and November 7 in what will be the first large-scale elections in the country since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic . On Friday, the Election Commission announced strict Covid-19 protocols for parties and voters to ensure …
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