New Delhi: India hosted the 11th meeting of the BIMSTEC Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (JWG-CTTC) in New Delhi September 28 and 29 with delegations from all member states in attendance, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Tuesday. "The 11th...
Kolkata: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Tuesday arrested three more persons from West Bengal for suspected terror links in connection with its probe into suspected terror links, taking the total number of arrests during the day to four. Earlier in the day, the central agency...
Kathmandu: Nepal is planning to import up to 1,100 MW of electricity from India during the upcoming dry season to meet peak domestic demand, as recent flash floods, landslides and heavy monsoon rains have damaged hydropower projects and temporarily reduced the country's generation capacity. The...
Kathmandu: At least 27 people have been killed in rain-induced disasters across Nepal since September 24, officials said Tuesday. Four people remain missing, and eight have been injured in incidents linked to heavy rainfall, including floods and landslides, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction...
Itanagar: An Assam Rifles havildar was killed, and four other personnel injured after heavily armed suspected militants ambushed a patrol party along the India-Myanmar border in Arunachal Pradesh’s Changlang district Tuesday, officials said. A police official in Itanagar said that the patrolling party of the...
New Delhi: The Congress Tuesday demanded the immediate removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, suspension of the SIR, restoration of over 13 crore names struck off from the electoral rolls and the resignation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for "match-fixing" polls. The Opposition party...
New Delhi: An FIR has been registered against AAP leaders Saurabh Bharadwaj and Jarnail Singh and several party workers for allegedly assaulting a Delhi Police head constable and obstructing him from discharging his duties, police sources said Tuesday. The incident allegedly took place Monday when...
Doha: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has held bilateral meetings with ministers from Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Jordan and Nepal on the sidelines of the AIIB annual meeting. On the first day of her visit to Qatar September 28, Sitharaman met her Saudi counterpart Mohammed Al-Jadaan who...
New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Tuesday called for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's immediate removal over alleged SIR "irregularities" and also demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi's resignation on moral grounds for "pressuring" the poll panel chief. In his opening address at the Congress Working...
New Delhi: Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to hear next week a petition which raised doubts over the decisions taken by the Election Commission of India led by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The matter was mentioned before a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and...
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After remaining deafeningly silent on a media report casting serious doubts about the fairness and functioning of the Election Commission...
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