ISLAMABAD: PM Li Qiang of China arrived in Islamabad Monday to a 21-gun salute and a security overdrive that included shutting schools and businesses in the capital city for three days as Pakistan pulled out all stops to avoid any safety slip-up during the first visit by a Chinese premier to the country in 11…
NEW DELHI: An Indian-Russian working group on cooperation in the Northern Sea Route held its first meeting in New Delhi on Oct 10, where it discussed polar navigation and joint projects in Arctic shipbuilding.The heads of the working group are Rajesh Kumar Sinha, deputy minister of ports, shipping and waterways, from the Indian side, and…
NEW DELHI: The African cheetahs brought to India as part of the world’s first intercontinental translocation of big cats will be released back into the wild in the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh in a phased manner starting October-end.Release from their enclosures into the wild will happen with a combo of one each of…
LUCKNOW: Fresh violence engulfed UP‘s Bahraich Monday morning during the funeral of Ram Gopal Mishra, a 22-year-old who was shot dead the day before in clashes between two communities over DJ music played during a Durga idol immersion in the Mahsi area.A large crowd gathered for Mishra’s last rites and went on the rampage, setting…
MUMBAI: The two suspects caught for the murder of former state minister and NCP politician Baba Siddique have told police that they had been instructed to eliminate his Congress MLA son Zeeshan, too, if he was spotted during the crime.During their preliminary interrogation, the duo, Dharmaraj Kashyap and Gurmail Singh, revealed the order was to…
NEW DELHI: Justin Trudeau‘s aggression towards India coincides with the Canadian Prime Minister’s sliding popularity ratings at home and growing dissent against him, which are being seen to have enhanced the need for him to woo the politically-significant Sikh community ahead of next year’s federal elections.Falling approval ratingsAmid complaints over rising cost of living, a…
A dramatic and unprecedented escalation in the year-long rift between India and Canada over the killing of pro-Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia in 2023 saw the former recalling high commissioner Sanjay Verma from Ottawa Monday after Canada alleged he and some other Indian diplomats were “persons of interest” in the murder.Several other…
RANCHI: Enforcement Directorate on Monday carried out raids at 23 locations across Ranchi and Chaibasa districts of poll-bound Jharkhand, targeting the relatives of a minister in the Hemant Soren cabinet and an IAS officer, among several others.ED did not issue any official statement on the raids, but sources in the agency said the searches were…
NEW DELHI: Yearly, up to 1,000 Indians in the age group of 18-30 years will now be able to work and holiday for a year in Australia. Matt Thistlethwaite, MP and Australian assistant minister for immigration, launched the Australian Working Holiday Maker programme here on Monday. India had officially joined this programme on Sept 16,…
MUMBAI: Earlier in June this year, Mumbai police crime branch had sent a request to Union home ministry seeking exemption in the Criminal Conspiracy Code (CrPC) 268 (1) case, seeking the custody of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi who has been threatening actor Salman Khan for a while. Bishnoi has been lodged in Sabarmati Jail for the…
