LONDON: The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) issued on Wednesday a statement siding with Canada in the diplomatic firestorm that has erupted between Ottawa and New Delhi, saying India’s “cooperation with Canada’s legal process was the right next step”.The FCDO issued a strongly worded statement “on the ongoing Canadian investigation linked to the…
While sticking to his allegation that Indian agents killed pro-Khalistan terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau on Wednesday said that he lacked “evidentiary proof” but only had intelligence when he first went public with the accusations last year.Testifying before Foreign Interference Commission, he admitted Canada had not shared any evidence with India but…
A wildlife activist gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a snake and saved its life in Vadodara on Tuesday night. Yash Tadvi then handed over the chequered keelback snake to the forest department. Tadvi got a call from a resident on Waghodia road that a snake was lying dead. He reached the spot and realised that the…
In an extraordinary occurrence, nine women gave birth to twins within a 24-hour period – from 8am Tuesday to 8am Wednesday – at Burdwan Medical College and Hospital in Bengal. None of the pregnancies was conceived by assisted reproductive technology, reports Mohammad Asif. Of the 18 newborns, seven are male and 11 female. All the…
RAIPUR: A day after Chhattisgarh police arrested Kuldeep Sahu for the murder of the wife and daughter of a head constable, four more suspects – including NSUI district president Chandrakant Chaudhary – were arrested Wednesday. Though the bodies had been found nude, the medical investigation didn’t indicate any ‘initial signs of rape or sexual assault’,…
ISLAMABAD: External affairs minister S Jaishankar had “casual conversations’’ with both Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif and his counterpart Ishaq Dar over the past 2 days even though there was no formal bilateral meeting between the foreign ministers on the margins of the SCO heads of government summit in Islamabad, diplomatic sources said. The fact that…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau In a surprising admission, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed that his government had no concrete evidence when it initially accused India of being involved in the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a prominent Khalistani extremist. The revelation comes at a time of escalating tensions between India and Canada, raising…
NEW DELHI: BJP leader and Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday challenged Sharad Pawar, who remains the fulcrum of opposition in the state, to declare Maha Vikas Aghadi’s CM face for the November 20 assembly elections. On the issue of ruling Mahayuti‘s CM face, Fadnavis hinted at Shiv Sena‘s Eknath Shinde but evaded…
MUMBAI: During Maharashtra assembly elections, voters in Mumbai will be not be allowed to carry mobile phones inside the polling booths at the time of voting, said the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation commissioner and administrator Bhushan Gagrani on Wednesday. Elections for the 288-member Maharashtra legislative assembly will be conducted in a single phase on November 20,…
NEW DELHI: At least seven more flights received hoax threat messages on Wednesday, bringing the total number of affected airliners to nearly 20 in the past three days. An IndiGo Riyadh-Mumbai flight (6E 74) was diverted to Muscat on Wednesday, and its Mumbai-Delhi flight (6E 651) to Ahmedabad, while Akasa’s Delhi-Bengaluru flight (QP 1335) returned…
