China, a veto-wielding permanent member of the security council, has repeatedly put holds on listing proposals by India, the US and other allies to blacklist Pakistan-based terrorists under the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions regime of the council.
Jaishankar wrapped up the New York leg of his visit to the US as he addressed the high-level UN general assembly session on Saturday, concluding a hectic week of whirlwind diplomatic engagements during which he met over 100 of his counterparts from around the world and held several bilateral and multilateral meetings.
Masked supporters of PFI unleashed a «planned violent guerrilla strike» during Friday's statewide protest called by the outfit, Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Saturday. An NIA special court in Kochi sent 11 PFI functionaries to the central agency's custody till September 30. UP Police's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) Saturday arrested six members of PFI from Varanasi and Meerut under UAPA.
Two migrant labourers were shot at and injured by terrorists in Kharbhatpora locality of Ratnipora in South Kashmir's Pulwama district on Saturday evening.
Rajasthan CLP will meet on Sunday, in what appears to be an exercise to pick the successor of CM Ashok Gehlot, the putative AICC president. The core issue is if Gehlot will have to relinquish the CM’s post, and if Sachin Pilot will replace him. Pilot is also the choice of the leadership. But the party has to negotiate the CM’s preference, and the legislature party in which Gehlot has an absolute support.
The CBI on Saturday filed two FIRs and conducted pan-India raids at 59 locations in 21 states on the basis of inputs given by the Interpol's units in New Zealand and Singapore regarding online circulation and distribution of child sexual abuse material. The raids were carried out after around 75 individuals were traced and identified using internet protocol details records analysis of their devices.
The home minister reviewed the issues while taking a review meeting of India's all three border guarding forces-- Border Security Force (BSF), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)-- at Bihar' Kishanganj district during his two-day visit to the state.
A Congress legislative party meeting will be held on Sunday in Jaipur at Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot's residence. Gehlot is a frontrunner to become the next Congress president. However, the party's 'one-man, one-post' rule will not allow him to hold both posts. Sachin Pilot is scene as a possible candidate to replace Gehlot.
BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty on Saturday claimed that 21 TMC MLAs of West Bengal are in touch with him. Addressing a press conference, the Bollywood star who joined the BJP ahead of last year's assembly elections said he stood by what he said in July -- 38 MLAs of the ruling TMC are in touch with the opposition party, and of them, 21 are directly in contact with him.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the rise in fuel and cooking gas prices in the country, and said the BJP and RSS were spreading hate and violence to distract the people from such burning issues.
India today envisions itself as a developed country by 2047, the 100th year of its independence, and dreams of digitising its most remote villages and landing on the moon, perhaps even digitising it, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday.
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday arrested former Mumbai Police commissioner Sanjay Pandey in connection to an alleged case of illegal phone tapping on National Stock Exchange (NSE) employees. A Delhi court has also granted 4-day CBI remand of Sanjay Pandey saying that the central investigating agency has sufficient grounds to proceed with the probe.
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday arrested former Mumbai Police commissioner Sanjay Pandey in connection to an alleged case of illegal phone tapping on National Stock Exchange (NSE) employees. A Delhi court has also granted 4-day CBI remand of Sanjay Pandey saying that the central investigating agency has sufficient grounds to proceed with the probe.
