GUWAHATI: China’s latest claim to Arunachal Pradesh by releasing a list of “standardised geographical names” for 11 places in the frontier state turns out to be a random naming of isolated forest tracts, nondescript peaks, non-existent rivers and town areas superficially bound together as part of Cona, Zayu and Medog counties in Nyingchi prefecture of Tibet. For instance, the coordinates of two...
DEHRADUN: The Joshimath Bachao Sangharsh Samitihas threatened to block traffic on April 27, the day the Badrinath yatra is scheduled to start, if their demands were not met."The situation in Joshimath is the same as it was two months ago. We demand complete scrapping of NTPC's under-construction Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project and the Helang bypass road," said Atul Sati,group's convenor, on Tuesday.The...
AYODHYA: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi received support from one of the priests of Ayodhya's Hanumangarhi temple, one of the most revered temples in the holy town, who offered him residence on the premises of the 10th-century temple.Mahant Sanjay Das of Hanumangarhi temple, who is the heir to the temple's head priest Mahant Gyan Das, said that the seers welcome Rahul Gandhi to the holy city and offer him...
A highly drug-resistant bacteria that was linked to eyedrops imported from India and that spread from person to person in a long-term care center in Connecticut, US, has prompted concerns that the strain could gain a foothold in US health care settings, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Specialists said the strain had not been previously detected in the US, and that it was...
In a move seen as a reiteration of its claim over Arunachal Pradesh, China has standardised the names of 11 places in the state, which it calls "Zangnan, the southern part of Tibet". The development comes just a week after India held a G20 meeting in Arunachal that China chose to skip.The names were released on Sunday by China's ministry of civil affairs in Chinese, Tibetan and Pinyin. This is in...
PILIBHIT: Security agency sleuths, who arrived in Pilibhit from Lucknow on Sunday to collect more information on the absconding Waris Punjab De leader Amritpal Singh and his aide Papalpreet Singh, found that CCTV footage up to the evening of March 25 at Mohanapur gurdwara "had gone missing", reports Keshav Agarwal. Joga Singh, a kar-sevak at the gurdwara, was arrested on March 30 after the recovery of...
KOLKATA: Bengal is taking a legal "diversion" to allow juvenile offenders charged with non-heinous offences be with parents while serving out their rehabilitation programme, instead of the typical practice of keeping young delinquents at a detention centre.The state started on Sunday "a multi-stakeholder consultation" with Unicef and West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) to...
India logged over 3,800 new Covid cases on Saturday, the highest daily tally in six months, as infections in the past seven days surged at the fastest rate since the third wave in January 2022. India recorded over 18,450 fresh cases in the past week (March 26-April 1), a 2.1x rise over the previous seven days’ tally of 8,781. The doubling time of cases has reduced to less than seven days. The last...
NEW DELHI: Reiterating that India's relationship with China is not normal and that tension persists along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), external affairs minister S Jaishankar on Sunday said that any military aggression has to be countered in a similar manner. "In 2020, even when Covid was going on, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had no hesitation in moving the Indian Army and Indian Air Force in very...
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Sunday gave a stern warning to pro-Khalistani elements, saying that India will not tolerate any disrespect towards its national flag."The days when India would have taken this lightly are behind us and this is not the India which will accept its national flag being pulled down by somebody," Jaishankar said at an event in Bengaluru.The remarks come in...
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