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Observing that preventive detention is a serious invasion of personal liberty and all safeguards allowed under law must be adhered to, the Supreme Court on Friday held that unreasonable delay between getting a proposal and passing an order for detention would make the order invalid. from Times of India https://ift.tt/3fyZwLi via IFTTT

Lance Armstrong said he'd apologise to the man he sued for reporting on his doping from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/gWYnJZy

The four-month monsoon season officially ended on Friday with the country recording "above normal" rainfall at 6% higher than the long period average. However, skewed distribution in the crucial July-August period left large rain deficits in the Gangetic plains, leading to about 1% decline in the overall acreage of kharif (summer sown) crops as compared to last year. from Times of India https://ift.tt/wnAUeSu via IFTTT

Researchers hope to learn more about the species, found in a Salzburg forest, before it goes into hibernation. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/DMza4HO

VTR director-cum-field director Nesamani K said the tiger is around three-years-old and is likely to have been forced away from the forest by other adult tigers in the VTR. He also claimed that the feeding habit of the tiger may also have changed owing to being near human habitation for long. from Times of India https://ift.tt/gN1vLDZ via IFTTT

Denmark and Greenland agree to investigate traumatising birth control procedures on Inuit Greenlanders. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/zHjxo7t

Iran stepped up pressure on celebrities and journalists on Thursday over the wave of women-led protests sparked by outrage over the death of Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by the Islamic republic's morality police. from Times of India https://ift.tt/4fIuekT via IFTTT

​Amid rising inflation and higher fixed deposit rates, the finance ministry on Thursday announced an increase of up to 30 basis points in interest rates on certain small savings products for the next quarter, marking the first increase in nine quarters. from Times of India https://ift.tt/BRi0MbV via IFTTT

The discount on the base fare that Air India (AI) offers to senior citizens and students will be slashed from 50% to 25% for all bookings done from September 29, said an internal circular by the airline on Thursday, reports Manju V. The carrier will, however, continue to extend its 50% sop on base fare to other categories. from Times of India https://ift.tt/Vw9nv4N via IFTTT

Uttarakhand is celebrating the appointment of Lt Gen Anil Chauhan as the new Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), and the fact that Chauhan and his predecessor, Gen Bipin Rawat, not only hail from the hill state but also come from the same district, Pauri Garhwal. from Times of India https://ift.tt/KAMRrdZ via IFTTT

As the race was thrown open, Congress was finalising a replacement candidate for Gehlot, with Mallikarjun Kharge, a senior Dalit leader, as the lead contender. from Times of India https://ift.tt/YQAdaL2 via IFTTT

India's Supreme Court says all women, including those not married, can get an abortion up to 24 weeks. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/l6xTeQJ

For the first time, the Supreme Court on Thursday acknowledged the concept of ‘marital rape’, and held ‘rape’ under the MTP Act includes a husband’s act of sexual assault committed on his wife. Though another bench is to hear pleas on marital rape next February, Justice D Y Chandrachud’s observation can be seen by many as a pointer to the trajectory SC may take while deciding the prickly issue next year. from Times of India https://ift.tt/3lqP6V0 via IFTTT

The army major doctor and her wife, a civilian doctor, are charged over plans to leak health information. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/oyevgr9

The star played the crystal instrument once owned by James Madison during one of her US concerts. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/mx9XAJ3

TOI has learned that SDPI was spared as it is a registered political party, swearing allegiance to the Constitution of India. An officer said that SDPI, as long as it indulges in democratic activities by legal means, may not warrant a ban or crackdown. inside flap from Times of India https://ift.tt/U8iaxOq via IFTTT

Denmark will wear "toned down" jerseys for the World Cup to protest against Qatar's human rights record and treatment of migrant workers. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/k7Tz9Mf

Yesterday a Court order was published which criticized late actress Jiah Khan's mother Rabia Khan for misusing the judicial machinery. The order stated that Rabia was trying to protract the trial by repeatedly filing applications in various courts despite the fact that the CBI had submitted a report confirming that Jiah's death was by suicide and not homicide, as alleged by Rabia. In light of this order, ETimes reached out to the main accused, Sooraj Pancholi's mother Zarina Wahab. Here is the conversation that took place... from Times of India https://ift.tt/FiGMVqd via IFTTT

Soldiers and heavy weapons are being moved in the northern Tigray region, near the border with Eritrea. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/SaDQsu7

A court in Bihar's Begusarai on Wednesday issued arrest warrants against Ekta Kapoor, film producer and director, and her mother Shobha Kapoor on charges of insulting soldiers and hurting the sentiments of their family members in her web series 'XXX' (Season-2). The court of judge Vikas Kumar issued the warrant on the basis of a complaint lodged by Shambhu Kumar, an ex-serviceman and a resident of Begusarai. from Times of India https://ift.tt/fHAQ1pX via IFTTT

The singer is accused of failing to pay €14.5m (£12.9m) in tax and could face eight years in jail. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/UXiYoG2

Sohagpur, a small village tucked away in Katra block of Bihar's Muzaffarpur's district, was in a celebratory mood on Tuesday. The cheering and dancing was to celebrate the achievement of Rakesh Kumar, 25, who has become the first in the village to land a government job since Independence, reports Manoj Chaurasia. from Times of India https://ift.tt/qjaS5RX via IFTTT

The jail administration in Uttarakhand's Haldwani has come up with a unique idea to help people ward off "bad karma" - for a nominal fee of Rs 500 per night in prison. from Times of India https://ift.tt/O6ygbaw via IFTTT

Tuesday's streaming was smooth and glitch free, the credit for which goes to Justice D Y Chandrachud under whose leadership the e-committee of the Supreme Court has been striving hard to bring reform in the judicial sector by adoption of new technologies and the live streaming is one of them. from Times of India https://ift.tt/iIWCAn6 via IFTTT

The widespread post-harvest practice of burning of paddy-crop stubbles in Punjab and Haryana is a major contributor to air pollution in north India in October and November. from Times of India https://ift.tt/khc64Sq via IFTTT

Traffic is queuing at the Georgian border after President Putin ordered a "partial mobilisation". from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/Ik96QjU

Delhi's PM10 level reduced from 241g/m3 in 2017 to 196 g/m3 in 2021-22. Similarly, the PM10 level in Mumbai reduced from 151g/m3 in 2017 to 106 g/m3 in 2021-22 whereas it reduced from 119 g/m3 in 2017 to 105 g/m3 in Kolkata in 2021-22. from Times of India https://ift.tt/zch6m0O via IFTTT

Hilaree Nelson appeared to fall into a 2,000ft gap in the ice descending the world's eighth tallest peak. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/A3F9gD6

From being the ultimate loyalist and putative national president, Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot, in the matter of a day, went to being a rebel who defied the leadership. His red line that antagonist Sachin Pilot could not be his replacement triggered a crisis because Congress did not believe that a mild Gandhian who untiringly swears loyalty to the brass could challenge its authority. Stay with TOI for live updates -- from Times of India https://ift.tt/Fbz9H02 via IFTTT

Former J&K CM Ghulam Nabi Azad launched his Democratic Azad Party with a nod to the "ideals of Mahatma Gandhi" in Jammu on Monday, exactly a month to the day he quit Congress with a critique of how the grand old party he had been part of for five decades "reached the point of no return". from Times of India https://ift.tt/8A2DXnT via IFTTT

Protests against Russia's mobilisation plan continue, as Russia concedes errors have been made. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/8Ldbp93

Giorgia Meloni aims to be Italy's first female PM and vehemently rejects any link to fascism. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/kIHFJNq

Popular Front of India (PFI) officebearers, many of whom have been in detention, used Abu Dhabi’s Darbar restaurant as the den for all hawala transactions and their illegal transfer to India, ED has said. This is contrary to the claims made by PFI that most of the Rs 120 crore it had received came through petty cash donations in India. from Times of India https://ift.tt/rG4noJS via IFTTT

Giorgia Meloni is on course to become Italy's first female PM, exit polls say. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/cB04hl2

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Magnus Carlsen says he wants cheating taken "seriously" as he vows to issue a statement within days. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/0hG6b2T

India can scale up production of the indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft to meet operational requirements and export orders, defence ministry officials said. The single-engine Tejas fighter is already the frontrunner to bag a Malaysian order for 18 light twin-seat fighter trainers despite strong competition from Chinese JF-17, South Korean FA-50 and Russian MiG-35 and Yak-130 jets. from Times of India https://ift.tt/wtLnBzE via IFTTT

The minister is under tighter police surveillance after a "serious threat", federal prosecutors say. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/INX3OeF

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Two migrant labourers were shot at and injured by terrorists in Kharbhatpora locality of Ratnipora in South Kashmir's Pulwama district on Saturday evening. from Times of India https://ift.tt/DL8znxT via IFTTT

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The launch of the American space agency's big new Moon rocket is being delayed for the third time. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/hRtfWIJ

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. from Times of India https://ift.tt/ScxsjuC via IFTTT

Over 700 people were arrested at protests across the country on Saturday, rights groups said. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/bhKFlyI

Magnus Carlsen's apparent accusation against Hans Niemann is the biggest chess scandal in years. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/AFrpgb2

The foreign ministry on Friday said that it has identified four companies involved in the job entrapment racket in Myanmar and is working on rescuing the Indians who are still stranded there. Several IT companies operate from Myawaddy, not far away from the IT SEZ area at Mae Sot, the main hub of the "slave labour" racket. from Times of India https://ift.tt/Tt1XEJ6 via IFTTT

The Enforcement Directorate has claimed that the Popular Front of India (PFI) had planned to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Patna on July 12 this year.. It was engaged in raising terror modules, collection of deadly weapons and explosives to simultaneously launch attacks on sensitive places and individuals in UP. from Times of India https://ift.tt/ckPsFeR via IFTTT

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China is using “coercive economic tools” to achieve its security aims in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) while also not adhering to international laws and displaying a lack of transparency in its ongoing efforts to establish overseas military bases, a senior US defence official said. from Times of India https://ift.tt/aIVunZJ via IFTTT

The boats carrying more than 100 people had set off from near the Lebanese port city of Tripoli. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/b8E9nVd

There are more than a lakh cases in district and taluka courts pending for over 30 years. With 41,210 such cases, Uttar Pradesh leads the list and is followed by Maharashtra with 23,483, West Bengal with 14,345 and Bihar with 11,713 cases. That’s a total of nearly 91,000 between just these four states. from Times of India https://ift.tt/MG78Q2N via IFTTT

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The govt is unwilling to accommodate Congress' request to let it retain the helmsmanship of the department-related standing committee (DRSC) on home affairs in Rajya Sabha. The decision to withdraw Congress' leadership of the DRSC on home affairs in the RS and IT and communications in LS is being done "as per the existing strength of the parties" and in light of its numbers in RS coming down since 2019, sources said. from Times of India https://ift.tt/DTKC4Zg via IFTTT

A child can be heard crying 'Daddy, goodbye' in a video shared on Russian social media from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/3DkIYqr

Christiane Amanpour refuses to cover her hair for an interview with Iran's leader in New York. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/JDfOCIZ

Centre Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the CBI inquiry into the 'Radia tapes' conversations revealed no criminality. This amounted to giving a clean chit to corporate lobbyist Niira Radia, whose intercepted telephonic conversations had purportedly ranged from fixing individual problems to appointment of ministers in the Cabinet to dictating journalists what is to be written. from Times of India https://ift.tt/2Wrl5ov via IFTTT

Justifying 10% quota for Economically Weaker Sections belonging to general class, the Centre on Wednesday contended that it is a constitutional obligation to extend helping hands to the poor and it is duty of the government to fulfil their aspirations who are not getting opportunity because of their economic status. from Times of India https://ift.tt/AaXlQEn via IFTTT

A photo of Hindu Mahasabha founder Vinayak Damodar Savarkar appeared on a banner at Athani near Kochi for the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi, landing Congress in a spot on Wednesday as it faced a howl of taunts on social media and from BJP and CPM for the faux pas. The banner featuring freedom fighters was put up by a group from the Chengamanad panchayat. from Times of India https://ift.tt/XpL2ljC via IFTTT

Mahsa Amin's death in police custody has sparked a wave of protest across Iran. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/63H5UdD

Nine people are said to have been killed in unrest triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/oDe7fMN

The US unveils another sharp rate rise as it fights to bring soaring prices under control. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/lqbjVEz

Permanent poles to hoist the Indian Tricolour should be installed outside all tourist destinations as well as starred hotels and they should also display prominently the branding of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, Union minister for tourism G Kishan Reddy said at the conclusion of the three-day national conference of state tourism ministers in Dharamshala on Tuesday. from Times of India https://ift.tt/HGxwzeU via IFTTT

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Gujarati film 'Last Film Show' ('Chhello Show') is India’s official entry to the Best International Feature Film category of the 95th Academy Awards. The announcement has surprised one and all. There was a strong undercurrent in the country that 'The Kashmir Files' or 'RRR' will make it. from Times of India https://ift.tt/wTrJQsq via IFTTT

From principals to teachers, government schools in the city are facing an acute shortage of manpower, according to Directorate of Education (DoE) data. Of a total of 950 sanctioned posts for principals, only 154 have been filled while 796, or 83.7%, are lying vacant. Most of the schools are being run by vice-principals. Even in the case of vice-principals, of 1,670 sanctioned posts, 565 (about 34%) lie unfilled. from Times of India https://ift.tt/DKRV3xd via IFTTT

Ukraine's occupied regions announce referendum plans and an ex-detainee accuses Russia of torture. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/3UbjGwZ

Despite the troop disengagement at a ‘friction point’ in eastern Ladakh earlier this month, the overall threat from China has not receded in any way and it is fast extending to other domains in addition to the land borders, the country’s military brass warned on Tuesday. from Times of India https://ift.tt/6ZSWinA via IFTTT

The road transport ministry has put draft standards for rear seatbelt reminders, which would be a mandatory feature in all new cars in the next six months. As per the proposed automotive standard, the audio seatbelt reminder will alert the driver and occupants even if any passenger, including on the rear seat, removes the safety-belt buckle later. from Times of India https://ift.tt/Pzsg8KD via IFTTT

India on Monday ruled out any negotiations at the cost of food security and asked the global community to keep the interests of farmers, indigenous communities and tribal population in mind while contemplating any amendment or revision to international treaties. from Times of India https://ift.tt/tsRqXyI via IFTTT

Congress pradesh committees in three more states — Maharashtra, TN and Bihar — passed “unanimous” resolutions on Monday backing Rahul Gandhi for the post of party president, adding heft to a campaign that started in contender Ashok Gehlot’s backyard, Rajasthan, over the weekend and spread to Chhattisgarh and Gujarat. from Times of India https://ift.tt/DTHugXN via IFTTT

More than 300 Indians, including at least 60 from Tamil Nadu, have been held hostage by a gang at Myawaddy in Myanmar where they are forced to do cybercrime activities, multiple sources told TOI. People from some other countries were also being held by the racket. The victims are held captive in the Myawaddy region which is not under the control of the Myanmar government and is dominated by ethnic armed groups. from Times of India https://ift.tt/S7UeFYm via IFTTT

Prosecutors last week asked the court to vacate the conviction and release Syed pending a retrial. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/F4dfWu9

The 7.6 magnitude quake hit Mexico as the country marked the 2017 and 1985 shocks left thousands dead. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/bWfBYZF

Britain and the world said a final goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II at a state funeral on Monday that drew presidents and kings, princes and prime ministers — and crowds who massed along the streets of London to honour a monarch whose 70-year reign defined an age. from Times of India https://ift.tt/lJsxB6V via IFTTT

Sherri Papini went missing in 2016. She pleaded guilty to staging her kidnapping earlier this year. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/I7lHL6c

Experts call the mosaic one of the greatest archaeological treasures ever found in Gaza. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/MEIQ40b

With a total of $968 million in loans in four months of 2022, India has emerged as Sri Lanka’s largest bilateral lender, overtaking China in the process, a media report said. In the past five years from 2017-2021, China has been the largest bilateral lender to Sri Lanka as China disbursed $947 million, out of which $809 million was obtained as market borrowings from the China Development Bank. from Times of India https://ift.tt/zYIeFGR via IFTTT

The US island's population of 3.3 million loses electricity as Hurricane Fiona makes landfall. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/CTA0Gex

At the first national convention of elected representatives of AAP held here, party national convenor and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal set the pitch for the 2024 general elections, making the Gujarat assembly polls later this year the focus of his outreach and indicating that the party had no plans yet to join an opposition alliance to counter BJP. from Times of India https://ift.tt/NlYZhjI via IFTTT

The audience at Buckingham Palace took place after Olena Zelenska saw the Queen lying in state. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/E94K0eQ

Gross direct tax collections rose 30% to a little under Rs 8.4 lakh crore during the fiscal year up to September 17, when the second instalment of advance tax had been paid. The current growth rate is more than twice the asking rate to meet the full year direct tax target of Rs 14.2 lakh crore. With around a fortnight to go for the half year of FY23 to end, direct tax collections are estimated at around 58% of the full year target. from Times of India https://ift.tt/gBOJcK2 via IFTTT

Electricity from the national grid is being directly received at the embattled Zaporizhzhia site. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2UwWiDQ

With a week to go for the start of the nomination process for the Congress president’s election, the party’s Rajasthan unit passed a resolution that Rahul Gandhi should become the AICC president. The resolution was passed in a meeting attended by the PCC delegates who vote in the President’s election, including chief minister Ashok Gehlot (who proposed the resolution), AICC state in-charge Ajay Maken, senior leaders and Sachin Pilot. from Times of India https://ift.tt/nI4bLFM via IFTTT

In an unusual and conditional order, the Bombay HC permitted a woman to medically terminate her 26 weeks pregnancy only if the doctors confirm that the baby may not be born alive after the procedure. “In case the doctors are of the opinion that the baby may not be born alive at the time of terminating pregnancy, the petitioner is permitted to terminate the pregnancy,” the bench directed on Friday. from Times of India https://ift.tt/XQLAuaB via IFTTT

Protests rage after an end to government subsidies sends fuel prices soaring. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/aF1AeqN

The Union ministry of finance has revised the procedure for flow of funds for research under various Central sectoral schemes. The ministry “examined” the issue that earlier mandated that STEM researchers must open a zero-balance account for every project and on Friday reversed its March 2022 order. from Times of India https://ift.tt/Oy1Lmdl via IFTTT

Seven decades after the last cheetah was hunted to extinction in India, its cousins from Africa are here to take their spot in the Indian sun. On Saturday, PM Modi operated a lever to open a gate and release eight cheetahs into a special enclosure. Jet-lagged after a 9,000-km overnight flight from Namibia to Gwalior, and then to the Kuno helipad, the cheetahs looked at their new surroundings a bit tentatively at first, but were soon sprinting about. from Times of India https://ift.tt/2Rpi1wd via IFTTT

A hacker was apparently able to gain access to the company's internal systems. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/HzRALnC

The city corporation authorities on Friday morning demolished the controversial bus waiting shed in front of the CET at Sreekaryam where students had protested — by sitting on each other’s laps — against the residents who damaged the shed in an apparent attempt to stop boys and girls from being there together. from Times of India https://ift.tt/gaXi8zL via IFTTT

Fighting regularly flares up in border disputes between the two Central Asian states. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/NI6isoq

Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for deepening cooperation and mutual trust among SCO member-states at the summit in Samarkand on Friday, urging the Eurasian security group to work together to develop reliable, resilient, and diversified supply chains in the region at a time when the pandemic and Ukraine conflict had caused an “unprecedented food and energy crisis". from Times of India https://ift.tt/8juArI7 via IFTTT

Thousands have been sent from Republican states amid an escalating political row in the US. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/cH2gGw3

After a split verdict by the Delhi high court on whether marital rape could be brought within the ambit of the offence of rape, the Supreme Court on Friday decided to examine the issue and sought a response from the Centre. A bench of Justices Rajiv Shakdher and C Hari Shankar of the had HC differed in their reading of the exception under IPC Section 375 that shields husbands from a rape charge by wives. from Times of India https://ift.tt/rCG5LT0 via IFTTT

In his first public comments about Ukraine's recent successes, Putin says he is in "no hurry". from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/fp0FINA

After Chief Justice U U Lalit took charge and introduced a new system for listing of cases, the Supreme Court witnessed record performance in terms of deciding cases and in the last 13 working days, 5,200 cases were disposed of in comparison to 1,135 fresh cases being filed in the apex court that means that pendency had reduced by over 4,000 during this short span of time. from Times of India https://ift.tt/KhGJ49W via IFTTT

The Union government on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that Indian students pursuing MBBS in Ukraine whose studies were disrupted because of war and subsequent evacuation would not be admitted to medical colleges in India as that would amount to giving ‘backdoor entry’ to less meritorious students. from Times of India https://ift.tt/eP2N7dl via IFTTT

As the petitioners challenging the constitutional validity of the 103rd constitutional amendment entitling economically weaker sections (EWS) to reservation contended that economic status cannot be the basis for granting preferential treatment, the Supreme Court on Thursday said the Constitution is not a static but a living document and raised questions on why quota could not be given to the poor. from Times of India https://ift.tt/OX2u6mw via IFTTT

n the ongoing hearing of a batch of petitions challenging the Karnataka high court’s judgment that upheld the ban on wearing hijab by students in educational institutions, the Muslim side on Thursday told the Supreme Court that a girl student can be barred from wearing a miniskirt to an educational institution but not a hijab by applying the restrictions of public order, decency and morality to the freedom of expression under Article 19(2). from Times of India https://ift.tt/gvd1IOJ via IFTTT

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The aftermath of Russia's occupation described - while its prison inmates are wooed by mercenaries. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/UrlS7nx

PM Narendra Modi arrived in Samarkand late evening Thursday for the SCO summit where, as Modi said in his departure statement, he will exchange views on topical, regional and international issues, the expansion of SCO and on further deepening cooperation within the Organisation. from Times of India https://ift.tt/d4RoOca via IFTTT

For families hoping to buy a home, the moves compound affordability problems. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/7A0lDLF

The BBC's Orla Guerin finds Russian tanks and relieved residents in the freed city. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/niWjo3C

India may be forced to withdraw vacancies for enlisting soldiers from Nepal under its new Agnipath scheme in the ongoing recruitment cycle if the landlocked country does not take a decision in time, Army chief Gen Manoj Pande said on Wednesday. Such a move by India, if it comes to that, could have adverse implications for the already delicately poised relationship with Nepal, where China has systematically made huge strategic inroads over the years. from Times of India https://ift.tt/DBipwd1 via IFTTT

The nation's first elected female leader is narrowly defeated in a major shift for Sweden. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/DB74PvX

The unusual people-smuggling scam gave migrants fake diplomatic papers from St Kitts and Nevis. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/1Yxj5cF

Ukraine's president visits Izyum - while the German chancellor says President Putin does not think the invasion was a mistake. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/phZoj0S

Bringing back chilling memories of the Budaun dalit sisters' death case in 2014, two minor sisters, also dalit and aged 14 and 17 years, were found hanging from a tree outside a village in Nighasan area of UP's Lakhimpur Kheri district on Wednesday evening. from Times of India https://ift.tt/yIesM3T via IFTTT

As many as 12 people died while 18 others were injured after the minibus they were travelling in fell into a gorge at Sawjian Nallah in J&K’s Poonch district on Wednesday morning. Among the deceased were two minor boys, aged five and 14, as well as three women, two of them teenagers. “The accident took place near Barari Ballah Sawjian around 8.35am when the bus driver lost control of the vehicle near a bridge. The bus skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge,” said an official. from Times of India https://ift.tt/zuBnAMa via IFTTT

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Kenneth Starr became a household name for his investigation into Bill Clinton in the late 1990s. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/qr8ANx6

A fast-track court will hear from October 6 the maintainability of a suit seeking a ban on the entry of Muslims in Gyanvapi mosque, handing the complex to Hindus and permitting daily worship of Lord Aadi Visheshwar there. The suit was filed by Vishwa Vedic Sanatan Sangh (VVVS) in May, with the organisation’s chief Jitendra Singh Visen making his wife Kiran Singh the plaintiff. from Times of India https://ift.tt/qsIeliD via IFTTT

Financial markets sink as the costs of food, housing and medical care rise more than expected. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/KQJdNRi

Satish Chandra Verma, a senior IPS officer who had assisted the CBI in its investigation into the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan in Gujarat, has approached the Supreme Court challenging the Union home ministry's decision, taken on August 30, to dismiss him a month before his scheduled retirement on September 30. from Times of India https://ift.tt/yhwgaGe via IFTTT

CBI sleuths on Tuesday conducted searches at 36 locations across the country, including in Jammu & Kashmir, in an ongoing investigation related to recruitment of sub-inspectors in J&K Police. According to police sources, searches were carried out in Jammu, Srinagar (both in J&K), Karnal, Mahendergarh, Rewari (in Haryana), Gandhinagar (Gujarat), Delhi, Ghaziabad (UP) and Bangalore (Karnataka), among other places. from Times of India https://ift.tt/xvZKdAi via IFTTT

India called Sri Lanka out at UNHRC on Monday for lack of “measurable progress” on the latter’s commitments for a political solution to the ethnic Tamil minority issue through “full implementation of the 13th Amendment of the Constitution”. The government urged Sri Lanka to take immediate and credible action to fulfil its commitments. from Times of India https://ift.tt/LGoczyg via IFTTT

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