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 UNITED NATIONS - India on Monday told the UN that its offer of unconditional friendship to Pakistan was met with a series of betrayals in the form of cross-border terror attacks. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, speaking in Hindi at the United Nations General Assembly, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had extended the hand of friendship to Pakistan by inviting his counterpart Nawaz Sharif to his swearing-in ceremony...  NEW DELHI - Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday urged Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung to "reconsider" his order removing Krishna Saini as Chairperson of the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC). He also expressed his willingness to meet Jung to discuss the issue at Lt. Governor's convenience. Declaring DERC chief's appointment as void 'ab initio' after a period of six months may lead to...  RANCHI - Tribal leaders of Jharkhand have urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to keep his promise of not changing the land act in the state. "Addressing a rally in Dumka in December 2014, Prime Minister Modi had promised that the tribal land protection act would not be changed. Despite his promise, the Raghubar Das-led BJP government in the state has decided to make changes in the land acts by bringing an ordinance,"  ITANAGAR - The Congress suffered a major blow after it lost the Arunachal Pradesh government again on Friday when Chief Minister Pema Khandu and all its MLAs but one defected to the Peoples' Party of Arunachal (PPA), a BJP ally. Two independents, supporting the Khandu government, also joined the PPA -- a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led anti-Congress grouping of North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA).  NEW DELHI - The Yudh Abhyas 2016 joint military drill between India and the US, focused on anti-insurgency and anti-terrorist operations, got underway at Chaubattia in Uttarakhand on Thursday. Indian and US soldiers stood side by side in an impressive military parade that saw the unfurling of the national flags of both countries while their national anthems "Jana Gana Mana" and "The Star Spangled Banner" played, an official statement said.  NEW DELHI - A political blamegame began in the national capital on Tuesday as four deaths were reported due to chikungunya, with the ruling AAP blaming the Lt Governor and the municipal bodies for the rising mosquito-borne menace while the BJP asked for Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's resignation. Kejriwal, who is in Bengaluru, said on Tuesday that he has been left with no power even to "buy a pen" and that people...  SRINAGAR - With mobile and broadband services suspended on Monday, curfew to be re-imposed and few signs of any celebrations, the Kashmir Valley braced for a tense Eid on Tuesday with separatists calling for a march to the office of United Nations Military Observers Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) here. All mobile phone services, apart from BSNL's post-paid connections, were suspended across the valley on Monday,  PYONGYANG - North Korea on Friday said it "successfully" conducted a nuclear test, its fifth and the "most powerful" so far, evoking strong condemnation from the global powers including US, China and Russia. The North Korean Central TV Broadcasting Station said the country carried out a nuclear explosion test to check the capacity of a nuclear warhead and it will "continue to strengthen our capacity to bolster our nuclear force".  VIENTIANE - Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday advocated the strongest action against states that use terrorism as an instrument of state policy while outlining India's principled stand on the South China Sea issue. "We need to target not only the terrorists, but also their entire supporting ecosystem," Modi said while addressing the 11th East Asia Summit here, the premier forum of the Asia-Pacific region.  NEW DELHI - India's banking sector, mining, trade and transport were hard hit on Friday as a nationwide day-long strike by Left and Congress-affiliated trade unions in protest against the NDA central government's "anti-labour" policies, price rise and growing unemployment evoked an overall mixed response. An industry body estimated the loss at Rs 16,000-18,000 crore. The strike took the form of a total shutdown... |
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