Launching his campaign for the Bihar assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday invoked the alleged reign of “crime” and ‘loot” during the 15-year rule of the RJD, as he sought people’s vote for the NDA to make sure the state’s continuous journey towards “development”. In his first rally within the state, Modi sought votes for an additional term of the NDA government under Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, saying he had been working with the JD(U) president just for the last three-four years which the state had seen much speedier development during this period. Kumar had returned to the…
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday held a virtual meeting with his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita, covering a range of key issues including ways to deal with threats of terrorism and climate change. The Ministry of External Affairs said Jaishankar and Bourita also discussed the respective national approach of India and Morocco to deal with the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic. It said Jaishankar thanked Bourita for the Moroccan government’s support in the repatriation of Indian nationals stranded in Morocco due to the suspension of international flights in the wake of the pandemic. Bourita, in turn, conveyed his government’s…
Pakistan might remain on the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as it has been unable to comply with six of the 27 points in the global watchdog’s action plan, a media report said on Wednesday. The Paris-based global watchdog for curbing terror financing and money laundering will hold its virtual plenary session from October 21 to 23. It will review Pakistan’s progress on the 27-point action plan. The FATF had placed Pakistan on the grey list in June 2018 and asked Islamabad to implement a plan of action to curb money laundering and terror financing by…
Just months after Independence, tribal militias backed by Pakistan had invaded the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir as part of the ‘Operation Gulmarg’ on 22 October, 1947 and unleashed havoc on unarmed men, women and children. The legislative assembly of the Union Territory observed the ‘Black Day’ to reminisce the fatal incident. The members of the assembly stood in silence as the Indian national anthem played in the background. Journalist Aditya Raj Kaul who hails from the erstwhile state tweeted, “This morning National Anthem in #Kashmir at the beginning of the event to mark 22nd October Black Day. This…
What started as a joke for a 24-year-old software engineer is today a legitimate website to track broken ice-cream machines in McDonald’s outlets throughout the US. Rashiq Zahid, a reverse engineer, one day visited McDonald’s in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin in the hopes to get some ice cream. When he tried ordering a sundae from the touchscreen kiosk, it showed no ice cream was available. He tried doing so from the McDonald’s app but was still out of luck. “I love poking around in different apps and just looking at the security features and the internal APIs,” Zahid told…
LG launched the K52 last month for European, Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern markets. The company is now bringing the smartphone to its home market although with a different moniker. Reportedly, it will be called the LG Q52 in South Korea. A slew of hands-on photos has leaked that suggests the similarity between specifications of Q52 and K52. Going by the leaked images, the LG Q52 might come with a quad-camera setup, comprising a 48MP primary camera, a 5MP ultrawide camera, a 2MP macro camera, and a 2MP depth-sensing camera. The triple LED flash is also the same design…
Legendary Indian cricketer Kapil Dev has suffered a heart attack and is said to be undergoing angioplasty surgery at a hospital in New Delhi. Former India captain and one of the finest all-rounders that the cricket world has produced, Kapil Dev led India to their first World Cup triumph in 1983. Kapil Dev has been pretty active with his views on cricket in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020. The former Indian skipper was also dealing with diabetes-related health issues. However, the news of Kapil Dev’s heart attack has left the entire social media shocked as fans took to…
Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday conveyed to prominent Afghan leader Ata Mohammad Noor that it is committed to reconstruction and development of Afghanistan. The former governor of Balkh Province held talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Wednesday. Spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Anurag Srivastava said the current situation in Afghanistan including the peace process and increasing number of incidents of violence in that country figured in the talks. “We reiterated our long-term commitment towards reconstruction and development of Afghanistan,” Srivastava said at a media briefing The Taliban…
https://twitter.com/AtulRepublic/status/1319198385979543553?s=20 In a shocking incident in Lucknow, a Mazar caretaker was arrested yesterday for allegedly running a sex racket. As per a report of News 18, the caretaker of Jama Mazar situated at Hussainabad in Thakurganj area of Lucknow named ‘Kale Baba’ allegedly used to sexually exploit women in the name of treatment. The local people had reportedly been receiving complaints regarding some suspicious activities taking place in the Mazar. Some of the locals caught a woman and a man in an objectionable condition in a room adjacent to the Mazar. They recorded the incident on cameras. A video of…
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said in Bulandshahr that he has kept his promise of improving law and order situation in the state, and no one will now will dare disrespect “our sisters and daughters of western Uttar Pradesh”. Neither will there be a repeat of the exodus seen in Kairana and Kandhla following the riots, nor will youths such as Sachin and Gaurav have to “sacrifice themselves”, he said. Sachin and Gaurav’s murders in August 2013 had allegedly sparked the riots in Muzaffarnagar. Addressing the public, Adityanath was talking of the poll agenda in Bulandshahr, Amroha,…