India on Thursday said China should sincerely work with it for complete disengagement of troops at the earliest from all friction areas including Pangong lake and take steps to de-escalate the situation in eastern Ladakh. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said India hoped the Chinese side would strictly respect and observe the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and not make further attempts to “unilaterally” change the status quo. At a media briefing, the MEA spokesperson also referred to the consensus arrived at separate meetings between defence ministers and foreign ministers of the two countries in Moscow on September 4…
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Her age may have posed a challenge but 100-year-old Mai Handique’s battle against COVID-19 was won by her positivity, doctors said on Thursday. Handique, Assam’s oldest COVID-19 patient, was discharged from the Mahendra Mohan Chowdhury Hospital (MMCH) in Guwahati on Wednesday, they said. A resident of the Mothers’ adulthood Home, she was admitted to the hospital ten days ago after testing COVID- positive. The doctors and nurses who were treating her held alittle celebration before she was discharged. Handique, who was beaming excitedly , joined the party singing several Assamese songs in her full-throated voice. Handique, called Aita (grandma) by…
Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) on Thursday announced that the style showcase goes digital and season fluid for its 2020 edition this October. The virtual event going to be live from October 21 to 25 on a high-tech virtual platform specially created for LFW. The interactive virtual venue aims to host “state of the art curated shows” with top technology, e-commerce, engaging digital content and cyber networking. “With the first-ever digital edition, Lakme Fashion Week are going to be reinvented to still enable the business of fashion, create new experiences for audiences and put the spotlight back on the longer term…
Pakistan’s never stops from provoking India by its territorial claims on paper. On the occasion of the first anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370, Imran Khan had released a new political map. In accordance with that, the neighbouring country demonstrated the entirety of Jammu and Kashmir as a disputed territory. Moreover, it claimed Siachen, Sir Creek and some parts of Junagadh that is situated in Gujarat as a part of the Pakistani region V Muraleedharan, Minister of State for External Affairs, gave a strong rebuttal to “Pakistan’s obsession with territorial aggrandizement” in the Parliament on Thursday. The BJP leader…
Nepal continues to provoke India. The latest provocation comes from the ruling dispensation of Nepal’s Nepal Communist Party, joining hands with Unified Nepal National Front launch a new campaign for ‘Greater Nepal’ that includes a claim for Indian cities such as Dehradun and Nainital. The Communists of Nepal, addition to illegally claiming Indian cities in its ‘Greater Nepal’ campaign, has also laid claims to parts of Uttarakhand, Himachal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Sikkim. Citing the Treaty of Sugauli Nepal signed in 1816 between the East India Company and the then ruling establishment of Nepal, the current Nepalese establishment has been…
Yet another murder of a BJP worker. 38-year old BJP youth wing leader Ranganathan was brutally hacked to death in Tamil Nadu’s Kelamangalam in Krishnagiri district on Tuesday night. The 38-year-old BJP functionary, who was a Dalit, was killed by an unidentified gang on Tuesday. Ranganathan had recently joined BJP after quitting AIADMK and was appointed as the BJP Youth wing president of Kundumaaranappalli village. Witnesses say that on Tuesday, Ranganathan was celebrating his son’s birthday along with his family members. An unidentified gang forcefully entered his house and picked up a fight with him. As Ranganathan ran towards the…
https://twitter.com/BJP4India/status/1306448959389523972?s=20 On Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 70th birthday, the BJP has prepared a special virtual exhibition “highlighting his achievements”. The party, on Twitter, posted a short clip about the virtual exhibition. “Witness PM’s life-story, his achievements in a never-before-seen format…”, the BJP wrote on social media along with the video. Describing it as a “a special virtual exhibit for a special day” the party said “greet your favourite leader on his 70th birthday from home!” The virtual exhibition can seen on the NaMo App, it said
The Indian government on Monday banned the export of all varieties of onions with immediate effect to increase availability and curb prices of the commodity in the domestic market. “The latest abrupt announcement of the Government of India on September 14, 2020 undermines the discussions that took place in 2019 and 2020 between the two friendly countries on the matter and the understanding shared,” read the foreign ministry letter sent to India through its High Commission in Dhaka. The letter, dated September 15, was made available to the Bangladesh media in the late hours of Wednesday. It requests the Indian…
Twitter has been abuzz with birthday wishes for the Prime Minister and #HappyBirthdayPMModi trending. https://twitter.com/rajnathsingh/status/1306398439593275392?s=20 Various leaders across parties including Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi have tweeted their greetings for PM Modi. https://twitter.com/RahulGandhi/status/1306407998017818624?s=20 https://twitter.com/AmitShah/status/1306401035452284928?s=20 On the occasion of PM Modi’s birthday, BJP has organised several events across the country to celebrate. A 70 kg laddu has also been prepared to celebrate the occasion. The party will also observe ‘Seva Saptah’, a week-long event which began on September 14 that will be dedicated to pray for long life and good health of PM…
A record single-day increase of 97,894 infections pushed India’s Covid-19 tally to over 51 lakh, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 40 lakh on Thursday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. Total coronavirus cases in the country mounted to 51,18,253, while the death toll climbed to 83,198 with the virus claiming 1,132 lives in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed. The total recoveries surged to 40,25,079 while the active cases of COVID-19 crossed 10 lakh for the first time. The Covid-19 case fatality rate due to the…