US President Donald Trump’s economic adviser Larry Kudlow has said that TikTok may cut off ties to its Chinese parent and become a 100 per cent American company to circumvent demands to ban it as India has done. “I think TikTok is going to pull out of the holding company which is China-run and operate as an independent American company,” he told reporters at the White House on Thursday. The US has not made a final decision on whether to ban it – which has been suggested by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, he said. TikTok being divested by ByteDance…
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People can continue to visit the famous Tirumala Tirupati Balaji temple, the top official of the temple’s board has said amid a controversy over priests and employees getting infected with the highly contagious coronavirus. The temple’s board decided to re-open it on June 11, in line with the centre’s “Unlock” plans to handhold the country out of the pandemic in phases. There are no plans to stop public darshan at Tirumala Tirupati Balaji temple, said YV Subba Reddy, chairperson of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) Board. He said there is no evidence of pilgrims testing positive for coronavirus. Fourteen priests…
On Tuesday, a case was reportedly filed against a 40-year-old Madrassa teacher, Samsuddin Haji Suleman Jat, for raping a 19-year-old girl on four different occasions when she was a minor. The incident took place in Dhoro village of Nakhatrana taluka in Kutch district of Gujarat. As per a report, the accused had first raped the victim in 2015. Samsuddin had asked her to wash his clothes. Following that, he raped the victim in the bathroom and threatened to defame and even murder her if she complained about the incident to anyone else. “The Maulana immediately came from behind and raped…
Russia was accused Thursday of trying to steal coronavirus vaccine research as the pandemic surged across the world and more than 125 million people in India were put under a new lockdown. The virus has killed more than 584,000 people, infected nearly 13.6 million and crippled the global economy since emerging late last year, and the world’s hopes have turned to a vaccine to end the onslaught. In the latest positive sign, British media reported on Thursday that an Oxford University trial had shown its prototype vaccine generated an immune response against the virus. But hours later,…
There is absolutely no change with respect to India’s position on the Line of Actual Control, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday, in its most full-throated rebuttal yet to reports that New Delhi had ceded territory to China in Ladakh following the months-long standoff along the de-facto border. “The disengagement process currently underway in the Western sector is specifically aimed at addressing face-off situations and close-up deployments of troops along the LAC (Line of Actual Control). It is based on an understanding between senior military commanders,” Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said at a news briefing.…
During a press conference on 16th July, Union Civil Aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that India is in a very advanced stage of negotiations with at least three countries to start International flights via Air bubbles. He added, “Unless the international civil aviation space reclaims its pre-covid space, air bubbles are the only answer to international flights.” The three countries are France, the US and Germany. The passengers will be able to travel to the selected destinations using these flights. The passengers have to go through several checks before leaving and after landing in India. The foreign countries…
The Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs Anurag Srivastava refered to our country’s heritage The cultural heritage of India is recognised the world over, said the Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday. The statement came from the Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs Anurag Srivastava who did not respond directly to Prime Minister K.P Sharma Oli’s comments about Ayodhya and Lord Ram, saying the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nepal had already clarified the matter. “Deep and culturally rich heritage of our country is known all over the world,” he said. Prime Minister…
Jailed poet and activist Varavara Rao, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, has tested positive for COVID-19, a hospital official said on Thursday. The 80-year-old, lodged in the Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai under judicial custody, was admitted to the state-run JJ Hospital here earlier this week. Rao is asymptomatic and has general weakness, said Dr Ranjeet Mankeshwar, dean of the JJ Hospital. The poet-activist’s medical report came on Thursday and he was found to be coronavirus positive, he aid. “He has been found positive for COVID-19, but his condition is stable, no symptoms of COVID-19 have been…
India on Thursday said Pakistan did not provide “unimpeded, unhindered and unconditional” consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav in violation of a verdict by an international tribunal, and that the Indian death row convict was “visibly under stress”. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said the two Indian officials from the Indian High Commission who were allowed to meet Jadhav left the meeting after lodging a protest as the consular access provided by Pakistan was “neither meaningful nor credible”. “Pakistani officials with an intimidating demeanour were present in close proximity of Jadhav and consular officers despite the protests of the Indian…
Sachin Pilot and 18 other dissident leaders on Thursday moved the high court, challenging notices from the Rajasthan Speaker over a Congress move to disqualify them from the state assembly. The matter is scheduled to be heard before a division bench of the Rajasthan High Court at 1 pm Friday, which is also the “deadline” that the Speaker’s office gave the MLAs to file their replies to the notices. Their petition first came up before the court of Justice Satish Chandra Sharma at about 3 pm. But the dissidents’ advocate Harish Salve sought time to file a fresh plea. At…