After Pakistani diplomats working in the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi were caught on the charges of espionage, the Indian government has downgraded its diplomatic ties with its western neighbour and asked Islamabad to reduce its staff strength by half in the country within the next 7 days. India would also reduce its own staff in Pakistan by the same proportion. The decision also came on the heels of the mistreatment meted out to the Indian diplomats in Pakistan, who were abducted by Pakistani security agencies before being tortured and framed in a false case of a road accident…
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The WHO Situation Report 153 dated 21st June, 2020 shows that India has one of the lowest cases per lakh population in spite of its high population density. India’s cases per lakh population are 30.04 while the global average is more than its triple at 114.67. The US has 671.24 cases per lakh population while the metric for Germany, Spain and Brazil is 583.88, 526.22 and 489.42 respectively. This low figure is thus a testimony to the graded, pre-emptive and pro-active approach the Government of India along with the States/UTs took for the prevention, containment and management of COVID-19. …
Hindu Sena workers on Tuesday defaced a signboard outside the Chinese embassy here, expressing anger against the aggressive Chinese behaviour on the border and the killing of 20 Indian soldiers in clashes with PLA troops in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley last week. “Today, in protest against People’s Republic of China’s aggression on the LAC, Hindu Sena activists pasted protest poster stating ”Cheen Gaddar Hai, Hindi Cheeni Bye Bye’ (China is a traitor, India-China Bye Bye) on Chinese embassy’s signboard,” Hindu Sena president Vishnu Gupta said. The police, however, said no formal complaint has been received in this regard. “Someone pasted a…
Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi slammed the Congress party and its leader saying the party should consider sending Rahul Gandhi to a “political playschool” to understand the country’s culture, traditions and to get rid of his “lack of political knowledge”. Naqvi told the press, “The family should send its 50-year-old Pappu to a political playschool. Feudal attitudes and abusive language will not stop until he is sent to a political playschool. He does not understand the country’s culture, traditions, and beliefs. Baseless rumours to create a political uproar. Sometimes he questions the security, economy, and even leadership of the…
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Singh (RSS), the ideological mentor of the ruling BJP, held a crucial meeting here over the recent India-China border tension where the government’s response and public stand was discussed at length. It has decided throw its weight behind the government and spearhead a campaign to boycott Chinese products. The meeting was attended by top RSS leaders including Suresh ”Bhaiyyaji” Joshi, Dattatreya Hosabale, Dr Krishna Gopal, Suresh Soni, Ramesh Pappa, Ram Lal, Arun Kumar, Sunil Ambekar, Narendra Kumar among others. However, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat could not attend the meeting. The 3-day long meeting ended late on Monday.…
A NASA astronaut has given the world a stunning glimpse of Earth, as seen from space. Colonel Doug Hurley, who is currently on board the International Space Station, shared a photo of a Saharan dust plume spreading over the Atlantic Ocean a few hours ago. According to CNN, the much-anticipated Saharan dust plume is making its way across the Atlantic from Africa to the United States. The dust, straight from the Sahara Desert, is so thick that it is clearly visible from space as grey clouds spreading over blue water. https://twitter.com/CIRA_CSU/status/1274025903220092930?s=20 “We flew over this Saharan dust plume today in…
Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said the entire country is delighted over the Supreme Court decision on Jagannath Rath Yatra in Puri and stressed that Prime Hours after the Supreme Court decision of allowing the annual Jagannath Rath Yatra in Odisha’s Puri to be held with the coordination of the Temple committee, State and Central government, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said that the entire nation is delighted by the decision. In a series of tweets, he expressed his happiness over the Supreme Court’s decision. “Today is a special day for all of us, particularly our Odia sisters and…
Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Shri Prakash Javadekar inaugurated the Virtual India Pavilion today. The pavilion showcases Indian cinema across linguistic, cultural and regional spheres and aims at forging an increasing number of international partnership in distribution, production, filming in India, script development and technology and promoting film sales and syndication. Addressing the film fraternity and film lovers across the Globe, the Minister said “virtual inaugurations are the new normal and these virtual spaces are the new places for real partnerships”. He added that films are India’s soft power and the film facilitation office would be made a single…
The Uttar Pradesh government has told the Supreme Court that due to the inflammatory speech made by JNU scholar Sharjeel imam at Aligarh on the 16th of January, widespread arson and looting ensued in the state. The statement was made in the affidavit filed by the government in connection to a plea filed by The Wire columnist requesting the consolidation of all FIRs against him in various states. Opposing the plea, the Yogi government said that the FIR filed by UP Police could not be clubbed with the rest as his speech had a distinct local effect. The state government…
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday left for a three-day visit to Russia during which he will hold talks with top Russian military brass and attend a grand military parade in Moscow to mark the 75th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Germany in the Second World War. It is the first visit abroad by a senior union minister in four months as foreign travels were restricted in view of the coronavirus pandemic. The last foreign trip abroad by a senior member of the union cabinet was by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman when she visited Riyadh from Feb 22-24 to…