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shehbaz sharif (left), Amir Muttaqi and S Jaishankar (File – agencies) Pakistan has lodged formal objections with Afghanistan’s Ambassador in Islamabad over several ‘elements of the India‑Afghanistan joint statement’, particularly the reference to Jammu and Kashmir as ‘part of India’. It also rejected remarks by Afghan foreign minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi that “terrorism is…

NEW DELHI: The ED late on Friday arrested Reliance Power’s chief financial officer Ashok Pal after questioning him at its headquarters here in a case of fake bank guarantee. He was produced before a court here on Saturday and remanded in two days of ED custody. Pal, the CFO of Reliance Power Limited (RPL), an…

NEW DELHI: Justice Surya Kant, who will take over as CJI next month, on Saturday said that while eastern and north-eastern India are rich in diversity and potential, the young generation there faces grave challenges such as child marriage, narcotic substance abuse, and marginalisation of tribals and tea garden workers.Inaugurating the National Legal Services Authority’s…

JAMMU: A 17-year-old girl died after being hit by an unknown vehicle in Kathua on Friday night while at least 10 people were injured when their vehicle was hit by a landslide at Sigdi Balana area of Kishtwar district on Saturday, police said.Police said the victim in the first accident, Kritika Pansotra, was the daughter…

ANI File Photo: AIMIM Bihar chief Akhtarul Iman (sitting in middle) NEW DELHI: The Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Saturday announced it will contest the upcoming Bihar assembly elections and field around 100 candidates, aiming to provide an “alternative” to voters in a state traditionally dominated by the JD(U)-BJP and RJD-Congress blocs.“Our…

NEW DELHI: Learning from the success of the Swachh Bharat Mission, the biggest ever behaviour change campaign, ministries and central departments have been asked to consider launching a campaign to improve civic sense and public behaviour. The goal is to instil a sense of ownership among people regarding public assets, transport infrastructure and public spaces.Sources…

Arvind Kejriwal condemns arrest of AAP Gujarat leader Raju Karpada Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday reacted sharply to the arrest of Raju Karpada, the party’s Gujarat Farmer Cell head, who was taken into custody by Gujarat Police in the early hours of the morning. The arrest followed Karpada’s protest at the…

Afghanistan foreign minister visits Darul Uloom Deoband in UP (Pictur ecredit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Taliban’s foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi visited the Darul Uloom Deoband in Saharanpur on Saturday, meeting Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind President Maulana Arshad Madani and other senior officials of the seminary. Muttaqi expressed gratitude for the warm reception and optimism about India-Afghanistan ties….

NEW DELHI: The opposition may send a delegation to Ladakh, where violence during a protest last month demanding statehood and tribal status under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution left four people dead and several injured, PTI reported on Saturday.Sources in several opposition parties said the delegation could go to the Union Territory towards the…

NEW DELHI: Politics in Bihar saw the dominance of RJD patriarch Lalu Yadav and Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar for more than three decades. With Lalu and Nitish at the twilight of their careers, the upcoming assembly elections may lead Bihar into a phase of the “unknown,” with a new face possibly taking the…