Two Army personnel were killed and two others injured in a gunbattle Friday between security forces and terrorists in the Chatroo area of Kishtwar district in Jammu and Kashmir. The Nagrota-based White Knight Corps said four Army personnel had been injured in the firefight. Sources said that two personnel succumbed to injuries while being taken to the Chatroo hospital. The gunbattle in Kishtwar — it will vote in the first phase of the Assembly elections in the Union Territory on September 18 — took place a day ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to adjoining Doda. He is scheduled…
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This International Day for Democracy, 15 September, is particularly important because 2024 is a big year for democracy. By its end, people in more than 60 countries with a combined population of around four billion will have had the chance to cast a vote in national or regional elections, making it by some estimates the biggest ever election year by participant numbers. Some of this year’s elections have already made an impact. Voters have diminished the powers of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa, who both now govern in coalition with other parties. In France,…
The West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front on Friday wrote to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting their intervention after the state government failed to conduct talks with agitating doctors to resolve the RG Kar hospital impasse on Thursday. Copies of the four-page letter were also sent to Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar and Union Health Minister JP Nadda. The four-page letter highlighted the key demands and issues faced by the healthcare professionals under the West Bengal Health Department. The agitating doctors wrote, “Our unfortunate colleague who has been the victim of the most despicable crime shall receive justice,…
The government on Friday renamed Port Blair, the capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, as Sri Vijaya Puram. Union Home Minister Amit Shah made the announcement. “Inspired by the vision of PM @narendramodi Ji, to free the nation from the colonial imprints, today we have decided to rename Port Blair as “Sri Vijaya Puram.” While the earlier name had a colonial legacy, Sri Vijaya Puram symbolises the victory achieved in our freedom struggle and the A&N Islands’ unique role in the same,” said Shah. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Amit Shah said the decision was taken to shed “colonial…
The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on bail bond of Rs 10 lakh and two sureties in the Delhi excise policy ‘scam’. The Apex Court however, directed the CM not to make any public comment on merits of the case. The SC on Kejriwal’s bail plea said, “No impediment in arresting a person who is already in custody in another case for purposes of probe.” The matter relates to alleged corruption in the formulation and execution of the Delhi government’s excise policy for 2021-22, which has now been scrapped. The Enforcement Directorate (ED)…
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she is ready to resign amid the standoff with doctors. As the doctors persisted on their demand for live-streaming of their meeting with the CM, Mamata said, “We waited for two hours for meeting with junior doctors, but they didn’t enter the venue.” As the RG Kar case is sub-judice, meeting with junior doctors cannot be live-streamed as demanded by them, Mamata said. “We had arrangements to video-record meeting with junior doctors, we could have shared that with them with SC’s permission,” she said. “I tried thrice to hold talks with junior doctors…
India’s aviation sector is undergoing a major transformation, significantly enhancing travel convenience for its citizens and boosting connectivity across the region. This advancement was highlighted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his address at the 2nd Asia Pacific Civil Aviation Ministers Conference. Emphasising that the civil aviation sector has a major role in growth and creates many jobs, Modi said efforts should be made to ensure that the skies remain open for all and that people’s dream of flying is fulfilled. PM Modi said, “In a way, the brightest minds of the Civil Aviation Sector are amongst us here. It…
After putting numerous troubles for professional media persons in Bangladesh with brutal laws at the background of relentless socio-political turmoil in the last few decades, the current interim government in Dhaka, headed by Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, starts actively considering setting up a media commission to ensure press freedom and accountability in the south Asian nation, which was born in 1971. While addressing the nation of 170 million people on 11 September 2024, Prof Yunus stated that the freedom of expression is guaranteed in the Constitution of Bangladesh. The government must respect everyone’s opinions even with critical views, added…
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday claimed roughly 75 per cent of the “disengagement problems” with China are sorted out. On the issue of lingering border row in eastern Ladakh, Jaishankar underscored that the bigger issue has been the increasing militarization of the frontier. In an interactive session at a think-tank in this Swiss city, Jaishankar said the Galwan Valley clashes of June 2020 affected the “entirety” of India-China ties, asserting that one cannot have violence at the border and then say the rest of the relationship is insulated from it. The external affairs minister said negotiations between the two…
Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, 72, passed away on Thursday at AIIMS, New Delhi, after battling a respiratory tract infection. Known for his affable personality and accommodative political stance, Yechury was one of the most recognisable faces of the Left in recent years. He is survived by his wife Seema Chishti, editor of The Wire; his daughter Akhila and son Daanish. A Marxist theoretician, Yechury was a believer when it came to the Communist ideology but showed the rare willingness to test the limitations of its hard boundaries for the imperatives of democractic — and practical…