West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held a nearly two-hour meeting with agitating junior doctors on Monday evening at the state secretariat, Nabanna. The talks aimed to resolve the ongoing impasse following the tragic rape and murder of a female medic at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August. After 16 days of a fast-unto-death, the junior doctors called off their protest following the meeting, although they plan to continue their movement in different ways. The meeting, which was live-streamed for the first time, took place on the 17th day of a fast-unto-death by a section of protesting doctors. Banerjee…
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Shortly after the Foreign Secretary announced that Indian and Chinese negotiators had reached an agreement on patrolling along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar affirmed this development, stating that the Indian Armed Forces will be able to resume patrolling in areas that were accessible prior to the 2020 clash. Jaishankar said, “We will be able to go back to 2020 patrolling”. Earlier, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said that India and China had resolved the pending issues of patrolling and disengagement of troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. The armies…
At least five Naxals were killed in a police encounter in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra on Monday, said an official. The encounter took place in the Kopri forest of Bhamragad tehsil, located in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district near the Chhattisgarh border in bordering. As many as 22 teams of C60 commando of Gadchiroli police and two teams of CRPF QAT carried out the operation, the official added. Police have recovered five bodies of Naxalites and they have been brought to the Gadchiroli police headquarters. Their identification is going on. Anti-Naxal police teams are engaged in the operation, and initial reports indicate…
India’s high commissioner to Canada has denied any involvement in the murder of a Canadian terrorist who was killed in British Columbia last year even though the Canadian government has named him as a person of interest in the assassination. Sanjay Kumar Verma, who was recalled by New Delhi with five other Indian diplomats, said in an interview on CTV’s Question Period on Sunday that the allegations are politically motivated. The Indian government claimed it had recalled its diplomats but the Justin Trudeau-led administration said they were “expelled”. “Nothing at all,” Verma said when asked if he had any role…
Seven employees of an infrastructure company, including a doctor from Kashmir, were killed in a terror attack on a camp housing workers near the Sonamarg health resort on the Srinagar-Leh national highway. Five employees were also injured in the attack. This is the first major attack in the Valley on construction workers of a large infrastructure project, and has taken place in a region that has witnessed little or no presence of militants in the last decade. Police sources said that on Sunday evening, suspected militants opened fire on a camp set up by the construction company, which is building…
The two ministerial panels set up by the GST Council met on Friday and discussed GST rate rationalisation and lowering tax rate on health and life insurance premiums. This was the first meeting of the 13-member GoM, under Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, which was set up to suggest tax on health and life insurance premiums. The panel, which includes ministers from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Meghalaya, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Telangana, has been mandated to submit its report to the GST Council by October end. On Saturday’s meeting, the GoM on…
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released its list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha and Assembly bypolls. The party has fielded Navya Haridas against Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi for the Wayanad Lok Sabha bypoll. The party has also released the list of candidates for Assembly bypolls from Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and West Bengal. The party also named 24 candidates for Assembly polls across eight states. Former MP Sunil Soni will contest from the Raipur City South assembly in Chhattisgarh. Navya Haridas, 39, is a two-time councillor in Kozhikode Corporation and BJP parliamentary party…
Officials from the aviation safety body Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) on Saturday met representatives of airlines at the body’s headquarters in Delhi in view of a spade of hoax bomb threats. Nearly 70 flights operated by the Indian carriers have received hoax bomb threats in the last few days. During the meeting, airline representatives discussed issues they are facing due to the series of Hoax bomb threats with BCAS DG Zulfiqar Hasan.They also apprised him that security issues during the festive season could lead to congestion at airports. After the meeting, Hasan said that safety protocols to deal with such…
A war of words broke out again between the Tamil Nadu government and the governor on Friday after Chief Minister MK Stalin said a line with the word ‘Dravida’ was skipped when the Tamil anthem was sung at an event attended by Governor RN Ravi. Urging the Centre to recall the governor, Stalin accused him of insulting national unity and Governor Ravi also hit back, claiming that the chief minister had made a racist remark against him. The Governor’s office also denied the DMK chief’s allegation, saying that RN Ravi was only attending the function, and the troupe reciting the state song,…
Virat Kohli entered the history books during India’s opening Test match against New Zealand in Bengaluru on Friday. Kohli scored a brave fifty in the second innings to complete 9,000 runs in Test cricket and became the only fourth Indian to achieve this historic feat. After being bowled out on a duck in the first match, the former captain displayed some glimpses of returning to his best with a much-needed fifty in the second innings. Kohli achieved the 9000 Test runs milestone after reaching the 53-run mark at M Chinnaswamy Stadium and joined legendary Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar in the…