Spike in oil price breaking India’s back: Jaishankar
India, which has a USD 2,000 per capita economy, is concerned over the spike in the price of oil due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict and it is “breaking our back,” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday. Addressing a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken after...
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170 PFI activists arrested in pan-India crackdown
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Man kills wife for refusing to wear burqa
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Dada Saheb Phalke goes to Asha Parekh
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HC restrains AAP from libel against L-G, asks party to take down posts
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UP Govt defers appointment of CJI’s son as its lawyer in SC
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Abe was a great leader, believed in Indo-Japan friendship, says Modi
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Shashi in race, Bansal picks form; no word on Raj CM’s candidature
28 September 2022 | Pioneer News Service
Gehlot off the hook, but his loyalists to pay price
Congress observers for Rajasthan on Tuesday gave a clean chit to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, but in a hardening of stance the party issued show-cause notices to two of his Cabinet Ministers and an MLA. On the recommendation of Ajay Maken and Mallikarjun Kharge, the two central observers, the Congress disciplinary...
Uddhav jolted! SC lets EC decide on real Sena
In a big setback to Uddhav Thackeray, the Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Election Commission to go ahead with the hearing of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde group’s plea seeking recognition as the real Shiv Sena and allocation of the party’s bow-and-arrow poll symbol to it. Justice DY Chandrachud, heading...
50% of tweets asked by Govt to be blocked ‘innocuous’, Twitter tells Karnataka HC
Twitter on Monday claimed before the Karnataka High Court it was being asked by the Government to block accounts, rather than just a tweet that was deemed improper, because of its political content. As a platform it was affected by the Centre asking it to take down accounts without issuing...
Ankita’s murder: Mother says body not shown to her before last rites
A day after Ankita Bhandari’s cremation, her mother has claimed that she was not shown the body before cremation. In a video shot in a hospital, she alleges that she was tricked into going to the hospital where she was put on a drip. Ankita worked in a resort owned by...
15 dead as man with Nazi symbol opens fire in Russian school
A gunman opened fire in a school in central Russia on Monday, killing 15 people and wounding 24 others before shooting himself dead, authorities said. The shooting took place in School No. 88 in Izhevsk, a city 960 kilometres (600 miles) east of Moscow in the Udmurtia region. Russia’s Investigative Committee identified...
Rupee plunges 58p to close at all-time low of 81.67 per $
The rupee plunged 58 paise to close at an all-time low of 81.67 against the US dollar on Monday as the strengthening of the American currency overseas and risk-averse sentiment among investors weighed on the local unit. Moreover, escalation of geopolitical risks due to conflict in Ukraine, a negative trend in...
Anti-India forces shut out of country, conspiring on foreign soil: Jaishankar
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has taken exception to some sections of the mainstream US media for their “biased” coverage of India and said anti-India forces are “not winning” in the country and trying to shape the narrative from outside. Airing these opinions in his interaction with a group of Indian-Americans...
