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Source- ndtv.com The trial run of the country’s engine-less train will be conducted today on the Bareilly-Moradabad section. “Train 18”, developed by the Integral Coach Factory and seen as a successor to the Shatabdi Express, was unveiled last month by Railway Board chairman Ashwani Lohani. The fully air-conditioned train, driven by a self-propulsion module, can run

Source- newindianexpress.com Pakistan has “cost-effective solutions” to India’s latest ballistic missile defence system and would also find a counter to its nuclear-capable submarine, a media report said Wednesday quoting a senior official of the country’s top strategic body. Addressing a conference on ‘Nuclear Deterrence and Strategic Stability in South Asia’ hosted by the Strategic Vision Institute

Source- indianexpress.com The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a petition challenging the ordinance making instant triple talaq a punishable offence. “We are not inclined to interfere,” a bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justices K M Joseph and Hemant Gupta said, turning down the plea by ‘Samastha Kerala Jamiat Ulema’, an “a religious organisation

Source- indianexpress.com The Supreme Court is slated to hear Friday the politically-sensitive Rs 64 crore Bofors pay-off case in which CBI earlier this year filed an appeal after a 13-year delay against the Delhi High Court decision quashing charges against all the accused. The matter would come up for hearing before a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan

Source- ndtv.com The US on Thursday revoked duty-free concessions on import of at least 50 Indian products, mostly from handloom and agriculture sectors, reflecting the Trump administration’s tough stand on trade-related issues with New Delhi. The federal register issued a notification, listing out 90 products which were so far subject to duty-free provisions under the Generalized

Source- news18.com New Delhi: As emergency measures to check pollution come into force from Thursday in Delhi-NCR, state pollution control bodies have been directed to initiate criminal prosecution against violators, while the Delhi government said it was fully prepared to implement odd-even scheme to regulate private vehicles when needed. A day after the air quality slipped into

Source- indianexpress.com For the second time in a fortnight, China has alerted India of a possible flood-like situation in the Brahmaputra river in Arunachal Pradesh after a landslide blocked water upstream in Tibet, a senior Water Resources Ministry official said on Wednesday. The alert of a landslide and subsequent formation of an artificial lake was informed

Source- ndtv.com The Supreme Court will hear a batch of petitions including the joint plea filed by former Union Ministers Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie along with Prashant Bhushan, into the Rafale fighter jet deal between India and France today. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, which had directed the Centre to provide in

Source- thediplomat.com Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has wrapped up his latest visit to Japan for the annual prime ministerial summit between the two countries. He and his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, concluded a range of agreements, including several significant measures on military cooperation and regional and global security. As my colleague Franz-Stefan Gady reported earlier, one of

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