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
Source- ndtv.com The headmen of 22 villages near the Sardar Sarovar Dam on Monday wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi stating that villagers would not welcome him at the inauguration of the Statue of Unity on October 31. Local tribal leaders have also announced a boycott of the function citing destruction of natural
Source- indianexpress.com The Indian Army Monday targeted Pakistan army’s administrative headquarters at Hazira, in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) causing extensive damage, officials said. According to security officials, this was retaliation to the firing of “stray shells’’ by Pakistani army on Poonch and Jhallas areas on October 23. One of the shells had landed in Poonch artillery brigade
Source- ndtv.com The Centre has filed in the Supreme Court details of the decision-making process for the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets in a fly-away condition from France’s Dassault Aviation. The details of the decision-making process were submitted to the Secretary General of the Supreme Court on Friday in a sealed cover as directed by
Source- news18.com New Delhi: US President Donald Trump has turned down India’s invitation to be the chief guest at next year’s Republic Day parade, CNN-News18 has learnt. Sources said the US authorities conveyed Trump’s decision in a letter to NSA Ajit Doval recently. The US president’s “domestic commitments”, including his State of the Union address, around that
