NEW DELHI, Jul 2 (NNN-PTI) – India and Pakistan, yesterday, exchanged a list of civilian prisoners in each other’s jails, officials said.
The exchange was carried out through diplomatic channels, simultaneously at New Delhi and Islamabad, India’s foreign ministry officials said.
New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) A Delhi court on Tuesday posted for July 7 the pronouncement on whether to take cognisance of the charge sheet filed by the Delhi police against BJP MP and outgoing WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in a case of alleged sexual harassment of women wrestlers.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Harjeet Singh Jaspal, who was scheduled to pass the order on Saturday, noted the submission of the city police that its probe is still in progress and a supplementary charge sheet is likely to be filed.
New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) A three-judge Supreme Court bench commenced hearing late on Saturday night the plea by social activist Teesta Setalvad seeking interim protection from arrest in a case of alleged fabrication of evidence to frame innocent people in 2002 post-Godhra riots cases.
A bench of Justices B R Gavai, A S Bopanna and Dipankar Datta is hearing the matter in a special sitting after a two-judge vacation bench differed on granting interim protection to Setalvad.
New Delhi, Jul 2 (PTI) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday by calling him the "biggest patron of corruption" after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar, along with eight others from the party, joined the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government.
While Pawar was sworn in as the deputy chief minister by Governor Ramesh Bais at a ceremony held in the Raj Bhawan in Mumbai, the eight other NCP leaders took oath as ministers.
ISLAMABAD, Jul 1 (NNN-APP) – Six terrorists were killed in two separate clashes between security forces and terrorists, in Pakistan’s north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a military statement said, late last night.
Three terrorists were killed in an exchange of fire late Thursday night, in the Manzai area of the Tank district, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan army, said, in a statement.
RAWALPINDI, Jun 30 (APP): The security forces on Friday killed six active terrorists involved in various hostile and terror activities against the forces and innocent civilians amid successful operations in Tank and North Waziristan districts.
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), an exchange of fire took place between the army troops and terrorists in the general area of Manzai, Tank District on the night of June 29-30.
The troops effectively engaged the terrorists’ location and resultantly, three of them were sent to hell.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has agreed to provide $3 billion to Pakistan in badly needed relief to help bail out the impoverished country’s ailing economy.
The nine-month agreement must be approved by the IMF’s Executive Board, which is expected to make a final decision in mid-July, a top IMF official, Nathan Porter, said in a statement late Thursday.
GUWAHATI, India, June 29 (Reuters) - Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was stopped by local police on Thursday and teargas fired near his convoy when the 53-year old scion of the Congress party was on his way to visit the violence-hit northeastern Manipur state.
At least 80 people have been killed and more than 40,000 have fled their homes since clashes broke out in Manipur in early May between ethnic groups. Sporadic incidents of violence and arson still occur despite the heavy presence of security forces in parts of the remote state, which borders Myanmar.
ISLAMABAD, June 28 (APP): Pakistan and the European Union have agreed to intensify cooperation in the fight against smuggling of migrants and trafficking in human beings.
The two sides emphasised the importance of comprehensive cooperation on migration management, including return and readmission under the framework of Pakistan-EU Joint Readmission Agreement.
The EU expressed sincere condolences on the loss of Pakistani lives in a tragic shipwreck on the Mediterranean Sea.
ISLAMABAD, Jun 28 (NNN-APP) – Pakistan will hold a three-day international conference in July, to promote tourism in the country, local media reported, today.
The report quoted Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Gandhara Tourism, Ramesh Kumar, as saying that, a national tourism policy has been finalised and would be announced at the conference starting from Jul 11, in order to attract tourists from abroad.
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