Prime Minister pays tributes to 1971 War martyrs. Contemporary Bangladesh was created with the blood of freedom-loving people, and of the Indian soldiers who were martyred in the War of Liberation of 1971, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Dhaka on Friday. Addressing a special gathering on the National Day celebrations that marked the 50th anniversary of the Independence of Bangladesh, Mr. Modi said the creation of Bangladesh received support from all sections of the Indian political class. The visiting leader also said the two countries would have to fight jointly against terrorism.“Bangladesh is sustained by the blood of the…
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The party urges the Commission to clean up the list within a week to ensure ‘free and fair’ polls The Congress on Friday complained to the Election Commission about ‘bogus voters’ in the electoral list of Kerala and asked the EC to clean up the list within a week to ensure ‘free and fair’ polls. The party alleged that State election officials colluded with the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government and asked the EC to register FIRs against such officials as well as voters who had registered themselves fraudulently under different identities or in different constituencies.Kerala will vote in a…
Andhra Pradesh reported close to 1,000 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths, and Karnataka over 2,500 cases, the latter for the second consecutive day on Friday. Kerala reported 1,825 cases with a test positivity rate (TPR) of 3.49% while the incidence was 518 in Telangana on March 25. Kerala’s cumulative fatalities rose as 14 new deaths were added to the official list. Thiruvananthapuram reported five deaths, Alappuzha and Thrissur two each, while one death each was reported from Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Wayanad, Kannur and Kasaragod.Of the 1,825 new cases reported, 1,612 cases were believed to be locally acquired infections.Among districts, Kozhikode…
Eritrea will pull its troops out of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Friday, a potential breakthrough in a drawn-out conflict that has seen atrocities carried out against civilians.The announcement comes as Mr. Abiy, winner of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, faces mounting pressure to end fighting, in which both Eritrean and Ethiopian troops stand accused of abuses, including mass killings and rapes. Mr. Abiy sent troops into Tigray on November 4 after accusing the region’s once-dominant ruling party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), of attacks on Army camps. For months both Addis Ababa…
On 50th Independence Day, hardline Islamist group stages demonstrations against the Indian Prime Minister’s Dhaka visit. Four supporters of a hardline Islamist group were shot dead in Bangladesh on Friday in violent demonstrations over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tour to Dhaka, officials said.It comes as Bangladesh marks 50 years of independence from Pakistan with celebrations focused on its economic achievements, which activist groups say have been overshadowed by rights abuses. Police said four bodies of members of Hefazat-e-Islam, a hardline Islamist group, were brought to Chittagong Medical College Hospital after violence erupted at Hathazari, a rural town where the group’s…
The new law’s controversial provisions include a cut in the number of weeks during which people can ask for absentee mail in ballots The U.S. State of Georgia passed a law on Thursday, making ballot access more restrictive as Republicans across the country consider similar moves. Democrats and other critics of the law said it was targeted against Black voters and reminiscent of the Jim Crow (segregation) era. Several activist groups have mounted legal challenges to the law.The new law’s controversial provisions include a cut in the number of weeks during which people can ask for absentee mail in ballots,…
Dozens of ambulance vehicles were rushed to the scene of the crash, which took place in the southern province of Sohag, said a statement by Egypt’s Heath Ministry Two trains collided on Friday in southern Egypt on Friday, causing three passenger cars to flip over, killing 32 people and leaving 66 injured, health authorities said.Dozens of ambulance vehicles were rushed to the scene of the crash, which took place in the southern province of Sohag, said a statement by Egypt’s Heath Ministry.Local media displayed videos from the scene showing flipped wagons with passengers trapped inside and surrounded by rubble. Some…
She claimed the Bombay High Court overreached its power by examining allegations that were placed before the police through media reports The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain the appeal of Sushant Singh Rajput’s sister challenging the Bombay High Court order which refused to quash an FIR lodged against her on the complaint of actress Rhea Chakraborty, the late actor’s girlfriend.A Bench of Chief Justice of India S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian dismissed the appeal filed by Priyanka Singh, saying it was not inclined to hear the matter.Ms. Singh challenged the Bombay High…
Party functionaries said that their votes are significant in deciding the winners in the election. With nine days left for the election campaign to end, political parties in Erode are trying to get the votes of about 16,500 North Indian voters who had settled down in various parts of the city coming under the Erode (East) Assembly constituency. During partition of India, a Hindu family from Karachi in Pakistan, came to the city and settled here. They started a textile showroom, ‘Bombay Hall’, near the Town Police Station. Till 1975, only nine families were doing business here. As the favourable…
A Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and R. S. Reddy said that the custody of Ansari, an MLA from Mau constituency, be handed over to the State of Uttar Pradesh within two weeks. The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Punjab government to hand over the custody of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who is lodged in Rupnagar jail in New Delhi, to Uttar Pradesh Police. A Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and R. S. Reddy said that the custody of Ansari, an MLA from Mau constituency, be handed over to the State of Uttar Pradesh within two weeks. The top court…