Farmer Leaders Say Monday’s Strike Has Energised Protesters. Thousands of Indian farmers blocked traffic on major roads and railway lines in the national capital Delhi on Monday as they marked one year since the passage of the federal government’s contentious agricultural laws. The farmers called for a nationwide strike to renew their protests against the “black laws” that they believe will bring an end to their livelihood, demonstrations that first began 10 months ago. The government says the changes will benefit farmers, but unions fear they could take away the protections provided by state-run markets. “The strike was observed in several parts of the country […]
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The U.S. State Department has cleared a possible $2.42 billion Foreign Military Sale (FMS) of six P-8I maritime patrol aircraft to India. According to the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the complete package includes 6 P-8I aircraft, 8 Multifunctional Information Distribution System-Joint Tactical Radio Systems 5 (MIDS-JTRS 5), 42 AN/AAR-54 Missile Warning Sensors, 14 LN-251 with Embedded Global Positioning Systems (GPS)/Inertial Navigations Systems (EGIs) and related equipment. The announcements also say that the Indian Navy procured eight P-8I aircraft from Boeing in January 2009, via Direct Commercial Sale and contracted for an additional four aircraft in July 2016. – ADVERTISEMENT – […]
Indian Air Force announced on Wednesday that it has taken delivery of the 4th batch of Rafale fighter aircraft. The details were given in a 31 March media release, to announce that the 4th batch of three Indian Air Force Rafale fighter jets landed on Indian soil after a direct ferry fromIstres Air Base France. The IAF press release also added that Rafales were refueled in-flight by UAE Air Force tankers. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – “This marks yet another milestone in the strong relationship between the two Air Forces,” said in a statement. The Rafale, manufactured by French […]
The Indian government reportedly will spend $2.5 billion to purchase C295 tactical transport aircraft from Airbus Defense, multiple news outlets reported. On Tuesday, Hindustan Times has reported that Airbus Defence and Space and Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) will jointly execute the project to equip the Indian Air Force with new medium transport aircraft under the Make-in-India initiative in the aerospace sector. The possible deal, which covers 56 military transport aircraft, has an estimated value of $2.5 billion. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – The new-generation tactical airlifter will replace Indian Air Force fleet of aging Avro-748 planes. Under the […]
Israeli-based Smart Shooter company has announced that it was awarded a contract by the Indian Ministry of Defence for the supply of its SMASH Fire Control Systems to the Indian Navy. According to a company news release, the contract award from the Indian Navy enables the company to supply the new sighting device, called the SMASH 2000 Plus, attaches to the weapon and locks on then fires to neutralize its target with or without movement. The contract calls for the supply of Smart Shooter’s SMASH 2000 Plus fire control systems, which will be installed mainly on AK-47/103 rifles. – ADVERTISEMENT – […]
250 Million People Participate In Countrywide Strike In India December 2, 2020 250 Million People Participate In Countrywide Strike In India2020-12-022020-12-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/india-e1606929789888.jpg200px200px Despite police repression and the COVID-19 pandemic, workers and farmers and their allies across India participated in the pan-India strike action against the recent neoliberal reforms pushed through by the Narendra Modi government. On Thursday, November 26, India witnessed the biggest organized strike in human history. Over 250 million workers and farmers, along with their allies among students, feminists and civil society groups participated in the nationwide strike. The strike coincides with India’s Constitution Day, which commemorates the adoption of […]
Twitter India found itself in a massive controversy after a location tag in a live broadcast on a micro-blogging site showed Leh, the joint-capital of Ladakh, as part of the People’s Republic of China. The lapse by Twitter added fuel to the fire to anti-China sentiments in India due to ongoing border tensions. Twitter India had to issue a clarification on Monday after the micro-blogging site showed one of the two capital cities of the Indian territory of Ladakh as part of China. The company said it was a technical issue and they were working to resolve it. “We became aware […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/13/1080813239_111:0:1311:675_1200x675_80_0_0_107b54f55734fb87c919dde7baabc0d2.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Radhika Parashar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202010191080812925-monday-motivation-watch-this-indian-granny-train-with-weights-at-82-whats-your-excuse/ The seasons are changing and winters are nearly here – bringing snowy nights, fuzzy blankets, woollen overalls and lots of laziness. Monday mornings hit a little harder during the winter, but look around, your inspiration to beat the blues could be just a glance away. Aged 82, a saree-clad Indian grandmother is winning over the internet after videos of her training with significantly heavy weights went viral on social media. Indian business tycoon Harsh Mariwala, the founder of consumer goods brand Marico – a Fortune India 500 company– shared a video of […]
The Indian economy may climb from fifth to third spot in the list of the world’s largest economies over the next three decades, according to a recent study published in the medical journal Lancet. The research, conducted earlier this year, is based on changes to the size of the working-age population in the world’s largest countries, which is then translated into scenarios for total gross domestic product (GDP). According to Lancet projections, India will have the largest working-age population prior to 2030, which will continue growing to reach peak levels before 2050. Despite a projected decline later on, India will still have […]
Red lips, scintillating saris, hair tied up with flowers and chiming bangles, or skimpy dresses paired with heels; sought after at night but ostracized by day. This is the imagery the term sex worker arouses in India. Though legal, sex workers are an outcast community beyond the purvey of government welfare schemes. In a breakthrough decision, sex workers in India have now been listed by the National Human Rights Commission Commission’s (NHRC) advisory on COVID-19 under the “Women at Work” section, recognising them as “informal workers”, and thereby enabling access to government welfare schemes. The advisory came as the pandemic has […]
Recent incidents of alleged rape cases and uproar over police proceedings have brought India’s largest state Uttar Pradesh into the spotlight. The United Nations (UN) office in India has expressed concern over continuing cases of sexual violence against girls and women in Uttar Pradesh and underlined the need for speedy justice for the victims. Head of India’s Uttar Pradesh state Yogi Adityanth on Saturday offered a dedicated helping hand to address crime against women with two new programmes — “Mission Shakti” and “Operation Shakti”. Monk-turned-politician Adityanth paid homage to the alleged gang-rape victim of Hathras village by launching the campaign, which […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105968/24/1059682435_0:76:1506:924_1199x675_80_0_0_12daddb2ef579cc205b07c7d8b09948a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202010171080797611-bus-collides-with-car-in-northern-india-leaving-7-people-dead-over-30-injured-news-agency-reports/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A bus collided on Saturday with a pickup in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, leaving seven people dead and more than 30 others injured, the ANI news agency reported. “The bus was coming to Plibhit from Lucknow, and the pickup was coming from Puraipur. The accident happened at the borders of Puranpur. The bus overturned in the fields as a result of which several people in the bus got crushed. Some occupants of the pickup also received injuries in the accident,” Superintendent of Police Jai Prakash said, as quoted […]
Based on a federal complaint, a US court has issued a “temporary restraining order” to the accused US citizen so as to prevent the suspect from further victimising American seniors, the US Department of Justice said in an official release. In the first collaborative action of its kind between the US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the two probe agencies have cracked down on an alleged India-run call centre racket which financially duped hundreds of American seniors over the last decade. “The Department of Justice sincerely appreciates the CBI’s efforts to disrupt and prosecute technical support […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0f/1080775760_0:19:1200:694_1200x675_80_0_0_a2eaca39a5a144eeec188cb5b15f5dd0.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Shweta Sharma. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/viral/202010151080775341-do-not-try-this-man-has-hilarious-hack-for-his-itchy-back-in-viral-video/ While watching someone scratch any part of their body consistently may gross some people out, a man in India has turned the off-putting act of scratching an itch into a hilarious event by using a humongous tool to relieve his discomfort. A video going viral on social media shows a labourer at a construction site in India using a massive JCB excavator as his personal back-scratcher. It shows the man first trying to relieve his itchy back with a cloth but when that didn’t work he stood in front of the excavator […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Radhika Parashar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202010141080766135-chocolate-soldiers-indian-netizens-suggest-chinese-troops-should-join-circus/ Border tensions between India and China erupted in April this year after the two sides accused each other of crossing the Line of Actual Control (LAC). While troops from both nations are on guard along the LAC in Ladakh, ordinary Indians and Chinese have continuously engaged in a war of words on Twitter. In recent months, China’s state-run publication the Global Times has posted several videos of troops of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) practicing warfare in rough mountainous terrain in a supposed attempt to show off the might of the […]
As a kid growing up in Mumbai, India, Chintan Pandya wasn’t a fan of vegetables. Like many youngsters around the world, his unwillingness to eat his greens presented a challenge for his parents—but his mother was undeterred by his picky eating habits. She had one foolproof trick up her sleeve to get her son, now chef and partner at New York restaurants Adda Indian Canteen and Rahi, to eat his daily dose of veggies. She hid them in his bowl of upma. A breakfast or brunch porridge made from semolina flour, spices and veggies, upma (pronounced oop–mah) is filling, but not […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0d/1080758482_0:0:1201:675_1200x675_80_0_0_60fe93f4245f1380fe59ab7a444d1e47.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202010131080758092-watch-indian-yoga-guru-ramdev-fall-off-an-elephant-while-performing-deep-breathing/ World famous yoga guru Ram Kisan Yadav, popularly known as Ramdev Baba, made headlines earlier, in August, when a video of him skidding on a curvy road and falling off his bicycle went viral on social media. Indian Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev had a nasty fall on Tuesday while performing a deep breathing exercise, sitting on a decked-up elephant’s back in the Mahavan area-based Ramanreti Ashram. The video, which was filmed in Mathura, a city in Uttar Pradesh state which has gone viral on Twitter, shows the elephant get restless ; the 54-year-old Ramdev Baba […]
US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun met India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on the opening day of his two-day visit to New Delhi on Monday. New Delhi and Washington have been “too cautious” in developing strategic linkages among themselves and with other Quad countries because of China, US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun stated on Monday. “We have been too cautious,” Beigun said while delivering a keynote address at the India-US Forum in New Delhi on Monday evening. The US Deputy Secretary is on a two-day visit to India, which will be followed […]
India’s ruling BJP had set up a National Commission for Cattle – Rashtriya Kamdhenu Ayog – with over $68 million in funding in 2019 for the conservation, protection and development of cows and their progeny. Cows have always been part of the BJP’s core political agenda due to the Hindu tradition of venerating cattle. India’s federal government plans to ignite 330 million oil lamps, or Diyas, made of cow-dung on the occasion of India’s biggest festival of lights — Diwali — this year to counter Chinese products. It is like lighting one cow-dung-made lamp for each of the 330 million cattle worshipped […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0c/1080748284_0:139:2047:1291_1200x675_80_0_0_fd6a46eab28828614fcff2ae2a1460ad.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Radhika Parashar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202010121080746313-test-launch-of-indias-subsonic-nirbhay-cruise-missile-aborted-in-eight-minutes-heres-why/ India has been fast-tracking development and deployment of modern weapons amid the ongoing border tensions with China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh. A total of 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a brutal face-off with Chinese soldiers in mid-June. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) test fired the “Nirbhay” missile at 10:30 AM (IST) into the Bay of Bengal on Monday from a test facility in the Indian state of Odisha. However, just eight minutes later, the trial was aborted. This is the fourth time since 2013 […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/05/1080670902_0:42:3072:1770_1200x675_80_0_0_573cc9d8ad4af552e0d8b365e5c519bb.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202010121080744465-india-china-set-for-7th-round-of-military-talks-over-ladakh-border-dispute/ NEW DELHI (Sputnik) – India and China will hold on Monday the seventh round of negotiations between their military commanders for the disengagement of troops along the so-called Line of Actual Control (LAC) that demarcates their territories across the Himalayas in the Ladakh region. The talks are scheduled to begin at noon local time (06:30 GMT) in the Chushul village on the Chinese side of the LAC. As reported by Indian media, New Delhi during the talks will seek complete demilitarisation of East Ladakh, proposing that Beijing be the first to reduce the number […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/09/1080718832_0:140:3391:2047_1200x675_80_0_0_27af31f4de1fd733e9a4cf385c0d7ddc.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202010091080716159-indias-anti-terror-squad-arrests-aerospace-firm-employee-for-passing-secret-info-to-pakistan/ India’s defence and anti-terrorist services have been devising strategies and passing out instructions to make personnel of all ranks aware about the nuances of Pakistan’s espionage network. In the past, the Indian authorities have uncovered several espionage cases where Pakistani agents have honey-trapped personnel on social media. An employee of India’s state-funded Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has been arrested for supplying secret information to Pakistan’s spy agency the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Maharashtra State Police revealed on Friday. The man has been accused of supplying crucial information about fighter aircraft and their manufacturing unit to […]
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic India’s apex bank, the Reserve Bank of India, has infused liquidity worth $125 billion into the economy to stabilise financial markets. Central banks the world over have pumped $9 trillion into the global economy amid the pandemic. India’s apex bank RBI on Friday said the country’s economic growth, measured as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), is likely to contract by 9.5 percent in the current financial year (April 2020-March 2021). The growth projections were made by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das while announcing the key lending rates, which remained unchanged […]
Both India and Bangladesh have expressed concerns about possible links between Pakistan-located terror outfits and the Rohingya insurgent outfit Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA). Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has described the Rohingya refugees living in her country as a national security “threat”. China and India must exercise their economic and military clout over Myanmar to convince the Aung San Suu Kyi administration to expedite the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in the camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh Deputy High Commissioner to India Toufique Hasan has told Sputnik. Stating that India is helping Myanmar with an array of […]
The Indian economy nose-dived between April and June this year, with gross domestic product growth contracting 23.9 percent in the quarter that saw a strict lockdown due to the pandemic. In January – March this year, the country witnessed GDP growth of 3.1 percent. Maintaining that the South Asian economic situation is worse than ever, the World Bank on Thursday said India’s gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to contract by 9.6% in the current financial year (April 2020 – March 2021) due to the national lockdown and pandemic shock. In its latest report – South Asia Economic Focus – released […]
Draper Associates is backing the round for the Bangalore-based cryptocurrency exchange, with $3.5 million raised so far. Source link
A trade deal between India and the United States has been pending since last November. While the US wants more access to India’s dairy and meat market, India wants restoration of the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) which the Trump administration withdrew last June. Inviting American businesses to invest in India, Federal Commerce and Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has said a target of $500 billion for US-India bilateral trade in five years is “eminently doable”. “The bilateral trade between US & India grew from $126 billion in 2017 to $145 billion in 2019. The target we have set of $500 billion […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107337/45/1073374598_0:100:1920:1180_1200x675_80_0_0_89906fdf37bf08270d6fb2875d4c8fd9.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202010071080695646-indian-drug-regulator-allows-human-trials-for-antibody-treatment-for-covid-19-developed-from-horses/ For the therapy, which works similarly to plasma therapy to treat the novel coronavirus, the blood plasma is taken from horses. There horses were injected with an inactivated COVID-19 virus. After 21 days, the plasma samples taken from horses’ blood showed antibodies against the virus. The Indian drug regulatory body, the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), has given a nod for conducting phase-1 human trials for the “antisera” treatment against COVID-19 developed by taking antibodies from the blood of horses. The antibody treatment “antisera” was developed by India’s apex medical research body, the Indian […]
Japan is currently holding a QUAD foreign ministers’ meeting in Tokyo, which focuses on discussing alleged threats posed by China and its growing presence in the Indo-Pacific region. The four countries involved in QUAD are the US, Japan, India, and Australia. India and the United States have reaffirmed their commitment to ensuring stability in the Indo-Pacific region, which they claim has been disrupted due to China’s “assertive” behaviour in the region. Taking to Twitter following his meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo before the QUAD meeting, Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar said, “Began my Tokyo visit with a bilateral […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/0a/1080415965_0:0:2369:1332_1200x675_80_0_0_8c04ac987fd2977c54f6dca8552dc6de.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Advitya Bahl. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202010061080679724-india-shows-off-its-air-power-with-rafale-fighter-jets-ahead-of-iaf-day—video/ Keeping the COVID-19 pandemic in mind, the Indian Air Force is taking care of all the norms and guidelines. In a clear departure from tradition, schoolchildren and the general public will not be allowed to be live spectators of the grand ceremony. The Indian Air Force has conducted a full dress rehearsal, including air drills, at the Hindon Air Base in Ghaziabad ahead of Indian Air Force Day which is celebrated on 8 October. The grand ceremony is observed every year to mark the day the IAF was established in 1932. A […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107976/42/1079764252_0:303:3072:2031_1200x675_80_0_0_19340c3c76f52b1df062dbdf5cc6a359.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Ashutosh Kumar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202010031080651879-narendra-modi-opens-worlds-longest-tunnel-connecting-ladakh-takes-a-dig-at-congress/ The Manali – Lahaul Spiti tunnel named after former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will make Ladakh more accessible for those on the mainland cutting the travel distance and time significantly. Over the past six months, India and China have been embroiled in a border dispute in Ladakh. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday opened the strategic Manali-Lahaul Spiti tunnel connecting Ladakh. The tunnel reduces the road distance between Manali in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh and Leh in Ladakh by 46 km. It cuts travelling time by between four and […]
With 243 seats at stake, Bihar’s parliament is set to face an election on 28 October during the Covid-19 pandemic, with results out on 10 November. Stakes are high for both the ruling alliance of Janata Dal-United and Bharatiya Janata parties and on the other side Rashtriya Janata Dal and Congress in a state well-known for caste-ridden politics. With blaring loudspeakers and colourful hoardings at the main crossroads in Bihar’s capital city Patna, electioneering has returned to the State despite widespread fear of contracting Covid-19 amid a surging caseload. The State is quickly gearing up for a crucial full-fledged legislative assembly […]
As demand for bitcoin surges in India, especially in urban tech hubs, smart-contract platforms like Ethereum and others are also gaining momentum. Cosmos, promoted by the Switzerland-based Interchain Foundation, is especially finding traction with students like Aditya Nalini at the Vellore Institute of Technology in southern India. He’s one of four “ambassadors” trained by the community organization Cosmos India, founded in November 2019. The Cosmos India community grew from a handful people in 2019 to more than 1,000 participants in less than nine months, local organizers say, despite the pandemic. Nalini now holds the majority of his modest wealth in cryptocurrency, […]
India’s benchmark stock index, the Sensex shed almost 16,000 points within weeks after a COVID-19-induced nationwide lockdown was imposed in March. Even though it recovered almost 50 percent, doubts about US recovery and fresh lockdowns in Europe triggered a massive sell-off last week. Indian bourses were up in opening trading on Thursday on the back of strong global cues as well as further relaxations to COVID-related restrictions announced by the Indian Home Ministry. The Bombay Stock Exchange’s benchmark 30-share index, Sensex, zoomed 516 points to trade at 38,584. Similarly, the wider 50-share index of the National Stock Exchange (NSE), Nifty, was […]
India’s national carrier Air India is in severe financial crisis, prompting the government to seek bidders to buy a 100 percent stake in the 121-strong fleet. The full-service carrier is $8.3 billion in debt. Despite the bidding deadline being extended for the fourth time this year, experts point out why it may attract bidders this time. Founded by well-known Indian industrialist JRD Tata in 1932, and later taken over by the Indian government, Air India was a cause for pride and joy for the country. Since then, the carrier has gone from glory to financial burden on the exchequer. “The government […]
The barbaric rape case that recently disgraced the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) eventually led to the painful death of a 19-year-old girl who is believed to have met her fateful end because she belonged to a “lower caste”. The heinous crime was executed by four men allegedly from an “upper caste” in UP’s Hathras area on 14 September. In the early hours of Wednesday, the remains of a deceased rape victim were taken back to her Uttar Pradesh village from Delhi, where she breathed her last, but local policemen did not permit her body to be sent home one […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Rishikesh Kumar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/asia/202009301080617678-india-test-fires-extended-range-brahmos-cruise-missile-amid-deployment-near-china-border/ The Indian military has deployed 450 km-range BrahMos cruise missiles and 800 km-range Nirbhay cruise missiles in the Ladakh region, as tensions with China continue simmering despite several rounds of talks. India successfully test-fired an extended range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile with a domestically-manufactured booster from a test facility off the coast of Odisha on Wednesday morning. Defence officials said that the test of the missile, which can hit a target at a distance up to 450 kilometres, was carried out within the PJ-10 project of the Defence Research and Development Organisation […]
The requirement for a Dornier Maritime Surveillance aircraft was raised during the visit of former President Abdulla Yameen to India in 2016. While it could not get implemented earlier, the present Ibrahim Solih government has been able to see it through. Accelerating the already improved bilateral ties under the Solih government, India has handed over Dornier aircraft to the Maldivian National Defence Force (MNDF) on Tuesday, which will play a crucial role in search and rescue, maritime/EEZ surveillance for the Maldivians in the northern atolls. Maldivian pilots, observers and technical personnel have been undergoing training to operate the aircraft since June […]
India has accumulated huge oil reserves during the pandemic, taking advantage of the depressed prices and lack of demand across the world. State-funded strategic crude oil reserves are meant to tackle emergency situations and allow the Modi government to tide over short-term supply disruptions. The Indian government revealed on Tuesday that it is scouting locations in the US and other countries to store crude oil to nullify the adverse impact on the economy if supply is disrupted for months. Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan emphasised that New Delhi has aimed to improve the crude and petroleum products storage capacity from the existing […]
Amnesty International has suspended its work in India after the government blocked its funds in the country. The non-governmental organization (NGO) claims it has been unfairly persecuted by New Delhi. In a press release, Amnesty International India said its bank accounts had been frozen earlier this month and it was no longer able to carry out operations. The group claimed it had been targeted by India’s Enforcement Directorate, an investigative agency, because of its “unequivocal calls for transparency in the government.” In recent months, Amnesty has issued a number of reports harshly critical of the Indian government. The NGO has detailed […]
24-year-old Eshna Kutty from New Delhi has become an overnight sensation after her hula hoop dance video wearing a saree and sneakers crossed over a million views online. It is her unconventional attire that made the video a sensation, as the saree, a nine-yard piece of cloth wrapped rather tightly covering a woman’s entire body, is often not perceived as suitable for sports or physical activities. Hence, Eshna’s video sparked the #sareeflow trend, with many other women re-enacting her moves in different styles. Eshna spoke to Sputnik about the sudden limelight that the hula hoop has garnered in India and its overall […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a $266 billion stimulus package on 12 May to help the economy and industries tide over the disruption caused by the COVID -19 pandemic. The country’s top bank, RBI, also pumped in liquidity worth $125 billion to maintain stability in the domestic financial markets. India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said the country’s economy will continue to face “challenges of different nature” with no clear-cut end date for the pandemic and no sure-shot vaccine against the coronavirus in sight. In an interview with The Indian Express, Sitharaman said uncertainty is laying in the mind of big […]
Despite India being an important partner for the United States geopolitically, a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) is unlikely to be reached soon regardless of who wins the upcoming US presidential election. That’s according to Todd Buchholz, who served as the director of economic policy at the White House under President George H.W. Bush. He said as cited by the Economic Times that both US President Donald Trump and his opponent Joe Biden look at India amenably but have their own compulsions not to proceed with such a far-reaching deal. “I find it difficult to imagine that in four years’ time, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105602/74/1056027400_0:183:3500:2151_1200x675_80_0_0_c5cce4fee49aabf150c01cf6a493aaf5.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Radhika Parashar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202009241080556935-border-chumps-indian-users-mock-video-of-chinese-troops-facing-stern-challenges-in-himalayas/ Five months into the tensions, representatives from Asia’s most populous nations, India and China, have been engaging in talks to resolve border conflicts. Against the backdrop of the continued border tensions, netizens from both the countries have been indulging in a war of words, defending their respective countries on social media. The Global Times, China’s state-run news agency, has been regularly posting videos of Chinese troops training in the rough border terrains, flaunting the country’s might. Once again, the outlet has tweeted a snippet showing soldiers “facing stern challenges like landslides, wolf […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107756/51/1077565193_0:67:2854:1673_1200x675_80_0_0_d4cb63c2bd4f48ead7ee16196920ded8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Ashutosh Kumar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202009241080556131-indian-markets-crash-sensex-plunges-555-points-on-global-cues/ Even though the Indian equity markets have recovered almost 50 percent from their lockdown lows, concerns remain on the meteoric rise at a time when economic growth has turned negative. Indian Stocks crashed in opening trading on Thursday on the back of weak global cues. The Bombay Stock Exchange’s benchmark 30-share index, Sensex, fell 554.90 points to trade at 37,113 levels in early trading. Blue chip stocks like Mahindra and Mahindra, Infosys, and Bajaj Finance, among others, witnessed a sell off. Similarly the National Stock Exchange’s broader 50-share benchmark index, the Nifty […]
The Indian government had been working on consolidation of the scattered labour laws in the country over the last one year. At least 44 labour laws have been codified and consolidated in four bills over the past year. The Indian Parliament’s upper house, the Rajya Sabha passed three key labour reform bills on Wednesday amid a boycott from the opposition parties. The opposition parties believe the passage of the bills will provide industries with the unrestrained power to hire and fire workers whenever they like. The bills were passed in the lower house, the Lok Sabha, on Tuesday. The Bills in […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107955/50/1079555073_0:-1:1201:675_1200x675_80_0_0_dc79236e3cd376f5af3d46ae8264fc85.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202009231080546188-india-plans-3bln-drone-deal-with-us-to-keep-eye-on-border-with-china-reports-say/ NEW DELHI (Sputnik) – India is planning to purchase 30 General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper drones from the United States for approximately $3 billion and use them in the border region with China as well as strategic waterways, India Today reported on Wednesday, citing sources. The deal is expected to get an “acceptance of necessity” at an upcoming meeting of the Defence Acquisition Council, headed by Minister Rajnath Singh. Though the procedure is only the first step in weapons procurement, the deal, which has been in the pipeline over the past three years, will be […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/17/1080545177_0:0:3076:1730_1200x675_80_0_0_431f74a6e5894171ed6cf0788d014e21.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Radhika Parashar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202009231080544908-rains-reign-over-mumbai-again-leaving-city-waterlogged-roads-blocked–netizens-bewildered/ Marking the second-worst series of downpours in 26 years, India’s tinsel town Mumbai has been witnessing heavy torrential rainfall since Tuesday evening. As of now, rainfall of 273.6 mm has been recorded in Mumbai in less than 24 hours, turning city life upside down. Thick clouds and rumbling thunder ushered the torrential rain spells across the Indian city of Mumbai, from posh areas like Colaba to residential neighbourhoods like Bhayandar. Short phases of intense rainfall have also been reported from isolated areas of Mumbai, especially in the early hours of Wednesday morning. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106416/91/1064169187_0:99:1920:1179_1200x675_80_0_0_9cea889acafc02598005da4ab69ff173.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202009221080532049-rats-reportedly-mutilate-covid-19-victims-dead-body-at-private-hospital-in-india/ The incident has sparked political outrage in an Indian state, with former Madhya Pradesh State Chief Kamal Nath taking to Twitter to condemn the alleged medical negligence on the part of hospital authorities. The body of an 87-year-old patient who died of COVID-19 at a private hospital in India’s Madhya Pradesh state, has been found to have been partly consumed by rats, a Times of India report said on Tuesday. The patient was reportedly admitted to the private hospital on 17 September but died this Monday; his relatives opted to leave his corpse at […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/16/1080532427_0:6:3072:1734_1200x675_80_0_0_ac17cdaa93ee23c18b3501c8061f1e01.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Radhika Parashar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202009221080532199-death-toll-from-building-collapse-in-india-swells-to-20-as-rescue-efforts-continue-for-over-24/ In the early hours of Monday, a three-storey residential building in Bhiwandi, a city near Mumbai in India’s Maharashtra state collapsed, leaving many people under the rubble. In the day since a building crumbled in the Indian state of Maharashtra near Mumbai, the death toll in the incident has risen to 20. The deceased include eight children aged between 2 and 14. The incident occurred in Bhiwandi, a city of over 700 thousand people approximately 15 km away from Mumbai. Around 20-25 people are still feared trapped under the debris, with […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/0b/1080433096_0:81:3208:1885_1200x675_80_0_0_cabcb9f084098ade79129503ce3a8e15.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202009211080530063-india-has-no-plans-to-lower-chinas-trade-status-despite-border-tensions-minister-says/ NEW DELHI (Sputnik) – The Indian government has no plans to remove China’s most favored nation trade status despite the recent deadly clashes on the border between the two countries, the Indian minister of trade and commerce, Piyush Goyal, said on Monday. The minister had earlier been asked by Manoj Kotak, a member of the Indian parliament, whether New Delhi would withdraw Beijing’s status as a favored trading partner in light of the ongoing tensions. “No such proposal is under consideration at this time,” Goyal said in a written response to parliament. The World […]
India commissioned the first batch of women fighter pilots in June 2016, and over a year later the Indian Navy inducted its first female pilots to join its aviation branch. Women pilots in the Navy were initially restricted to fixed-wing aircraft operated from the shore. In a first for the Indian Navy, two women officers will be deployed on a frontline warship as part of its crew, while a female pilot is being trained to join the fleet of Rafale fighter jets. Sub Lt Kumudini Tyagi and Sub Lt Riti Singh will join as “observers” (tactical officers) in the helicopter stream […]
…by Press TV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: Russia now puts its Covid vaccine where its geopolitical mouth is. China already has several of its own in the pipeline. Putin sent a strong message to India as to who was able to assist an important ally more reliability, the US or Russia? Lost in all the Covid coverage is the long term debt disaster, due to Trump’s Covid debacle, with trillions of dollars that will enslave future generations of Americans in two ways. They will either have to pay the debt someday, impossible, or suffer low savings rates forever so that the […]
The double-humped camel was found to be best-suited for deployment in the high-altitude areas at the India-China border, as they can carry a load of upto 170 kg and go without water for 72 hours. The Indian Army will deploy doubled-humped camels for patrolling and transportation purposes in eastern Ladakh amid the standoff with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in the region, said a report in the Indian media. While the plan to deploy camels has been in the pipeline for three years, the first batch of 50-60 camels will finally be handed to the Indian Army in the next five-six months, […]
The security situation along India’s border with Pakistan and China have become tense: New Delhi has accused Islamabad of violating their ceasefire on the western border, and claimed that the China’s People’s Liberation Army has made multiple incursion attempts on the loosely-demarcated Line of Actual Control. Despite a violent faceoff between armies of India and China in eastern Ladakh and a continuing build-up on both sides, there have been no infiltration attempts along their border, India’s federal Home Ministry has informed Parliament. “No infiltration has been reported along the Indo-China border during the last six months,” India’s Junior Home Minister Nityanand […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/10/1080472817_51:-1:1251:675_1200x675_80_0_0_c006f39299adcba4d360825cdeeed918.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202009161080472162-awwwdorable-jumbo-baby-steps-into-vets-office-for-a-check-up/ We know “an elephant never forgets”, and this young pachyderm was easily able to remember that he had an appointment with the vet. Shared by Indian user Abhijeet Datar ,who captioned it “unimaginable”, a video of this adorable elephant walking calmly inside a veterinary hospital for an x-ray has been making the rounds on Twitter. With over a thousand likes, the snippet shows a veterinary doctor ushering the gentle giant inside the x-ray room. As the doctor sets up the machinery, the jumbo waits patiently before settling down for his examination. Once the vet […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107546/97/1075469732_0:107:2047:1258_1200x675_80_0_0_1118fc8c87db5da2d854e7c2e2202380.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Radhika Parashar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202009161080470429-53-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-near-kathmandu-nepal-sending-ripples-across-twitter/ In recent months, a string of earthquakes around the Indian subcontinent have been making headlines. While at one point, the majority of these earthquakes were rocking the Indian capital New Delhi, lately the tremors have been shaking up regions along India’s borders. In the early morning hours of Wednesday, a 5.3 magnitude earthquake was reported near Kathmandu, Nepal at a depth of 10 km from the surface, according to India’s National Centre for Seismology. Although no causalities have been reported as of now, Twitter reactions from Nepal asserted that the quake didn’t […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106834/58/1068345846_0:120:1280:840_1200x675_80_0_0_60b41f57ae698df2453f4501c713151d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Ashutosh Kumar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202009151080459685-asian-development-bank-predicts-9-contraction-in-indian-economy-this-year-due-to-covid-19/ Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a $266 billion stimulus package on 12 May to help the nation’s industrial sector and economy overcome the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday said the Indian economy will witness a contraction of 9 percent due to the difficulties caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth for fiscal year (FY) 2020 ending on 31 March 2021 is forecast to contract by 9 percent as the pandemic weighs heavily on economic activity and consumer sentiment […]
…by Sajjad Shaukat for VT Pak According to Britannica, the term, “Balkanization is used to refer to ethnic conflict within multiethnic states…coined at the end of World War I to describe the ethnic and political fragmentation that followed the breakup of the the Ottoman Empire, particularly in the Balkans. The term is today invoked to explain the disintegration of some multiethnic states and their devolution into dictatorship, ethnic cleansing [religious divisions] and civil war. In the early 1990s the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the collapse of the Soviet Union led to the emergence of several new states—many of which were unstable and ethnically mixed”. However, […]
India is not yet capable of becoming China’s economic rival in Iran, according to various pundits and lawmakers. Moreover, the United States is limiting New Delhi’s political ties with Tehran, according to experts commenting on the Indian Defence and Foreign Ministers’ visits to Iran. On 8 September, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar held talks with Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, the second Indian minister to visit Iran in recent days. On Sunday, 6 September, talks were held between Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Iranian Defence Minister Amir Khatami. India is concerned about Chinese cash becoming involved in a project to […]
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New Delhi and Beijing have agreed to ratchet down tensions that have been building along the disputed Chinese-Indian border, leading to skirmishes, as they announced a five-point de-escalation plan at a meeting in Moscow. Tensions have been flying high along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eatern Ladakh at the Chinese-Indian Himalayan border since May, and have repeatedly led to clashes between Indian and Chinese troops stationed in the sparsely populated mountainous area. The plan – agreed by India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202009111080424310-india-china-agree-to-protect-existing-border-agreements-avoid-escalation-of-tensions/ Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi met in Moscow on Thursday at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and discussed relations between India and China. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107810/05/1078100585_0:26:3326:1896_1200x675_80_0_0_a72f4bdf15ad471d6f859fcd34b11c1a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Radhika Parashar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202009101080418922-richer-meets-richest-mukesh-ambani-may-offer-jeff-bezos-20-billion-stake-in-reliance-retail/ At a time when the global economy is struck by pandemic woes, India’s biggest industrialist Mukesh Ambani has been seeing huge investments in his Reliance Industries, one of India’s most valuable companies. In recent months, Ambani’s oil-to-telecom company has garnered investments worth over $15 billion from foreign firms. Mukesh Ambani, who is currently the world’s seventh richest person, is considering selling 40 a percent stake in Reliance Retail worth $20 billion to online marketplace giant Amazon, headed by the world’s richest person Jeff Bezos, LiveMint reported on Thursday citing sources familiar with the matter. […]
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New Delhi has started an investigation to determine if the imports of certain flat rolled aluminum products from China were undercutting domestic prices from fiscal year 2017 to December 2019. The decision is based on a complaint by India’s aluminum and copper manufacturing company Hindalco Industries which alleges damage to the domestic industry due to the dumped goods. “The applicant has also claimed that imports are causing threat of material injury, considering significant increase in imports as compared to base year, significant surplus capacities in subject country, high export orientation of producers in subject country, and ability to scale up production […]
Singapore is the third-most popular destination for Indians working abroad after the United States and the Middle East. The Indian envoy has said that over 17,000 workers have already been flown back to India as part of the repatriation scheme put in place to accommodate Indians working abroad who have been affected by the coronavirus lockdown. Thousands of Indian workers are returning home as Singapore has slashed its business workforce amid the pandemic and the economic strain inflicted by it, according to Indian High Commissioner P. Kumaran. Kumaran has said in a statement that “on an average, about 100 Indian nationals in Singapore continue […]
In recent months, US-based search engine giant Google has been sharing details of top searches observed around the world. Between June and August, Google searches have shown topics like Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death and Coronavirus prevention methods trending in India. On Monday Google revealed that topics like the Russia-based first COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, and the Pakistan versus England T20 cricket match emerged as top trends in India. Google searches for “Sputnik” and “Sputnik vaccine” spiked by over 3,300 percent and over 2,750 percent respectively, suggested media reports citing the Google list. The world’s first vaccine against the COVID-19 oronavirus, jointly […]
Since it’s similar to other financial assets, India should legitimize bitcoin by regulating it like a corporate stock, according Deepak Kapoor. Source link
Tibetans have been joining the Indian Army’s all-Tibetan unit, the Special Frontier Force, since the India-China war in 1962. According to reports, China is none too pleased about India rushing additional SFF troops to the contested Ladakh border. India paid a public and thunderous tribute to Tibetan soldier Nyima Tenzin, who died in a landmine blast carrying out an Indian Army operation on the southern bank of Pangong Tso (lake) in Ladakh against China. Hundreds of Indians, including ruling party politician Ram Madhav attended a wreath-laying ceremony for the Tibetan soldier Nyima Tenzin in Ladakh on Monday and paid last respects […]
“We were there four months—or George and I were. We lost thirteen pounds and (barely) looked a day older,” John Lennon told a BBC reporter while promoting the Beatles’ new business venture, Apple Records, of The Fab Four’s 1968 visit to India to study with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. “I don’t know what level he’s on, but we had a nice holiday in India and came back rested-to-play businessmen.” “He’s on the level,” Paul McCartney, ever the diplomat, chimed in. Fifty-two years ago, in the spring of 1968, the Beatles traveled to Rishikesh, India, to study with Maharishi, after meeting the ambassador […]
People wait in a queue to register their names before giving their nasal swab samples to test for COVID-19 at a government health center in Hyderabad, India on Saturday. India’s coronavirus cases have crossed 4 million. Mahesh Kumar A/AP hide caption toggle caption Mahesh Kumar A/AP People wait in a queue to register their names before giving their nasal swab samples to test for COVID-19 at a government health center in Hyderabad, India on Saturday. India’s coronavirus cases have crossed 4 million. Mahesh Kumar A/AP India passed 4 million reported cases of COVID-19 on Saturday. Since July, India has had the […]
On 19 August, the Indian cabinet gave its approval to a proposal to lease out the Jaipur, Guwahati, and Thiruvananthapuram airports, currently run by the government agency Airports Authority of India (AAI) to the private sector. In February of this year, India’s Adani Group took over three AAI airports at Ahmedabad, Mangaluru, and Lucknow. Indian opposition Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday slammed a decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to privatise state-run companies. Taking to Twitter against the sale of three airports – Jaipur, Guwahati, and Thiruvananthapuram – to private firms, Rahul Gandhi said that “maximum privatisation seems […]
India and China have been engaged in a standoff at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the eastern Ladakh sector since late April which saw its climax on 15 June with a bloody skirmish between the armies of the two countries in which 20 Indian soldiers lost their lives. US President Donald Trump has called the ongoing tensions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh between India and China a “very nasty” situation and reiterated his offer to mediate in the border dispute Trump said, “While we are at it, we are talking about China and India, they are […]
In 1947, India finally won back its independence from the discriminatory colonial regime that prevented Indians from growing in their own motherland. In the last 73 years, free India has had to struggle with several roadblocks on the path to development – and one of them has been providing education to as many children as possible. Thousands of poor Indians still dwell on the streets, and as their daily struggle is to make enough to afford one meal a day, educating their kids doesn’t quite make it on their list of priorities. No government scheme matters to these underprivileged people, who […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009051080371758-chinese-defence-ministry-says-india-responsible-for-escalation-of-border-tensions/ BEIJING (Sputnik) – Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe told his Indian counterpart, Rajnath Singh, that New Delhi is fully responsible for the escalation of tensions in the border area. “The border issues have recently significantly impacted the relations between our countries and armed forces. Causes and the real situation, which have resulted in the current border tensions, are absolutely clear: the Indian party is fully responsible for that”, the Chinese minister said, as quoted by the national Ministry of Defence. He added that China would firmly protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity. Both ministers […]
While announcing a $266 billion COVID relief package in May, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a call for a self-reliant economy that envisages import substitution and an export push through local manufacturing. In a move that will help India gain an advantage amid companies shifting their manufacturing base out of China in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Japan has included India and Bangladesh in a list of relocation destinations. Japan provides a subsidy to its manufacturers who shift their base out of China to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Welcoming Japan’s decision to add India to the subsidy destination […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107903/66/1079036628_0:0:3152:1773_1200x675_80_0_0_374b54a142698bb88fd4185f07765d32.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Ashutosh Kumar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202009041080362612-indian-bourses-plunge-on-global-cues-sensex-down-625-points-in-opening-trading/ India’s benchmark stock index Sensex crashed from a peak over 42,000 points in February to just 26,000 when the COVID-19-caused lockdown was announced in the country in late March. The index has rebounded by almost 50 percent from its March lows. Indian bourses crashed in opening trading on Friday in tandem with a global sell-off triggered by tumbling technology stocks in the US, sending shockwaves across Asian bourses. The Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex tanked 625.93 points to trade at 38,365 in the opening session, registering a 1.61 percent fall. Similarly, the National Stock […]
There has been a significant spike in the number of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency attacks perpetrated via Twitter in recent months. On 15 July, verified accounts of public personalities and global firms including those of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Kanye West, Joe Biden, Apple, Uber and many more were compromised to a major crypto-hack. In the early hours of Thursday, the official Twitter account linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal website and mobile app was hacked. The hackers posted tweets inviting cryptocurrency-based donations to the PM National Relief Fund. Started in 2011, the account has 2.5 million followers, 37,000 posted […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/104879/05/1048790548_14:0:2766:1548_1200x675_80_0_0_f5db81a92d3a523f81a0f42816bfb795.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Rishikesh Kumar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/military/202009011080339005-india-russia-deploy-warships-for-no-contact-drills-near-strategic-malacca-strait-in-indian-ocean/ India and Russia have lined up a series of bilateral engagements over the next 10 days, including the visit of Indian defence minister Rajnath Singh to Moscow later this week. The talks will also touch on the issue of the early delivery of the S-400, quick reaction missile system; officials in New Delhi told Sputnik. India has deployed destroyers, frigates and corvettes to carry out a naval exercise near the strategically-located Strait of Malacca later this week. A government official in New Delhi told Sputnik that the INDRA NAVY–2020 exercise will take […]
The Indian government has faced a lot of criticism for allowing several undergraduate exams for medical and engineering students. But quashing a plea challenging the government’s decision, the Supreme Court of India had held that “life must go on”. Examination centres across India started Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)-Main for undergraduate engineering aspirants on Tuesday, despite opposition from students and political parties. The centres featured staggered seating, and masks and sanitisers were made available to students. Outside scenario of JEE exam centre. What if students parents get corona because of the stubborn attitude of govt. What about the SOPs outside JEE centre, […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): India’s apex court last week forbid Muharram processions in the country amid a rising number of coronavirus cases there, saying it could lead to “chaos” and “targeting of a particular community for spreading COVID-19”. Defying the Supreme Court of India, hundreds of Muslims converged on the streets to join the annual Muharram processions in the Indian city of Hyderabad in Telangana state despite the raging coronavirus pandemic. The mourners gathered wearing black clothes in accordance with custom, and conducted the processions while performing ceremonial chest-beating. The participants were seen not maintaining social distancing and without face masks in the […]
The Indian military has accused China of violating the status quo with “provocative military movements” along the disputed border in Eastern Ladakh. There were intense clashes between the two nations in the area earlier this year. Indian troops have pre-empted the Sunday night maneuvers of the Chinese military on the southern bank of the Pangong Tso Lake and strengthened their positions to “thwart Chinese intentions to unilaterally change facts on ground,” the Indian side said in a statement on Monday. China did not immediately comment on the allegations. India would not provide details of what exactly had happened overnight, but expressed […]
India recorded 78,761 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, pushing the global total past 25 million. Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images India recorded 78,761 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, pushing the global total past 25 million. Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images The number of cases of the coronavirus has now passed 25 million worldwide. The milestone happened Sunday, fueled by a surge of more than 78,000 cases in India on Saturday. The spread of the virus in India has grown in recent weeks, with daily cases there now outpacing both the United States […]
India has reported 78,761 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, marking the biggest-ever daily increase for a nation. The number of coronavirus infections in the world passed the 25 million mark on Sunday. Before Sunday’s update, which pushed the total number of infections in India to more than 2.5 million, the US held the record with 77,638 daily infections reported on July 17. The surge in India comes shortly after the government eased lockdown restrictions, to alleviate pressure on the economy. The disease is continuing to spread globally and even countries that have fared better so far like New Zealand and […]
Sputnik (New Delhi): To maintain stability, India’s banking regulator, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has pumped an additional $127 billion into the financial market as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. At present, the RBI has foreign exchange reserves said to be worth an estimated $538 billion. When the Board of India’s apex bank, RBI, met earlier this month, it had a prominent agenda, even though officially the meeting was convened to approve a dividend of $7.6 billion to the Indian government. The board discussed a phenomenal rise in the foreign exchange reserves held by banking regulator Reserve Bank […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107835/10/1078351087_0:531:1530:1391_1200x675_80_0_0_60b82b736e2ba52b5d51ca433099d2c6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Radhika Parashar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202008271080293351-at-3000-metres-above-sea-level-indian-aviation-regulator-releases-draft-rules-on-in-flight-wi-fi/ New Delhi (Sputnik): In March this year, India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) confirmed that airlines will now be permitted to offer Wi-Fi connectivity for laptops, smartphones, tablets, smart watches, and e-readers for flyers travelling within the country, specifying that the services would be offered only on their device’s flight mode. India’s aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), on Thursday released draft rules for the use of in-flight Wi-Fi on portable electronic devices (PEDs). As part of the draft rules for Internet services inside aircraft flying in Indian airspace, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107719/10/1077191097_0:35:1200:710_1200x675_80_0_0_5b2432865652d3382cefdcd780514525.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202008271080289948-indian-star-couple-anushka-sharma-virat-kohli-announce-their-1st-baby-wishes-memes-flood-twitter/ New Delhi (Sputnik): Bollywood beauty Anushka Sharma married Virat Kohli, captain of the Indian cricket team after a long courtship in December 2017. Their dreamy, fairy tale-like wedding was a private function in Milan, Italy and pictures from the ceremony broke the internet. The couple is now ready to step into the next stage, parenthood. Both Anushka and Virat on Thursday took to Instagram to share the announcement of their first baby with an adorable snap. The picture shared by the couple shows the expecting mother in a black and white polka dot dress […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107746/32/1077463252_0:44:2999:1730_1200x675_80_0_0_a07e51a46897660efe6cac548f78321e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Shweta Sharma. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202008251080270586-crime-meter-running-at-twice-the-speed-priyanka-gandhi-slams-uttar-pradesh-state-chief/ New Delhi (New Delhi): Priyanka Gandhi hasn’t yet stepped into electoral politics, but she is strategically placed after being the general secretary of east Uttar Pradesh during the 2019 general election. With a striking resemblance to her grandmother, former prime minister Indira Gandhi, she is often portrayed as the future of the Congress party. Congress party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra accused the government of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday of hiding incidents of crime in the State, as she launched a blistering attack on State Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over the spike in crimes. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106896/63/1068966374_0:210:2598:1672_1199x675_80_0_0_50c68722997a24e9152b3b7b7108f286.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202008251080269690-you-like-cats-what-do-you-think-about-this-wild-kitty-chase—video/ New Delhi (Sputnik): India is home to nearly 3,000 tigers – the big cat species, which is also recognized as India’s national animal. The Bengal Tigers that thrive here are native and limited to India, and are famous worldwide. Every year, thousands of tourists flock to tiger reserves to catch a glimpse of these jungle royalties. Sometimes, these big cats make their way onto the highways surrounding their forest homes. leading to human-animal conflict situations. Indian Forest Services officer Parveen Kaswan on Tuesday shared a bone-chilling video from Wayanad – a district in the north-east part […]
Last week, Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs (WMCC) met for the 18th time to discuss disengagement of troops along the Line of Actual Control. The status quo ante needs to be restored to that of before May 2020. The troops have been in a border stand-off for almost five months. India’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat has clearly signalled a military option to deal with transgressions by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in Ladakh if talks between the two armies and the diplomatic option do not yield the desired results along the 4,057 km […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): India’s Congress party, which has been associated with the national freedom movement, is now in dire straits over leadership issues. Since 2014, when the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party swept general elections, the Congress has been reduced to an abysmal tally in the Parliament and also lost power in several major states. Nearly 23 senior Congress members and lawmakers have written to the party’s interim chief Sonia Gandhi, urging her to consider the complete overhaul of the party leadership. In the letter, the members of the party stated that the “uncertainty” over the leadership demoralises the cadre and has […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Drenched in a glorious past and cloaked with traditions and culture, festivals showcase the spirit of the Indian way of life. As celebrations and reminders of India’s secularity, its 1.35 billion people get together in at least 36 annual festivals, most of which begin after Ganesha Chaturthi. Indians are beginning to celebrate Ganesha Chaturthi, or the birthday of Lord Ganesha on Saturday, and the festivities will continue for 11 days in different parts of the country. In the state of Maharashtra, it is the most awaited occasion of the year. Worshipped as “Mangalkarta”, a God of auspiciousness, and […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): From social networking to internet browsing and shopping, India has an array of domestically-made apps to help users earlier accustomed to Chinese platforms before they were banned last month over an ongoing border standoff. Developers are exploring newer and trendier services to offer India’s 400 million smartphone users. From providing “early warnings” about floods to “meme and keyboard” apps that allow people to create their own jokes, Indian software developers have won accolades from the Narendra Modi government against the backdrop of a “digital strike” against China by the authorities. With the slogan “Go Vocal For Local”, India […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/15/1080237321_0:0:1256:707_1200x675_80_0_0_ee76160c04322185333c984d4e8967c8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202008211080236993-bh-please-i-can-protect-myself-buffalo-walks-away-with-security-post-in-india–video/ Herds of buffalo and cows wandering freely in jam-packed Indian cities, mostly in rural areas, are a common sight. It is motorists and pedestrians who make way for these free-willed beasts or slow down to let them pass. It seems this buffalo trusts no one with its security and took things in its own hooves to avoid getting into an ugly crash with cars. A hilarious video from India shows a buffalo walking on the streets with a whole set of barricades. The buffalo tried to walk past through a wheel barricade but ended […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The worst border skirmish between India and China in the last 50 years has cast a dark cloud over the economic, diplomatic, and cultural ties of the two countries, with traders, businessmen, and consumers bearing the brunt of strained relations. Indian acupuncturists underscore politics should not be intermingled with medicine. “For me, it’s nothing less than magic”, exulted Jahnvi Tyagi, 53, who has seen a “huge change” from multiple migraine attacks per weeks to just one or two minor ones in 15 days after receiving several sessions of acupuncture in the Green Park area of New Delhi. Tyagi […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Previously, India used Boeing 747 jets from the Air India fleet to fly VVIPs. These planes were occasionally also used to fly members of the general public. However, the new plane is exclusively meant for the highest dignitaries of the country. A wide-bodied Boeing 777-300 ER, exclusively meant for VVIPs of the country, such as the prime minister, the vice-president, and the president, is set to arrive in India next week. The State of the Art , VVVIP🇮🇳 ‘Air India One’ arrives in India Next Week The aircraft will have Bharat and India written over it, besides the […]
Rescue teams were called in after an explosion and a fire were reported inside an underground facility at a hydroelectric dam in India. Nine people are believed to be trapped inside. According to local media, a fire broke out inside an underground power plant at the Srisailam Dam in Telangana State on Thursday night. Videos from the scene show engineers with fire extinguishers rushing to put out a bright blaze raging on one of the power units. Initial reports say that a short circuit may have caused the fire. #Telangana CM #KCR expressed shock over accident that took place at #Srisailam […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The Indian states of Haryana and Punjab are the “breadbasket” of India and were the centre of the green revolution in the country. While the former is the 4th largest producer of wheat and sixth in terms of food grains, the latter contributes 13-14 percent to the nation’s total grain production. While some Indian states are dealing with floods that have resulted in harrowing death tolls and displacement, agricultural belt states such as Punjab and Haryana are facing an acute drought as they are running out of water altogether. Ramandeep Singh Mann, a farm activist tells Sputnik, there’s […]
Despite having the third-highest COVID-19 burden, India’s global efforts in containing the pandemic by offering aid and assistance to countries in need have been appreciated worldwide. Moreover, India has not only been successful in rescuing its citizens stranded abroad but has also set an example by devising an ambitious plan to treat them. With sustained, pre-emptive, and timely interventions over two million people in India have successfully recovered from COVID-19 so far. The recovery rate continues to register an upward trend and stands at 73.64 percent as of Wednesday. The case fatality rate continues to show a steady decline and now […]