New Delhi, Sep 12 (UNI) The Central Government on Thursday transferred 33 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and 45 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers of the AGMUT cadre. According to the order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, one IAS officer and three IPS officers have been transferred out of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). However,…
Geneva/New Delhi, Sep 12 (UNI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that India and China have made “some progress” in resolving outstanding issues related to their border talks, and “roughly 75 per cent of the disengagement problems are sorted out”. Speaking at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy think tank, the EAM said that…
Geneva/New Delhi, Sep 12 (UNI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who is visiting Geneva, on Thursday met Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. In posts on X, the EAM said: “Good to meet @volker_turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva today. “Shared India’s perspectives…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (UNI) Terming as “unsavoury” the recent remarks by BJP leader Ram Kumar Gautam and spiritual leader Maha Vishnu on disabled people, a disability rights group on Thursday called for stringent punishments to perpetrators who “deliberately reinforce prejudice and stigmatisation of the disabled.” National Centre for Promotion of Employment of Disabled People…
St Petersburg/New Delhi, Sep 12 (UNI) National Security Advisor Ajit Doval met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Saint Petersburg, Russia, today during which both sides agreed to work with urgency and redouble their efforts to realize complete disengagement in the remaining areas of the LAC. Doval and Wang, member of the Political Bureau of…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (UNI) Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Navy on Thursday successfully conducted the flight test of the Vertical Launch Short Range Surface-to-Air Missile (VL-SRSAM) from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Chandipur, off the coast of Odisha, at around 1500 hours. The flight test was carried out from…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (UNI) President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior leaders on Thursday expressed grief over the death of Veteran CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury here. In a social media post on X President Murmu said, “Saddened to learn about the demise of CPI (M) general secretary Shri Sitaram Yechury….
St Petersburg/New Delhi, Sep 12 (UNI) Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Thursday met Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Konstantinovsky Palace in St Petersburg. During the meeting President Putin proposed to hold a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 22, on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Kazan. During…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (UNI) Forty-five Indian nationals recruited by the Russian Army for fighting on the Ukraine war front have returned home so far, and India is striving for the return of 50-odd Indians who are still with the Russian Army, the Ministry of External Affairs said today. Answering questions at a media briefing,…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (UNI) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday expressed condolences over the death of Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, stating that his demise is a huge loss for Indian politics. In a social media post on X, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and former Deputy Chief Minister…
