Category: NATIONAL

WUHAN:  PM Modi and Chinese president Xi Jinping have agreed to improve communication between the militaries of the two countries to maintain peace at the border. India and China on Saturday issued “strategic guidance” to their respective militaries to strengthen communication in order to build trust and mutual understanding in the management of border affairs. President Xi said he hoped the Wuhan summit “opens a new chapter”, and said he hoped to have “many more such summits” with the PM Modi. “China and India are both important engines for global growth…

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By: Rebecca Brindza ISRAEL: Policymakers in the present day have grown increasingly aware of the “multidimensional set of social processes that create, multiply, stretch, and intensify worldwide social interdependencies and exchanges while at the same time fostering in people a growing awareness of deepening connections between the local and the distant.” (Steger, 2005). Therefore, it is no surprise that within the globalized era, national policies have become deeply intertwined with global issues. This is echoed by the fact that developing states are increasingly susceptible to happenings in the global arena, and as…

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JODHPUR: A trial court in Jodhpur, has pronounced life term for Asaram who was convicted of raping a teenager from Shahajahanpur in Uttar Pradesh. Madhusudan Sharma, a special judge at the Jodhpur Schedule Caste And Schedule Tribe Court, had earlier today convicted the self-styled godman and two of his associates – Shilpi and Sharad – in the 2013 case. Asaram has been convicted under Sec. 376 of IPC and POCSO Act. Co-convicts Sharatchandra and Shilpi have been sentenced to 20 years in jail; two other aides have been acquitted. Asaram was found guilty of raping a…

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External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday met Chinese president Xi Jinping, along with top officials of both countries in Beijing.  External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, who is on a visit to Beijing, made the remarks during a programme, titled ‘Contribution of Hindi in India-China Friendship’, organised by the India Embassy. Swaraj is on a two-nation visit to China and Mongolia, as part of which she will participate in a ministerial-level meeting of the SCO, where India became a full member in 2017. Swaraj said that during her meeting with Chinese…

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Gadchiroli is one of the worst Naxal-hit areas of Maharashtra and the police had launched a massive manhunt to nab the Naxalites. MUMBAI: 16 Naxals were killed in an encounter with police commandos and CRPF personnel in Gadchiroli district in east Maharashtra today, a senior official said.Search operations are still on as it is suspected that Naxalites could launch attacks during the night on security forces. As the massive encounter broke out between the security forces and Naxals operating in Boria jungle, the anti-Naxal squad of Gadchiroli police launched a combing operation in thick jungles located…

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NEW DELHI: The seven parties, including the Congress, that moved the impeachment notice against Dipak Misra, listed out five counts of “misbehaviour” which include a charge that the CJI brought a piece of land by filing an affidavit later found to be “false” and he returned the plot only in 2012 after he was elevated even though the same was cancelled in 1985. On April 20 2018, seven opposition parties submitted a petition seeking impeachment of Dipak Misra to the Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, with signatures from 71 parliamentarians. A delegation…

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By: Dr. Sanchita Ghatak, Associate Editor-ICN Group LUCKNOW: A middle class salaried person that I am. I am paying almost one month’s salary as my yearly income tax. I like a natural internet addict opened google and searched for the real meaning of tax. Wonderfully Wikipedia explained me that Tax is “a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers’ income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions.” But hey , immediately below was also mentioned that it  is “…

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By: Dr. Kumar Raka, Bureau Chief-ICN Delhi ISRAEL: School Safety Programme is one of the most important components of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). In order to save children’s lives and protect damages in infrastructures and investments costs in the education sector, all the States should be committed and started implementing school safety programmes in line with the Guidelines of Govt. of India. Recently, the Supreme Court of India directed all state governments to ensure that the Centre’s guidelines on safety and security of children are implemented in “reality” in every school…

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By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: Once again the Supreme Court of India had to intervene in the mass destruction to ecology being caused by certain fraudulent builders in Kasauli who had made inroads not only in the fragile hills for their financial gains but also into the state’s soft peddling  authorities. Finally the Honourable Supreme Court in its judgement on Tuesday  has ordered demolition of unauthorised structures in 12 resorts at Kasauli within a period of 15 days. Upholding the orders of National Green Tribunal, the supreme court observed…

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