Prachanda arrives on 4-day trip, border, energy issues on agenda

Prachanda (68), who is visiting India for the third time as Prime Minister, will also call on President Droupadi Murmu and Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar. For India too, one of the main focus areas will be on finalising ways to deepen power cooperation through fresh initiatives. Nepal currently exports over 450 MW of electricity to India.

June 01, 2023 at 01:48AM

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After lull, violence in Manipur amid home minister Amit Shah's call for peace

The arson was concentrated in Imphal East, but gunshots reverberated through the valley and the hills as security forces went after suspected militants targeting civilians at various places, including Bishnupur and Churachandpur. Two people were reported wounded in the crossfire.

June 01, 2023 at 12:55AM

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3 terrorists arrested with 10kg IED, weapons, drugs along LoC in J&K

The recovery included an AK-56 rifle with balance 10 rounds in the magazine (rest of the ammunition had been fired by the terrorist who was injured), two pistols with two magazines, 70 pistol rounds, one IED weighing around 10-12kg, six Chinese grenades and 20 packets of narcotics, the Lt Col added.

June 01, 2023 at 12:15AM

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60% of CSE top - 20 are women, 25% from UP

Junior minister Jitendra Singh said the fact that first four rank-holders and 60% of the top 20 are women "is a great reflection of demographic changes happening in the last nine years of the Modi government". "I hope for a hat-trick in the Civil Services Examination 2023," Singh said while felicitating the 20 toppers at his North Block office.

May 31, 2023 at 04:02AM

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Can't make citizens choose between right to edu and right to exercise reproductive autonomy: HC

"A man could then well enjoy parenthood while pursuing higher education, whereas a woman necessarily has to undergo pre and post-pregnancy care. It is not her choice, but the will of nature. What is, however, left for us to decide is the consequence we would impose upon a woman who bears a child," a single judge bench of Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav said in his order on the plea.

May 31, 2023 at 02:27AM

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Rs 10 lakh, job for kin of dead: Amit Shah's balm for riot-hit Manipur

The compensation payable to the kin of the victims, numbering at least 80 people from the majority Meitei and tribal Kuki communities, will be contributed equally by the Centre and the state government, officials said.

May 31, 2023 at 02:25AM

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Cross-border narco-terror root of Manipur violence: PIL

"The serious issues of narco-terrorism and external aggression posing threat to national security is prevalent in Manipur and the resultant fallout is the present human crisis wherein a large number of people have been displaced from their homes disturbing normal life in the state," said the petitioner - NGO 'People's Alliance for Peace and Progress, Manipur'.

May 31, 2023 at 02:01AM

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LeT leader who indoctrinated 26/11 terrorists who attacked Mumbai dies in Pakistan jail

A court in Pakistan had sentenced him to prison time along with two other JuD leaders, Malik Zafar Iqbal and Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki, in August 2020 for financing terror, ahead of a September 2020 deadline for Pakistan to avoid being blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global financial watchdog, for failing to curb “terror financing”.

May 31, 2023 at 12:26AM

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10 killed in 24 hours in Manipur, Army steps up vigil

Union home minister Amit Shah's first visit to the state since the ethnic clashes broke out on May 3 was preceded by another civilian, identified as a Meitei, being killed and one more wounded in the Wakhanphai area near Imphal East district. Nine people, including two policemen and a suspected militant, were killed overnight in Imphal East and Kakching districts.

May 30, 2023 at 03:48AM

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'Precautionary' landing for IAF copter after minor tech snag

"The pilot and the weapons systems operator are both safe. There was no damage to the helicopter," an IAF officer said. The pilot went for the precautionary landing after "a warning light" went off in the cockpit.

May 30, 2023 at 03:11AM

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