Spread the love       Jaishankar with Australian foreign minister Penny Wong, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Japan foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi during Quad Foreign Ministers Meeting India’s policy of “multi-alignment” and strategic autonomy was evident in Manila Wednesday as external affairs minister S Jaishankar met his China counterpart Wang Yi in the Philippines and also joined a meeting of...

Spread the love       Jaishankar with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi External affairs minister S Jaishankar underlined the significance of fair market access, trade balance and supply chain reliability in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, while welcoming recent measures to normalise Sino-Indian ties like the upgrading of the visa framework and resumption of direct flights, Kailash pilgrimage and border...

Spread the love       The deceased, Rifleman Sukhpreet Singh, was a native of Punjab (Representative image) JAMMU: A 27-year-old Army jawan died after accidentally slipping from a height near the Line of Control (LoC) in J&K’s Rajouri district on Wednesday.The deceased, Rifleman Sukhpreet Singh, was a native of Punjab and posted with JAK Rifles. He was on duty at Mahadev forward...

Spread the love       New York City has opened applications for a new kind of government job. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Monday that the city is recruiting software engineers, product designers, product managers, user researchers, service designers and data experts to staff what he is calling Public Interest Technology Crews—PIT Crews, a pun the mayor committed to by rolling up...

Spread the love       Salman Khan backs students’ protest against paper leaks, says they deserve full credit for peaceful movement: ‘It should not be hijacked politically’ Bollywood star Salman Khan has voiced his support for students protesting against paper leaks, calling the issue “very serious” and urging that the movement remain focused on education rather than politics.Taking to Instagram, Salman praised...

Spread the love       Plainclothes police involvement in protests drew criticism for lacking uniforms and identification. NEW DELHI: Visuals of Monday’s protest showed a few men in civilian clothes, wearing little more than shirts, trousers and chappals, yet equipped with police helmets and actively engaged in crowd control, wielding lathis.The images attracted sharp criticism regarding who these people were and why...

Spread the love       Volunteers at work — from clearing garbage to making human chains (Photo credit: Devanshi Mehta, Piyal Bhattacharjee) NEW DELHI: Under humid conditions, an informal network of volunteers is holding the CJP protest together.From afar, it is a sea of anger, loud chants; up close, it is a tapestry of care, held together by shared shade and hand-woven...

Spread the love       Protestors at Jantar Mantar NEW DELHI: Twenty-year-old Aaheli Bhattacharjee from Asansol sat near the stage at Jantar Mantar, the one dismantled Monday, her arms and legs wrapped in bandages. Barely able to make out the figures approaching her after losing her spectacles during the July 20 police action, she nevertheless returned to encourage fellow students.“My mother doesn’t...

Spread the love       A worker ant of the species Temnothorax nylanderi infected with the tapeworm Anomotaenia brevis, recognizable by its yellowish coloration, alongside an uninfected worker (Credit: Susanne Foitzik) Deep inside the damp leaf litter of the Lenneberg Forest near Mainz, Germany, tiny worker ants of the species Temnothorax nylanderi are living surprisingly long lives. While a normal worker ant...

Spread the love       Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah. (AFP file photo) NEW DELHI: Nepal prime minister Balendra Shah is set to break his self-imposed rule of avoiding one-on-one meetings with foreign diplomats by holding separate talks with Indian ambassador Naveen Srivastava and Chinese ambassador Zhang Maoming this week, a diplomatic reset that comes as his govt faces growing street protests...