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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said that decision on Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) should have been taken during 1971 war between India and the neighbouring country.
Sachin Tendulkar has termed playing under Aunshuman Gaekwad as some of the "better years" of his cricketing career and that the former India coach was someone who could always be trusted.
Addressing a symposium on the international situation and China's foreign relations in 2022, Wang said both countries have maintained communication through diplomatic and military-to-military channels.
Over 68,000 Army soldiers, around 90 tanks and other weapon systems were airlifted by the Indian Air Force to eastern Ladakh from across the country for rapid deployment along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) after the deadly clashes in the Galwan Valley, top sources in defence and security establishment said.
On the eve of the first post 26/11 Indo-Pak foreign secretary talks, the US is optimistic about it resulting in a sustained dialogue between the two for moving towards a more normalised relation.
"Ban's spokesperson issued the e-mail on his own, misquoting the secretary general. And some of the separatist leaders tried to exploit it by claiming that the SG is calling for dialogue between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir issue," the sources said. "The issue has been settled despite what some news media is claiming."
There is the problem of regions in the North East being theatre for power-play by nations with borders and influences converging in those parts, which in turn requires a sizable presence of the armed forces, notes Shyam G Menon.
In an extraordinary step, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Friday served a legal notice on Press Trust of India for reporting that he appeared to be absentminded when called upon to make a statement by the Lok Sabha Speaker.
Australian pace spearhead Brett Lee feels the Sydney Test furore that almost derailed India's cricket tour Down Under was a result of "contentious umpiring" and the World champions' much-cricticised behaviour was in no way responsible for the controversy.
'Why do I have this feeling... why India could not pick their XI in last two years. It's a very strange thing to me that your squad is not settled. Who is your No. 4, where will Virat (Kohli) play 3, 4 or 5?'
'India matters significantly to President Biden and to this administration, and not just in South Asia or the Indo-Pacific region, but truly globally.'
Di Venuto said Australia's batting plans were working well till a dramatic collapse saw them lose eight wickets for 28 runs.
The IAF said the details are held by it in fiduciary
In a post on X, Modi said, "Happy to have welcomed @POTUS @JoeBiden to 7, Lok Kalyan Marg. Our meeting was very productive."
Fethullah Gulen Terrorist Organisation, blamed for last month's failed coup to topple President Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, has infiltrated" India, according to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
The first state visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the US is likely to be a defining moment for Indo-US relationship and both sides are working on a robust outcome document that may take up matters that would decide the contour of the bilateral ties for decades to come, according to people familiar with the planning of the high-profile trip.
The rebuttal of charges of forged signatures and absent beneficiaries by Zakir Hussain Memorial trust climaxed, literally, on Sunday, when during a media interaction Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid and the director of the trust, his wife Louise Khurshid, reproduced Rangee Mistri, a beneficiary, before mediapersons. Priyanka reports from New Delhi.
This isn't a hatchet job, and my excuse for the exercise is my feeling that when you invert some of the clichés mentioned here, you might just arrive at the portals of genuine movie-making energy, says Sreehari Nair.
Mukherjee will travel to Pakistan on January 13 to invite President Pervez Musharraf for the SAARC summit to be held here in early April and hold 'substantive talks' with Kasuri.
Jaahnavi Kandula was killed in January after she was struck by a police vehicle driven by officer Kevin Dave.
The government on Tuesday moved the Company Law Board to remove the current directors of Maytas Infrastructure and Maytas Properties from their respective boards and declare them ineligible for appointment as directors of any other company. The CLB will consider the matter on February 24.
About 30 CPI-M men at Riapara stopped Gouranga Deb Hazra, PTI's East Midnapore district correspondent, who was riding pillion on a motorcycle, on his way to Chandipur from Nandigram around noon.
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Chhattisgarh government on Monday decided to ban Naxalite organisations in the state, 2 days after a landmine blast triggered by them, left 23 security personnel dead.
The offspinner is likely to undergo the operation at the same Baltimore hospital as Sachin Tendulkar.
Indian Hotels, which owns the chain of Taj hotels and East India Hotels, may gain from a tax court ruling that allows hoteliers to claim depreciation and tax benefits on imported cars which are used to ferry tourists.
Skipper Sourav Ganguly revealed that his star opening batsman is suffering from a tennis elbow. He may be replaced by Rohan Gavaskar.
The Bombay high Court on Tuesday said the recently amended Information Technology (IT) Rules against fake news on social media give "unfettered power" to a government authority in the absence of "guidelines and guardrails".
China and India evoked the highest levels of confidence among major economies at 45 per cent and 40 per cent, respectively. The US was at 36 per cent, Canada at 27 per cent, the UK at 26 per cent, Germany at 20 per cent, France 18 per cent, and Japan having the least optimistic CEOs with only 11 per cent very confident of growing revenues in 2020.
'My eyes were too small (to convey) expressions. I was too hairy. I did not have a great physique. (In this profession) you just keep on working on your minus points and try to improve yourself as much as you can.'
Bhandarkar had sought security cover earlier this week.
"Against such background, the words and deeds of relevant important military and government officials and military deployments should be conducive to deescalating and cooling down the situation, and to enhancing mutual trust, rather than the opposite", the spokesman said.
A senior journalist was assaulted and robbed at knife-point near the domestic airport in Mumbai on Sunday night while he was proceeding to the international airport to take a flight to Zimbabwe.
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Selection committee chairman Dilip Vengsarkar says it is physio John Gloster and trainer Gregory King's responsibility to find out the reasons for players breaking down on tour.
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