India expects Saudi Arabia to keep in mind mutual interests, sensitivities: MEA on Saudi-Pak pact

New Delhi:  India on Friday said it expects Saudi Arabia to keep in mind “mutual interests and sensitivities” in the wake of Riyadh sealing a strategic defence pact with Pakistan. The agreement states that “any aggression against either of the two countries shall be considered as an aggression against both”. “India and Saudi Arabia have…

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UP CM Adityanath blames previous ‘secular’ govts for ‘failing’ to make India global power

Mathura (UP): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday blamed the previous “secular” governments at the Centre for failing to make India a global power. “In the last 11 years, we have seen India transforming. The people in the previous governments used to call themselves as secular… The word impossible was attached with such…

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NCP still in Mahayuti due to mutual respect, commitment to Maharashtra’s progress: Ajit Pawar

Nagpur: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP chief Ajit Pawar on Friday said the party was still part of the Mahayuti alliance because of mutual respect among allies and its commitment to the state’s progress. Addressing office-bearers and party leaders at the inaugural session of the NCP’s ‘Chintan Shibir’ here, Pawar said he had decided…

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SC rejects plea against K’taka invitation to Booker winner Mushtaq to inaugurate Mysuru Dasara

New Delhi:  The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea challenging the Karnataka government’s decision to invite International Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq to inaugurate Mysuru Dasara this year. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta rejected the petition challenging the September 15 order of the Karnataka High Court, which dismissed the pleas…

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Congress must be realistic, RJD accommodative in seat-sharing talks for Bihar polls: Dipankar

Kolkata:  CPI(ML) Liberation, a constituent of the Grand Alliance in Bihar, hoped that the Congress would adopt a “more realistic” approach in the ongoing seat-sharing talks for the upcoming assembly elections, drawing lessons from its performance in the 2020 polls when it had “bitten off more than it could chew”. The Left party’s general secretary,…

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