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Historic Milestone: India and Iran Seal Definitive Deal for ...

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New Delhi | WTNS | Jan 18: In Tehran, India and Iran have finalized an agreement on the Chahbahar Port, marking India’s inaugural foreign port venture. Talks on this Iranian project date back several years, notably during Prime Minister Modi’s 2017 visit to Tehran and External Affairs Minister Jaishankar’s emphasis on Chahbahar’s role as a regional transit hub at the 2021 Connectivity Conference in Tashkent. On November 23, 2023, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra co-chaired discussions...

Disqualifying 146 MPs an assault on parliamentary democracy:...

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New Delhi | WTNS | Dec 23: Senior Congress leader and MP Shashi Tharoor Saturday termed the disqualification of 146 MPs an “assault on parliamentary democracy”. Speaking to reporters during a rally, the Congress leader said we are stuck in an extremely grave situation and disqualification of 146 MPs was an assault on our parliamentary democracy. “We are seeing an assault on our parliamentary democracy which is extremely grave. We are holding rallies whose aim is to draw the attention of the...

Supreme Court upholds abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu �...

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New Delhi | WTNS | Dec 12: The Supreme Court has upheld the abrogation of Article 370 that conferred a special status to Jammu and Kashmir. The apex court was hearing a batch of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370. The apex court ruled that the President’s order to scrap Article 370, revoking Jammu and Kashmir’s special status was not malafide, and was valid. The five-judge Constitution Bench, headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud gave a unanimous verdict on the batch of pleas...

India Sends Humanitarian Aid to Palestine...

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Srinagar | WTNS | Oct 24: India sent medical and disaster relief aid for Palestinians on Sunday (October 22). External affairs ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi announced on X (formerly Twitter) that an Indian Air Force C-17 flight carrying nearly 6.5 tonnes of medical aid and 32 tonnes of disaster relief material departed for the El-Arish airport in Egypt. “The material includes essential life-saving medicines, surgical items, tents, sleeping bags, tarpaulins, sanitary utilities, [and] water...

G20 Summit: World Leaders Agree on Aid Agenda, but Soften St...

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New Delhi | WTNS | Sep 10:G20 leaders reached consensus earlier than expected at their summit in India, issuing a broad economic plan for poorer nations. But divisions over Russia’s invasion over Ukraine remained. A painstakingly negotiated declaration Saturday evening at the Group of 20 summit in New Delhi omitted any condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or its brutal conduct of the war, instead lamenting the “suffering” of the Ukrainian people. It was an eye opening departure from...

How India Became the First Country to Reach the Moon’s Sou...

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New Delhi | WTNS | Aug 23: Since earlier this month, there had been something of a footrace in space, with India and Russia vying to be the first country to land a spacecraft in the moon’s south polar region. On July 14, the Indian spacecraft, Chandrayaan-3, blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in southeastern India, carrying a 1,726 kg (3,805 lb) lander, which itself contains a little 26 kg (57 lb) rover. Then on Aug. 9, Russia followed in hot pursuit, launching its 1,750 kg (3,858...

India launches historic Chandrayaan-3 mission to land spacec...

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New Delhi | WTNS | July 15: An Indian spacecraft has blazed its way towards the far side of the moon in a follow-up mission to its failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover softly on the lunar surface, India’s space agency said. Chandrayaan-3, the word for “moon craft” in Sanskrit, took off from a launch pad in Sriharikota, an island in southern India, with an orbiter, a lander and a rover, in a demonstration of India’s emerging space technology. The spacecraft will embark on a...

‘She Leads’ seeks Electoral Reforms in India; Ce...

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New Delhi | WTNS | March 20: She Leads, a joint initiative of Stree Shakti – The Parallel Force (founded by Rekha Mody), Indian School of Democracy (founded by Hemakshi Meghnani) and Political Shakti (founded by Tara Krishnaswamy) held Certificate Distribution Ceremony on Friday, March 17th, 2023 in New Delhi on completion of training of their third cohort. “In Indian Democracy women have a definite role to play. As vital voters, women’s demands are being met by political parties like free...

Former RAW chief AS Dulat during the Bharat Jodo Yatra...

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New Delhi | WTNS | Jan 03:Former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) chief AS Dulat on Tuesday joined Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra as the nationwide foot march resumed after a nine-day winter break and entered Uttar Pradesh. Dulat, who also served as an advisor on Jammu and Kashmir in the Vajpayee government after his retirement, joined the yatra in Delhi. Earlier in the Day, Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament (MP) Priyanka Chaturvedi also joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra. Bharat...

Monumental International conference on Allama Tabatabai̵...

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New Delhi | WTNS | Dec 9:An International Conference on the personality and scholarly works of Syed Muhammad Hussain Tabatabai, a well-known commentator, theologian, philosopher, and jurist of the Islamic world was organised at Jamia Millia Islamia’s Center for Information Technology Auditorium (CIT) on December,5 by the Department of Islamic studies Jamia Mili Islamia and Humanities Advanced Studies Institute (HASI) in which intellectual and literary personalities of India and Iran along with...