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NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has claimed that the In a sensational claim made in its remand note against PFI member Shafeeque Payeth, arrested from Kerala Thursday, the ED has said the outfit had organised a training camp to launch an attack during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Patna on July 12 this year. Significantly, PM Modi had a close shave in Patna in October 2013 when jehadi terrorists belonging to Indian Mujahideen, which, just like PFI, has in its ranks members of the outlawed Students' Islamic Movement in India, bombed a rally he addressed immediately afterwards. ED has found details of Rs 120 crore collected by the outfit over the years, mostly in cash and meant to channelise the funds for creating riots and terror activities across the country. Read Also Crack down on PFI protests, court tells govt Kerala police took 551 people into custody after a protest called by PFI against NIA raids and arrest of its functionaries led to widespread … [Read more...] about PFI plotted to attack PM Modi in Bihar on July 12, says ED | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: With India's ties with Canada in a tailspin because of the latter's reluctance to check hate crimes, and also the so-called "The ministry of external affairs and our high commission/consulates general in Canada have taken up these incidents with the Canadian authorities and requested them to investigate the said crimes and take appropriate action. The perpetrators of these crimes have not been brought to justice so far in Canada," said MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi. In view of the increasing incidences of hate crimes as described above, said the official, Indian nationals and students from India in Canada and those proceeding to Canada for travel/education are advised to exercise due caution and remain vigilant. The government also asked Indian nationals and students from India in Canada to register with the high commission of India in Ottawa or Consulates General of India in Toronto and Vancouver through their respective websites, or the MADAD portal madad.gov.in. … [Read more...] about ‘Khalistan referendum’: Canada ties in tailspin, govt issues hate crime advisory | India News – Times of India

Police personnel take stock of the damages done to a Kerala State Road Transport Corporation bus after some miscreants threw stones on it, during the 'hartal' called by Popular Front of India, in Thiruvananthapuram (PTI) Kerala police took 551 people into custody after a protest called by It called the “flash hartal” illegal and asked the government to confront the lawbreakers with an iron fist. As many as 13 shops, 70 state-run buses and two Tamil Nadu government buses were damaged by mobs in 217 reported attacks on properties, vehicles and citizens during the dawn-to-dusk statewide protest, police said. They said 10 KSRTC staff, including eight drivers, and six cops were wounded. The protest was comparatively peaceful in the south. Of those arrested in 311 cases registered so far, most were in Kollam city (164), where cops reported protesters ramming two policemen on duty with a bike, besides other crimes. Also, some 400 people were taken into preventive detention, with … [Read more...] about PFI Protests: Crack down on PFI protests, court tells govt | India News – Times of India

With the months-long Ukraine conflict raging on, India on Saturday told the United Nations General Assembly that it is on the side of peace and on the side that calls for dialogue and diplomacy as the only way out. IMAGE: A man walks through the ruins of a building destroyed by recent shelling during Russia-Ukraine conflict in the city of Kadiivka (Stakhanov) in the Luhansk region, Ukraine. "As the Ukraine conflict continues to rage, we are often asked whose side we are on. And our answer, each time, is straight and honest,” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said in his address to the high-level UN General Assembly session in New York. He underlined that it is in the collective interest of the international community to work constructively, both within the United Nations and outside, in finding an early resolution to this conflict. Delivering the national statement, he said in this conflict India is on the side of peace and will remain firmly there. "We are … [Read more...] about India is on side of peace: Jaishankar on Ukraine at UN

1 2 3 4 5 NEW DELHI: Social media has been abuzz with rumours since Saturday that Chinese president Xi Jinping has been deposed in a coup that began unfolding while he was away in Uzbekistan attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit. Some Twitter posts claimed that Xi was placed under house arrest as soon as he landed in Beijing on September 16. Several Chinese nationals on Twitter claimed that the People's Liberation Army had taken control and others speculated that General Read Also Internet rumours of Xi Jinping removed in coup, no official word from Beijing There was no corroborative reporting from any reputed international news outlet, however, and the Chinese foreign ministry was silent. There were no reports on the subject from Chinese media either. Some websites said the rumours were unfounded and they were part of an anti-Xi conspiracy. Other tweets claimed that Beijing airport had cancelled 6,000 international and … [Read more...] about Explained: President Xi missing? What has stoked rumours of military coup in China – Times of India

Synopsis Ahead of the implementation of the India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA), a 106-member business delegation from Canberra is visiting this week to forge ties across agriculture, critical minerals, infrastructure, digital health and education. Ahead of the implementation of the India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA), a 106-member business delegation from Canberra is visiting this week to forge ties across agriculture, critical minerals, infrastructure, digital health and education. “This visit is all about those commercial partnerships…to get business here to start talking. We have primarily focused on eight critical minerals including lithium, graphite, and titanium that are of equal value to both India and Australia ,” said Denise Eaton , Trade and Investment Commissioner, Australian Trade and Investment Commission . The minerals, used in electric vehicles and the medical devices, are an area of key … [Read more...] about Minerals in PLI products on Oz business delegation’s India visit agenda