New Delhi,Mar 21 2023-Central Bureau of Investigation, CBI has said that its Global Operations Centre continues to closely monitor movements of wanted criminals like Mehul Choksi in close coordination with foreign law enforcement agencies. It said that CBI is not reliant only on INTERPOL channels. The agency said, extradition request …
Read More »Fugitive Amritpal escaped after changing clothes in gurdwara: Police
Chandigarh’Mar 21 2023-Explaining how fugitive and Khalistan ideologue Amritpal Singh is still absconding while over 150 people have been arrested in connection with the March 18 crackdown, Punjab Police Inspector General Sukhchain Singh Gill said here on Tuesday that he escaped by changing clothes in a gurdwara and fled on …
Read More »BJP is world’s most important party: Wall Street Journal
New Delhi’mar’21 2023-The BJP is the world’s most important foreign political party and it may also be the least understood, according to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal authored by Walter Russell Mead. “India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is, from the standpoint of American national interests, the most …
Read More »India steps up search for Sikh separatist preacher
21-03-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Police in India’s Punjab are searching for a Sikh separatist leader who has been on the run since Saturday. Mobile internet is suspended across the state and more than 100 of Amritpal Singh’s supporters have been detained but despite numerous roadblocks and a …
Read More »Fasting hours and iftar times around the world
21-03-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON/ PARIS/ KARACHI: The Muslim holy month of Ramadan will begin later this week. The pre-sunrise to sunset fast lasts anywhere from 12 to 18 hours, depending on where you are in the world. Muslims believe that Ramadan is the month when the first verses …
Read More »Australia begins mass fish death clean-up
21-03-2023 Bureau Report SYDNEY: A major clean-up effort is under way in Australia after millions of fish died in a river in western New South Wales (NSW). Fish will be cleared from “high density areas”, but it will not be possible to remove all the carcasses, police say. Police reassured …
Read More »Iran says President Raisi invited to visit Saudi Arabia
21-03-2023 TEHRAN/ RIYADH: Iran says Saudi Arabia has invited Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi for an official visit just over a week since the countries agreed to restore diplomatic relations. The invitation is said to have come in a letter from King Salman, but has not yet been confirmed by the …
Read More »How 2003’s US/ UK-led invasion turbo-charged Iraq into chaos
21-03-2023 WASHINGTON/ LONDON/ BAGHDAD: The invasion of March 2003 was a catastrophe for Iraq and its people. More proof of that, measured in broken lives, was at a suspected site of a mass grave in the desert outside Sinjar, not far from the border with Syria. Survivors of one of …
Read More »Khalistan activist arrested at IHC in London
21-03-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON/ NEW DELHI/ MELBOURNE: A man has been arrested on suspicion of violent disorder after a crowd incident saw windows smashed at the Indian High Commission in London, media reported on Monday. Metropolitan Police officers were called to the building in Aldwych, Westminster, at around …
Read More »China-Russia ties ahead of Xi’s visit to Moscow
21-03-2023 BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to embark on his first state visit to Russia in four years, spotlighting an alliance that has faced growing scrutiny since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Here are the key aspects of China and Russia’s bilateral relationship: Common international goal In February 2022, …
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