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Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang will visit India to attend G20 meet
China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang is expected to meet his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar on the sidelines of the G20 meeting, where according to reports, they are likely to discuss the border issues and review the outcome of talks at diplomatic and military levels, to resolve the matter.
'Go to HC': SC declines Manish Sisodia's plea against arrest in liquor policy case
A bench of Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud and comprising Justice P.S. Narasimha told senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, representing Sisodia, that his client has alternative remedies available before the Delhi High Court and stressed that he must move either the trial court or the high court for the relief he is seeking from the apex court.
Jailed AAP Ministers Sisodia, Jain resign from Delhi Cabinet
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has accepted their resignations. According to a AAP source, the CM may reshuffle the cabinet after the resignation of two ministers who were holding important portfolios. Sisodia, who was arrested on Sunday and sent to CBI custody till March 5 on Monday, held 18 portfolios including Finance and Education.
ISRO test fires cryogenic engine of its moon mission rocket
The 25 seconds hot test was conducted on February 24 at the ISRO Propulsion Complex, Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu. "All the propulsion parameters during the test were found satisfactory and closely matched with predictions. The cryogenic engine will be further integrated with the propellant tanks, stage structures and associated fluid lines to realise the fully integrated flight cryogenic stage," ISRO said.
Terrorist who killed Sanjay Sharma neutralised in Kashmir encounter
One army soldier has also been killed in action in the gunfight. The killed terrorist has been identified as Aqib Mustaq Bhat of Pulwama (A category). He initially worked for HM terror outfit, nowadays he had been working with TRF. Killer of late Sanjay Sharma neutralised," Jammu and Kashmir Police quoting Additional Director General Police (ADGP) Kashmir zone Vijay Kumar tweeted.
Terrorist killed in Pulwama encounter
"One terrorist killed. Body of the killed terrorist yet to be retrieved. Encounter in progress," the police said. The firefight started after a joint team of police and security forces got an input about the presence of terrorists in that area. After security forces cordoned off the area, terrorists hiding there started firing drawing retaliation by the security forces.
'No business to take law in your hands': SC tells Defence Ministry on payment of OROP arrears
A bench headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and comprising justices P.S. Narasimha and J.B. Pardiwala told Additional Solicitor General N. Venkataraman: "Here, you are not fighting a war. Here, you are fighting a battle under the rule of law, you better set your house in order. This is not the way for the Ministry of Defence to go about it."
Excise policy case: Delhi court reserves its order on CBI plea for Manish Sisodia's remand
Special judge M.K. Nagpal of the Rouse Avenue Courts will pronounce his order later on Monday. The agency arrested Sisodia on Sunday after eight hours of questioning. During the hearing, the CBI said: "Conspiracy was hatched in a very planned and secret manner."
Relations with China will not be normal until LAC faceoff issue resolved Foreign Minister Jaishankar
We were completely preoccupied with the COVID challenge. Please appreciate the anonymity of what Prime Minister Modi did. He deployed forces at this great height in very difficult conditions in the middle of COVID. And then took this challenge head-on," he said while addressing the Forum For Nationalist Thinkers, Hyderabad Chapter Talk on 'India's G20 Presidency.
India's ancient maritime journey to be recreated by 2025: Sanjeev Sanyal
"The Indian Navy is going to help me on building the ship with ancient stitching technology. And we will probably be able to sail to Bali from Odisha by Kartika Purnima in 2025," the economist and historian said during a session on the concluding day of the three-day-long Kalinga Literary Festival here on Sunday.
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