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The PML-N leader said, “China – in a diplomatic manner – had tried to convey (a message) to the then establishment to avoid any new experiment as it would derail CPEC,” Geo News reported.The then establishment, however, assured Beijing that whoever would come into power will not create obstacles in the path of the mega infrastructure and connectivity project.Beijing had asked the establishment not to interfere in elections as “any experiment of change will not be beneficial for Pakistan and will destroy the CPEC”, the planning minister added, Geo News reported.Responding to a question, the minister stressed the need for…

On Centre Court, the Spaniard battled back from a break down in the fourth set to notch a 6-3, 6-7(6), 6-3, 7-5 victory and return to the fourth round for the second straight year on the London lawns.”This match gave me a lot of confidence today.I feel really comfortable on that court. I feel [I have] a lot of confidence right now,” said Alcaraz in his post-match press conference.Alcaraz assessed the level of his opponent as worthy of a place in the Top 10 of the ATP Rankings. The Spaniard himself entered Wimbledon as World No. 1. Should he go…

A 1960-batch IAS officer, Buch was also the first woman Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh.She was suffering due to old-age related problems and died of multiple organ failure. She served as the Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh government from September 1991 to 1993. She had also served as financial and education secretary from 1975-1977.Before it, Buch had also served the Yojana Aayog (now NITI Ayog) and she has also pioneering role in framing of ‘gramin vikas’ and ‘panchayati raj’ system in Madhya Pradesh.Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan expressed his condolences on the demise of MP’s first woman chief secretary and…

Presided over by BJP’s national president J. P. Nadda, the meeting was attended by state presidents from 11 states.Party’s organisational secretaries and in-charges from 11 states were also attending the meeting.BJP;s newly appointed state presidents in Telugu states were among those participating in the meeting.Paryty general secretary B. L. Santhosh, national vice president D. K. Aruna and other senior leaders were also attending the key meeting.Earlier, Union minister for tourism and culture G. Kishan Reddy, who was last week named as the BJP president for Telangana, received J. P. Nadda at Begumpet Airport. Former state BJP president Bandi Sanjay, MP…

The main opposition party, Congress, is also planning to field a candidate. But the result of the election is a foregone conclusion.Election to the lone Rajya Sabha seat from Goa will be held on July 24, as the term of the current member, BJP leader, Vinay Tendulkar will expire on July 28.A notification regarding the election date was issued by Namrata Ulman, the Returning Officer and Secretary of Goa Legislative Assembly.In the 40-member Goa Legislative Assembly, the BJP has 33 seats (including support of five MLAs), while seven are from the opposition.The BJP has 28 MLAs and support of two…

India have handed debuts to all-rounder Minnu Mani and left-arm spinner Anusha Bareddy in a playing eleven where the batting depth is till number 10 and seven bowling options are present, with Yastika Bhatia as wicketkeeper-batter.”There has been rain over the last couple of days, and we don’t know how the pitch will play. Wicket looks good, but I don’t have a fair idea of how it will play. So, we had in mind that if we win the toss, we will bowl first and have a fair idea about the pitch.We just want to bowl wicket-to-wicket and looking for…

Kumuthini Kannan, 55, and her husband Kandasamy Kannan from Mount Waverley were convicted and jailed in 2021 after an Australian Federal Police (AFP) investigation established the couple had kept a victim as a slave for eight years.The couple had forced the victim from Tamil Nadu to live in squalid conditions, while cooking, cleaning and caring for their children before she collapsed.Believed to be in her sixties now, the victim was admitted to hospital with severe malnourishment, diabetes and gangrene of the feet and hands, police said.Kumuthini was sentenced on Friday in the County Court of Victoria to a further two…

OTT content cannot cater to all tastes and, especially, the generations of Indians brought up on films. It will be a long time before OTT content is accepted as a replacement for cinema, if at all.When Hindi filmmakers stray, as in, take their audience for granted, regional film industries come alive. Besides South, the only regional industry that has maintained continuity is Bengali cinema. Marathi, Gujarati, Bhojpuri and Punjabi are regular film industries, but they go dormant at times. The usual culprit is oversupply.If one Punjabi film is a success, the market is flooded with more films. Most prefer to…

San Francisco, July 9 (IANS) Jack Sweeney, who created a Twitter bot that tracks Elon Musk’s Gulfstream private jet and posts real-time updates of its location from publicly available data, has moved to Meta’s Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from the microblogging platform last year.Sweeney created “ElonMusksJet” on Threads to continue his project of tracking the movements of Musk’s private jet.”Tracking Elon Musk’s Private Jet (N628TS) with a bot using public ADS-B data grndcntrlnet,” reads his bio on Threads.As of now, the account has garnered 50,000 followers.”ElonJet has arrived to Threads!” Sweeney wrote in his first post, later asking Meta…

It made sense since the area is remote and not particularly well-connected, despite being close to the New Town of state capital Kolkata. Also, the place happens to be most affected by violence in the run-up to the polls, recording at least three deaths.There have been reports of violence in Bhangar ever since the poll process began. However, the most widespread violence took place on June 15, the last day of filing nomination papers. Explosives were hurled, vehicles set afire in Vijayganj market and people were shot at in the incident. According to media reports, a supporter each of the…