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The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is an international agreement between governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten the survival of the species. India joined CITES in 1976.Divisional forest officer Ravi K. Singh said, “In all we have rescued 146 exotic animals, including sugar glider, iguana, ball python, budgerigar (birds), love birds. We have completed their registration with CITES, which is mandatory in case of exotic animals and now they will stay at Lucknow Zoo.”In a joint raid by forest and STF officials on Wednesday,…

Bharti, a former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, said she was disappointed at there not being a special quota of 27 per cent reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBC) in the Women’s Reservation Bill, which mandates a 33 per cent reservation for women in both the Lok Sabha (House of the People) and the state assemblies.Bharti has already written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to express her concern and now she has decided to stand against the Bill, claiming she had raised her voice for the OBC quota when the Bill was presented for the first time in 1996.“When…

The fire blazed areas around the Sicilian capital of Palermo, especially the coastal resort town of Cefalu, local media said on Saturday, adding that a woman and an elderly man perished while fleeing the blaze.Around 700 people were evacuated from a hotel near Cefalu on Friday night. They returned to the hotel after the danger perished.Reports said police and firefighters were looking into the cause of the latest fire, though there were no immediate indications of what might have started the fires, Xinhua news agency reported.Wildfires have caused a record-high level of damage to the southern Italian island this year.…

“We condemn the spread of these provocative attacks, which aim to humiliate our religion and its believers, in European countries where they are tolerated, and these acts of hatred are allowed under the guise of freedom of expression,” the Ministry said on Saturday in a statement.Effective measures must now be taken by the countries, where the “attacks” take place, against these provocations, which are recognised by the United Nations as religious hatred and a violation of international law, the statement added.The Ministry called on the Dutch authorities to take necessary action against the perpetrator of the incident and to take…

The Ministers expressed satisfaction with the reopening of embassies in Tehran and Riyadh and the arrival of ambassadors in both countries, said a statement from the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Saturday.They also agreed to speed up the formation of a joint economic cooperation commission and coordination committee, launch air and maritime transportation lines, improve consular services, and promote sports cooperation, it added.Amir-Abdollahian said Iran is ready to draft and sign a document on bilateral comprehensive cooperation based on an idea put forward in his meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud in August. He also stressed the…

The decision was made “in line with the two nations’ interests and aspirations,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday in a statement.The announcement came after a meeting between Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and Maldivian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmed Khaleel on the sidelines of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday.In May 2016, the Maldives, a supporter of Saudi Arabia, ended its diplomatic relations with Iran, following Riyadh’s earlier decision to sever ties with Tehran in January of the same year, Xinhua news agency reported.The resumption of diplomatic relations…

“I started performing and writing songs at the age of eight years — thanks to the fact that my grandfather and parents were deeply into music. They would listen to different genres and it seemed a story inside me was unfolding, waiting to be completed,” she tells IANS.Moving to Switzerland a few years later, it was that songwriting helped her adapt to her new, unfamiliar surroundings where she also co-founded bands, including ‘Black Diamond & Caramel Brown’ (later baptized KAMI AWORI). The latter released 4 EPs and travelled to Bamako, Havana and Johannesburg collaborating with local artists and fusing R&B…

An FIR has been filed over the incident and two men have been arrested in connection with the matter.Basti Superintendent of Police (SP), Gopal Krishana, said that the husband died on Friday night while his wife died at a hospital in Gorakhpur the following day.The couple’s relatives have alleged that the woman was gang raped by the two men in her house in the Rudhauli police station area on the intervening night of September 20 and 21, the SP added.Before allegedly dying by suicide, the couple recorded a video in which they mentioned the names of the accused, the police…

The man jumped in front of Modi’s convoy in Varanasi, asking for a job.The incident took place outside the Rudraksh Centre in Varanasi, when Modi’s convoy was on its way to the Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport on Saturday evening.The man, identified as Krishna Kumar, is a BJP worker. He was held after and is being questioned.A resident of Ghazipur, the man was just 20 metre away from the Prime Minister’s convoy. Police and security officials immediately caught him.The man was seen running towards Modi’s convoy.According to the police, Krishna wanted to meet Prime Minister Modi.”Krishna Kumar, son of Bharat Kumar,…

Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks to reporters on Friday in New York while elaborating on his meetings on the sidelines of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), said the report on Saturday.”We believe that, in view of the prisoner swap conducted between Iran and the US earlier this week, if the American side quits its contradictory behaviors and shows its real intention, achieving an agreement for all parties’ return to the JCPOA and the removal of sanctions on Tehran will not be out of reach,” the report quoted the Minister as saying.Amir-Abdollahian noted that he met with…