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India and Pakistan are slated to make statements on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir during the ongoing 42nd UN Human Rights Session on September 10. A high-level delegation is already in Geneva to hold meetings with groups and representatives of various countries to counter Pakistan’s allegations of human rights violations in Kashmir. The delegation is led by Ajay Bisaria, the India High Commissioner to Pakistan who was sent back after Pakistan unilaterally downgraded ties, and Vijay Thakur Singh, Secretary East. The representatives had recently met the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet and briefed her about the…

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Monday his new government would play a key role in reforming the European Union, including supporting the completion of a banking union and revising budget rules. In a speech to the lower house of parliament ahead of a confidence vote, Conte promised improved ties with Europe following months of conflict under his previous government. Once fierce foes, the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and center-left Democratic Party (PD) have agreed to join forces under the leadership of Conte and after the far-right League, last month walked out of its coalition with 5-Star in a failed…

Congress on Monday appointed Anshul Meira Kumar and Sharmistha Mukherjee the party’s national spokespersons. The appointments were approved by Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Sharmistha Mukherjee has been a spokesperson of Delhi Congress and was later appointed the chief of Delhi Mahila Congress. She is the daughter of former President Pranab Mukherjee. Anshul Meira Kumar is the son of former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar. Mukherjee expressed her gratitude to the Congress president for the appointment. “Thanks and gratitude to INC India president Sonia Gandhi Ji for appointing me a national spokesperson of AICC. I would like to thank RS Surjewalaji…

Heavy downpour in the capital of Madhya Pradesh caused water-logging on the multiple stretches on Monday. Commuters were seen stuck due to vehicular traffic and pedestrian movement was also disrupted as the roads and pavements were flooded. According to IMD, skies will generally remain cloudy and the city may receive moderate to light rainfall during the next 24 hours. The weather forecasting agency has predicted that maximum and minimum temperature is most likely to remain around 24 degrees Celcius and 27 degrees Celcius respectively. Meanwhile, some barracks of the Harda jail were also flooded due to incessant rains. Follow us…

Hundreds of uniformed school students, many wearing masks, formed human chains in districts across Hong Kong on Monday in support of anti-government protesters after another weekend of clashes in the Chinese-ruled city. Metro stations reopened after some were closed on Sunday amid sometimes violent confrontations, although the mood in the Asian financial hub remained tense. Early on Monday, before school started, rows of students and alumni joined hands chanting “Hong Kong people, add oil”, a phrase that has become a rallying cry for the protest movement. “The school-based human chain is the strongest showcase of how this protest is deep-rooted…

Iran has begun installing more advanced centrifuges and is moving toward enriching uranium with them even though that is forbidden under its nuclear deal with major powers, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday. The 2015 deal only lets Iran produce enriched uranium with just over 5,000 of its first-generation IR-1 centrifuge machines. It can use far fewer advanced centrifuges for research but without accumulating enriched uranium. But in response to U.S. sanctions imposed since Washington withdrew from the deal in May last year, Iran has been breaching the limits it imposed on its atomic activities step by step.…

Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan met his Saudi counterpart Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman here on Sunday and the latter reiterated the kingdom’s commitment to remain a reliable and sustainable partner in hydrocarbon supplies for India. “Met the newly appointed Saudi Minister of Energy HRH Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman in Jeddah and renewed my earlier acquaintance with him during his previous assignments with Saudi Ministry of Energy,” Pradhan tweeted. “Saudi Minister reiterated Saudi Arabia’s commitment to remain a reliable and sustainable partner in hydrocarbon supplies and also on Saudi investments in India: he said in another tweet. Pradhan…

British Airways on Monday said it was forced to cancel all flights operations for today and tomorrow (Tuesday) after it’s pilot union went on strike over a heated pay dispute with the airline. “We put forward a proposal to BA management last Wednesday that would have enabled us to call off the strikes for Monday and Tuesday,” the British Airline Pilots Association wrote on Twitter. But the “BA didn’t reply,” the post added. Responding to the tweet, the British Airways said in a statement today that it was “ready and willing to return to talks with BALPA.” “We understand the…

China on Monday opposed any unilateral actions that complicate the situation’ in Jammu and Kashmir as it maintained that the issue should be “peacefully resolved based on the UN Charter, relevant UN Security Council resolutions and bilateral agreements.” China also said that it was paying close attention to the “current situation in Jammu and Kashmir.’ The remarks were made in a joint statement after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s two-day visit to Pakistan. The two sides exchanged views on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. The Pakistani side briefed the Chinese side “on the situation, including its concerns, position, and…

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath along with his ministers took lessons on leadership, governance, and management at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) here on Sunday. Yogi and his entire ministerial team took several lessons from senior faculty at the business school as a part of a three-days long leadership development program, Manthan. The session ran from 8 am to 6 pm with the ministers holding group discussions on management and execution of government schemes. The major aim is to develop leadership capacity and achieve goals of good governance. This program ran through 10 hours but there was no sign of…