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Plan prepared to vaccinate all adults in 3 months: CM Kejriwal

Kejriwal to address C-40 climate change summit via video conference

8:45 pm October 10, 2019

New Delhi: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal will address the C-40 Climate Change Summit through a video conference on Friday, October 11, 2019, after the Ministry of External Affairs denied him permission to visit Denmark, a statement said on Thursday. According to the government, the chief minster has accepted the request of the summit organisers […]

Merkel vows to fight hate after deadly anti-Semitic attack

8:27 pm October 10, 2019

Halle: Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed there would be “zero tolerance” for hate in Germany after a deadly anti-Semitic gun attack carried out on the holy day of Yom Kippur, as Jews demanded action to protect the community from the rising threat of neo-Nazi violence. Two people were shot dead in the eastern German city of […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Kazakhstan jails China expert for 10 years for treason

8:05 pm October 10, 2019

Nur-Sultan: A court in Kazakhstan has sentenced a China expert to 10 years in prison for treason, the national security committee said on Thursday. Konstantin Syroezhkin, 63, was an employee of the state-run Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies when his detention was reported earlier this year. Although the national security committee, the KNB, did not […]

Paris, Rome, Berlin preparing to block Facebook's Libra in Europe: French minister

French finance minister: Libra should not be developed in EU

8:33 pm October 9, 2019

Brussels: The European Union should not allow Facebook to develop its digital currency project, known as Libra, on “European territory” because it threatens the monetary sovereignty of member states, France’s finance minister Bruno Le Maire said Wednesday. Speaking ahead of a meeting of the 19 eurozone finance ministers, Bruno Le Maire said alternative payment systems […]

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh receives IAF’s first Rafale fighter jet from France

9:07 pm October 8, 2019

Merignac (France) : Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday formally received the Indian Air Force’s first Rafale fighter jet from a series of 36 such aircraft purchased from France. Singh attended the handover ceremony along with his French counterpart Florence Parly at aircraft maker Dassault Aviation facility in Merignac, southwestern France. The minister performed a […]