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2021-06-24 12:57:10 At least 30 Myanmar troops were reportedly killed during two fierce encounters with civilian resistance fighters in Kani and Yinmabin townships in the Sagaing region bordering northeast India Open / Comment

2021-06-24 11:31:24 A US federal court will on Thursday conduct an in-person hearing on the extradition of Pakistani-born Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana, who is sought over his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack, according to court papers.

The extradition hearing, conducted at the request of the Indian government, will be held at the US District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles. It is set to start at 01:30 p.m. local time (20:30 GMT).

A team of officials from India has already arrived in the US for the court proceedings.

Rana was rearrested in Los Angeles in response to an extradition request filed by India, where he is declared a fugitive, last June. Apart from involvement in the terrorist attack, he is being prosecuted for the conspiracy to commit murder and forgery for the purpose of cheating, among other offences Open / Comment

2021-06-24 09:49:18 Two Dalit boys, aged 10 and 11, were allegedly tied to a tree and mercilessly thrashed for hours by the owner of an orchard in Uttar Pradesh for having plucked 'jamun' from his plantation.

The incident took place in Gehua village. When their mothers went looking for them, they found them still tied to the tree and unconscious.

They informed the Mohammadi police station personnel, but a First Information Report was registered only after photographs of the children were shared on social media on Wednesday Open / Comment

2021-06-24 04:43:14 Check out the highlights of the night in our latest updates:

A former Coca-Cola bottling factory in Kerala will now be a 600-bed COVID hospital.

India and the US started a two-day multi-domain wargame in the Indian Ocean involving an array of air defense platforms.

Banks in India received 967 million dollars by selling defaulter and former billionaire Vijay Mallya's stake in United Breweries Ltd.

Meghalaya chief minister Conrad Sangma launched three emergency Oxygen plants at three civil hospitals in the state to provide intensive-care treatment to COVID-19 patients. Open / Comment

2021-06-23 17:04:41 India and the US have begun a two-day naval exercise in the Indian Ocean region Open / Comment

2021-06-23 13:59:07 Indian social media users are posting the #BanGrahanWebSeries hashtag and calling for a ban on the release of the upcoming web series "Grahan," which is based on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in the country.

The makers of the series have been accused of portraying a Sikh character in an "objectionable manner" Open / Comment

2021-06-23 13:55:47 Senior Congress Party lawmaker and former Indian state chief Digvijaya Singh has sought an explanation from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government over reports that India is “secretly” holding talks with the Taliban.

“This is a very serious matter. The Indian government must come clean on it by issuing a statement,” stated Singh, referring to a news report that Indian officials flew to Qatar to hold talks with the insurgent group Open / Comment

2021-06-23 11:56:22 China’s military deployment along the Line of Actual Control and uncertainty over whether Beijing will live up to its promise to reduce troops remain among major issues in relations between the two countries, India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar stated at the Qatar Economic Forum.

The minister said that the “close up deployments still continue, especially in Ladakh”.

“The issue there is whether China will live up to the written commitments which are made about both countries not deploying a large armed force at the border. And the larger issue really, whether we can build this relationship on the basis of mutual sensitivity, mutual respect and mutual interest,” Jaishankar said Open / Comment

2021-06-23 10:54:07 At least 10 people were injured on Wednesday in an explosion in Lahore's Johar town area.

The explosion damaged vehicles parked near the spot and windowpanes of nearby buildings were shattered. The blast was heard over a large area.

"We are investigating the cause of the explosion," said DIG Investigation Lahore Shariq Jamal Khan, who added that evidence is being collected from the site to determine the cause of the explosion.

Four of the injured were shifted to nearby medical facilities and six people were given first aid at the site of the incident. A large contingent of law enforcement officers is now present at the site of the explosion Open / Comment

2021-06-23 09:53:35 India recorded 50,848 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours taking the country's total caseload to over 30 million, according to data released by the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Wednesday.

As it continued with a declining trend of coronavirus infection, the country reported 1,358 deaths.

This is the sixth consecutive day in the last two months when the toll has been below the 2,000 mark Open / Comment