Indian Sub-continent

Ghaziabad, Apr 2 (PTI) Selling of raw meat will not be allowed in the open during the ongoing Navratra, Ghaziabad Mayor Asha Sharma said on Saturday.

The district magistrate clarified that licensed meat shops can run their business in covered kiosks during the nine-day-long festival.

Kanpur: In a meeting held with Labour Department officials on Friday the KDA vice-chairman Arvind Singh discussed with them its unused land lying in areas like Babu Purwa and Rai Purwa here.

Two closed hospital lands had been lying unused with the labour department. When Cawnpore Improvement Trust existed those lands were given to the labour department for a special purpose, as reported.

The KDA vice-chairman asked the officials to examine the documentation completed in this regard.

Kanpur: Situated on the banks of the holy Ganga river, Jajmau residents feel the prick of hotness owing to the chimneys popping out black soot in the environment. 

In the past days, there were chimneys and greeneries but now the situation is just the reverse. Only the blackish smoke emerges while the foliage and leafage disappeared.

NEW DELHI, April 1 (Reuters) - Russia will increase its use of non-Western currencies for trade with countries such as India, its foreign minister said on Friday, as he hailed New Delhi as a friend that was not taking a "one-sided view" on the Ukraine war.

Sergei Lavrov visited India to shore up support from a country Russia has long regarded as an ally a day after U.S. and British officials pressed India to avoid undermining the dollar-based financial system and sanctions imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24.

Jammu, 1 April 2022: Another Kashmiri was killed on Friday by Indian security forces in Turkwangam area of Shopian district of the Indian Administered Kashmir, Indian officials said.

Islamabad, Apr 1 (PTI) Pakistan summoned a senior US diplomat here and lodged a strong protest over America's alleged "interference" in its internal affairs, according to media reports on Friday.

The US State Department on Thursday firmly rejected embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan's remarks over Washington's role in an alleged foreign conspiracy to oust him from power.

New Delhi, April 1 (PTI) Parents dropping off their children to school buses with mixed emotions, ensuring that they were carrying sanitizer bottles and well-decorated schools -- these were the scenes in Delhi-NCR as institutions resumed offline classes from Friday after a gap of more than two years.

Sudha Acharya, chairperson of the National Progressive Schools' Conference (NPSC), which has over 120 private schools as its members, said that students were eagerly awaiting this day.

New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) The AFSPA, under which a geographical location is declared as disturbed area to facilitate operations of the armed forces, will now be applicable fully only in 31 districts and partially in 12 districts of four states in the Northeast Assam, Nagaland, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh.

These four states together comprise 90 districts.

The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, was completely withdrawn in Meghalaya in 2018, Tripura in 2015 and Mizoram in the 1980s.

New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) India on Thursday defended its decision to look for "good deals" for its energy requirement amid volatility in the market, while pointing out that Europe has been a major buyer of Russian oil and gas even after the crisis in Ukraine unfolded.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar made the remarks in the presence of visiting British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss at the India-UK Strategic Futures Forum, shortly after holding extensive talks with her on a range of issues, including the situation in Ukraine.

Chandigarh, Apr 1 (PTI) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday moved a resolution in the state Assembly seeking immediate transfer of Chandigarh to Punjab.

In the past, the House has passed a number of resolutions urging the Central government to transfer Chandigarh to Punjab, he said.