EAM Jaishankar discusses Indo-Pacific, West Asia situation with Australian counterpart Wong

EAM Jaishankar discusses Indo-Pacific, West Asia situation with Australian counterpart Wong

External Affairs Minister Dr Jaishankar, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, and Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan at at the opening of the 7th Indian Ocean Conference in Perth. | Photo Credit: X@DrSJaishankar External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on February 9 met his Australian counterpart Penny Wong and discussed the bilateral … Read more

Morning Digest | Star India boxer Mary Kom announces retirement; keeping a close watch on Red Sea situation, says India, and more

Morning Digest | Star India boxer Mary Kom announces retirement; keeping a close watch on Red Sea situation, says India, and more

Indian boxer Mary Kom. | Photo Credit: PTI Star India boxer Mary Kom draws curtain on remarkable career Six-time World Champion and 2012 Olympic medallist Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom on January 24 announced her retirement from boxing. Mary Kom hung her boxing gloves as the International Boxing Association’s (IBA) rules allow male and female boxers … Read more

Cyclone Michaung: Collectors review situation, direct officers to evacuate people to safety

Cyclone Michaung: Collectors review situation, direct officers to evacuate people to safety

West Godavari Collector P. Prasanthi interacting with farmers who were drying the harvested paddy on the roadside in a village near Palakol on Sunday. Collectors of coastal districts reviewed the situation ahead of Cyclone Michaung making landfall along the Andhra Pradesh coastline, and asked officials to take measures to prevent loss of life and property … Read more

CRPF discusses evolving law and order situation in wake of Manipur crisis 

CRPF discusses evolving law and order situation in wake of Manipur crisis 

Security personnel stand guard as students protest against the “killing” of two missing students by unknown miscreants and demand peace in Manipur, Imphal, on September 27, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Top officials of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on October 18 discussed the evolving law and order situation in the country in the light … Read more

Shashi Tharoor slams BJP over Manipur situation, calls for imposition of President’s rule

Shashi Tharoor slams BJP over Manipur situation, calls for imposition of President’s rule

In a tweet, Shashi Tharoor said, “As the Manipur violence persists, all right-thinking Indians must ask themselves what happened to the much-vaunted good governance we had been promised.” | Photo Credit: PTI Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on May 7 said the voters of Manipur are feeling “grossly betrayed” just a year after putting the … Read more

Situation along Northern border stable but unpredictable: Army chief Manoj Pande

Situation along Northern border stable but unpredictable: Army chief Manoj Pande

Army chief Manoj Pande addressing the annual press conference ahead of the Indian Army Day in New Delhi on January 12, 2023. Photo: R.V. Moorthy The situation along the frontier with China is “stable” but “unpredictable” and Indian troops are adequately deployed to deal with any contingency, Army Chief Gen. Manoj Pande said on January … Read more

India tried to defuse Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant situation: EAM Jaishankar 

India tried to defuse Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant situation: EAM Jaishankar 

India tried to defuse the situation around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and quietly helped in the grain deal between Moscow and Kyiv, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has said even as he vehemently rejected charges of New Delhi being a war profiteer over its procurement of discounted Russian oil. The External Affairs Minister also … Read more

Himachal CM not in control of situation, says Jairam Thakur

Himachal CM not in control of situation, says Jairam Thakur

With the Cabinet formation in Himachal Pradesh, where the Congress party came to power in December 2022, still not settled, the principal Opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has started to push the government led by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, to the wall. The three-day Winter Session of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly will begin … Read more

Mental Health on Campus: Situation Grim, but Not Hopeless

Mental Health on Campus: Situation Grim, but Not Hopeless

Mental health issues among college students have increased by nearly 50% since 2013, one large study shows, now affecting 3 of every 5 students. Other researchers have found that the pandemic definitely contributed to a heavier toll on college students’ mental health. Source link