India has proposed to resume tourism and aviation activities with appropriate COVID-19 restrictions through the Travel Bubble Concept with a view to ensuring revitalization of economic activities.
Amid distrust, Afghan peace talks in Doha a road to nowhere: PoK activist ANI | Updated: Jan 08, 2021 09:23 IST
London [UK], January 8 (ANI): Amjad Ayub Mirza, an exiled activist from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir raised doubts over the ongoing peace negotiations held in Doha between the Afghan government and Taliban.
Taliban-Afghan peace talks that resumed on January 5, 2021, in the capital of Qatar, Doha have been marked with distrust. In December, the head of Taliban political wing in Doha, Mullah Baradar was officially visiting Pakistan as head of a three-member delegation. He held meetings with Prime Minister Imran Khan and Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in which a strategy was designed to steer the talks in favour of the Taliban and eventually Pakistan, said Mirza.
India in quandary as British PM declines to be Republic Day chief guest
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January 8, 2021
ISLAMABAD: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has declined to visit India and become the chief guest at its Republic Day celebrations, due in the last week of this month.
He was supposed to be first British premier, who had accepted the invitation in 29 years after John Major. The reason cited for calling off his schedule is spike in mutated coronavirus cases in the United Kingdom and India. However, farmers and Sikh leaders are claiming that their agitation is the actual reason for the British premier changing his mind.
Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit on Thursday said the statement of Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on equality, justice, and peace in Sri Lanka was an important one, “signifying t
What is the 13th Amendment? Why is Sri Lanka dragging its feet on the issue? Updated Jan 07, 2021 | 16:21 IST
“The progress & prosperity of Sri Lanka will surely be advanced as a consequence (of addressing Tamils’ expectations),” EAM S Jaishankar said, referring to Prez Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s vision and policy framework. Sri Lanka
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In a statement, Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said President Rajapaksa had “firmly stated” his commitment to the well-being, progress and opportunities “to all our citizens Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim”. It is learnt that there have been growing calls in Sri Lanka, including from senior Ministers in the ruling Rajapaksa administration and members of the influential Buddhist clergy, for the abolition of the provincial council system and the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.