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| The Border Security Force (BSF) yesterday thwarted Pakistan’s infiltration designs and unearthed a 14-foot-long tunnel in J&K. The tunnel was being dug from the Pakistani side along the international border and “war-like” store was recovered in Arnia sector, indicating the presence of armed infiltrators who managed to flee back, officials said, adding that a special drive for the detection of tunnels was launched all along the international border in the wake of recent cross-border shelling by Pakistan. Read |
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| After Doklam stand-off, Chinese ambassador to India has said it is time for India and China to start a new chapter. Chinese ambassador to India Luo Zhaohui said Xi and Modi, who met at the BRICS Summit this month, sent a clear message of “reconciliation” and “cooperation”. “We should dance together. We should make one plus one eleven. China is the largest trading partner of India. We have made a lot of progress at the bilateral level, as well as in international and regional affairs,” Luo said. |
| India received below-normal monsoon this year, with the season ending on a 5.2% deficit yesterday. While 50% of the country’s districts have had normal rains, more than a third – 215 districts – are left with deficient rainfall, which could impact the kharif crop to an extent. The majority of the districts in rain distress this year are in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Vidarbha and surrounding areas, which were the hardest hit by an unexpected dip in rainfall in the second half of the season. |
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| Rajnath Singh said people living at India-China border are ‘strategic assets’ and urged them not to migrate from their villages. The Home Minister, who is on a four-day visit to forward outposts along the India-China border, said that “it won’t be good from security point of view if our brothers and sisters living on the border migrate from there”. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi thinks about you (border population). He keeps on telling me that we have to take care of you,” Singh said. |
| Hafiz Saeed has slapped a Rs 100 million defamation notice on Pakistan foreign minister for calling him the ‘darling of the US’. Saeed’s counsel AK Dogar sent the notice to the foreign minister Khawaja Asif on behalf of his client who heads the Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), a front for the LeT militant group that carried out the deadly 2008 Mumbai attack. “Saeed is respected as a deeply religious and devout Muslim. Saeed has never been near the White House, not to speak of wined and dined,” Dogar said in the notice. |
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