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Scotland Yard said one man was arrested in London for "breach of peace" during a face-off between UK-based Kashmiri and pro-Khalistan outfits chanting anti-India slogans and counter-protesters chanting pro-Modi slogans. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2HolnII Press Trust of India

The Election Commission of India is likely to announce the schedule for the Lok Sabha election at 5 pm on Sunday. The polls are expected to be spread over seven to eight phases during the months of April and May. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2TyiUms FP Staff

Bleeding support in the countryside because of falling farm incomes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi could still persuade just enough rural voters to give him a second term after ordering an air strike inside Pakistan last month. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Cc4Rs2 Reuters

With the increase in quota, Madhya Pradesh is possibly the only state in the country to have 27 percent quota for OBCs, officials said. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2UvadFB Press Trust of India

Bleeding support in the countryside because of falling farm incomes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi could still persuade just enough rural voters to give him a second term after ordering an air strike inside Pakistan last month. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2J4Arh3 Reuters

Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani's son Akash Ambani marriedShloka Mehta, daughter of diamond merchant Russell and Mona Mehta on Saturday,9 March. It was attended by Sundar Pichai, Ratan Tata and Shah Rukh Khan, among others from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2HmTRLD FP Staff

India said on Saturday that Pakistan had "plenty to hide" by preventing journalists from accessing the site of an air strike by Indian fighter jets inside Pakistan. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2TEIViR Reuters

Businessman Robert Vadra, who is believed to have been indicating an intention to join politics for a few weeks, on Sunday wrote another post on Facebook, saying he was "overwhelmed" by the people who want him to "fight elections from their areas". He also expressed a desire to "serve people on a bigger platform". from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2TzTxjh FP Staff

Sri Sri Ravishankar is part of a three-member panel appointed by the Supreme Court to mediate on the decades-old Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute in Ayodhya. Owaisi had on Friday said Ravishankar was "not a neutral person". from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2VPSide Press Trust of India

This comes after the Jammu and Kashmir administration stopped advertisements to the Greater Kashmir and Kashmir Reader after the Pulwama attack on 14 February. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2VPz1bU FP Staff

Pakistan has asked the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an international terror financing watchdog, to remove India as co-chair of its Asia-Pacific Joint Group, the Finance Ministry said on Saturday. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2HpiWWr Press Trust of India

Celebrities attend Akash Ambani and Shloka Mehta's wedding; Opposition slams Centre over Saturday's Nirav Modi sighting; Modi to address CISF troops today; and more. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2J3rzrV FP Staff

The extravagant Ambani-Mehta wedding affair will be attended by a bevy of world leaders and corporate personalities. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2tYvAUk FP Staff

The Election Commission on Saturday asked political parties to "desist from displaying photographs of defence personnel". from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2VNKqcg Press Trust of India

Anand Mahindra was among the first guests to arrive at the Akash Ambani wedding from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2VPL3C1 FP Staff

The NIA has summoned moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and the son of pro-Pakistani separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani for questioning in Delhi in a terror-financing case, officials said on Saturday from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2HavIZw Press Trust of India

"The PDP will remain in the forefront to oppose any such move. The policies being adopted by the central leadership towards the state are turning the already crisis-ridden region into a veritable inferno," Mehbooba Mufti said. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2TrcmFT Press Trust of India

The spokesperson said the Indian Army is retaliating strongly and effectively. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2tVBllA Press Trust of India

JEE Main April 2019 admit card can only be downloaded by candidates using their login credentials. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2u0tLGy Saakshi Varsha Lama

The CBI is awaiting a response on its extradition request which was sent to the United Kingdom through the External Affairs Ministry in August l from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2tYlTp2 Press Trust of India

Punjab's Malwa region, of which Sangrur is a district, has hundreds fighting cancer. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2HudSQH Arjun Sharma

In mid-February, FATF declined to ease the ongoing pressure on Pakistan. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2HaUyrZ FP Staff

The IED was found planted on the roadside by a police party during routine patrolling at Nandwal chowk on Khour-Pallanwala road, a police spokesman said. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2HoXRew Press Trust of India

After being called to New Delhi for consultations following the Pulwama attack last month, India's High Commissioner to Pakistan Ajay Bisaria will reach Islamabad on Saturday. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2HmIbZf Press Trust of India

This is the third Pakistani drone that has been shot at by the Indian security forces since the Indian Air Force carried out an air strike at the JeM terror camp in Balakot. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2CbZrNw Asian News International

Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy on Saturday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and sought the early release of Rs 2,064.30 crore funds to provide relief to drought-hit farmers in the ongoing Rabi season, an official statement said. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2J4uoJl Press Trust of India

Farmers in Bahraich find themselves face to face with a new predicament - hordes of stray cattle have been invading their fields and gobbling up their crops. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2VKeYeR Azeem Mirza

Rajnath Singh's comments come in the wake of an air strike conducted by the Indian Air Force (IAF) on 26 February, on a madrasa belonging to the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist group. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2J2yDW1 FP Staff

Narendra Modi also laid foundation stone of 1,320 MW thermal power plant in Khurja, Bulandshahr from Greater Noida and for 1320 MW power plant in Buxar, Bihar via video link. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2VMnR7F Press Trust of India

Anand Mahindra was among the first guests to arrive at the Akash Ambani wedding from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2J2Cbrg FP Staff

Self-interest is the best motivation for Pakistan, especially when it is hastened on by a sharp nudge or two from those who matter. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Cd81eP Tara Kartha

On the occasion of International Women's Day, Jaising wrote an open letter to Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi demanding a "ban on sexist language in courts". from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2UtaGbw FP Staff

In the wake of the Pulwama attack, Kashmiri people, especially students, had been attacked by mobs in parts of the country, forcing some of them to return to their home state. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2EKLN4y Saurabh Sharma

from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2EXnAch Murlidharan Shrinivasan

Tamil Nadu's minister for dairy development, KT Rajendra Balaji, said that due to Jayalalithaa's absence in Tamil Nadu, "Narendra Modi is our daddy." His comments come weeks after the AIADMK and the BJP formally announced their alliance for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2EYVb5M FP Staff

Narendra Modi inaugurated the 6.6-kilometre Noida City Centre-Noida Electronic City section of the Delhi metro and lauded Yogi Adityanath for "transforming" the state. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2NSTPfD FP Staff

The BJP aimed to turn the narrative of blame on the Nirav Modi case, and instead said it was under the Narendra Modi government that the fraud was unveiled. This implicitly alleges that the Congress was privy to the ongoing scam but did nothing to bring it to the fore. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2J1xOwy FP Staff

An overwhelming number of those who reacted on Twitter were politicians in the Opposition, who focused on how journalists of the London newspaper The Telegraph could track Nirav Modi down but the Indian government reportedly could not. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2TGMwwY FP Staff

Instead of re-evaluating its approach, the Election Commission has only doubled down on its flawed approach to the matter. While the latest move raises questions about privacy and confidentiality, it is also reflective of an approach to the regulation of elections that is entirely detached from the ground reality from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Ty8sug Alok Prasanna Kumar

Even though the Interpol has finally responded to CBI's request and issued a Red Corner Notice against Nirav Modi, don't expect the fraudster be back in India by next week from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2TrzeVG FP Staff

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Friday questioned the release of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) founder Masood Azhar in Afghanistan by the then BJP government in 1999 in exchange of the hijacked Indian airlines flight IC-814 despite his opposition. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2UtEtke Press Trust of India

The extravagant Ambani-Mehta wedding affair will be attended by a bevy of world leaders and corporate personalities. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2CbS0pL FP Staff

MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar, however, confirmed that the IAF's MiG-21 Bison, piloted by Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, shot down a Pakistan Air Force F-16 fighter aircraft and there were eyewitness accounts and electronic evidence of it. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2EYSf9e FP Staff

In its statement, the MEA has condemned Pakistan for not taking action against the Jaish-e-Mohammed, the terrorist outfit who claimed responsibility for the attack which killed at least 42 CRPF jawans were killed. The ministry has also accused the neighbouring country of "propagating a false narrative" of the events that have transpired since the attack from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2NQnXsc FP Staff

This year, there will be only one round of the annual polio drive in India. The campaign is usually held in two phases every year. India was officially declared polio-free by the World Health Organisation in 2014 from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2VLGybt FP Staff

Nirav Modi was approached by journalists hile walking through a busy London street and from footage shot he can be seen sporting a handlebar moustache and an expensive jacket. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2H5FRGI FP Staff

Patidar community leader Hardik Patel on Friday moved the Gujarat High Court to stay his conviction in a 2015 rioting case. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2HnFUwR Press Trust of India

Article 14 of the Constitution states no Indian must be discriminated on the basis of gender, religion and caste; no one must be on the basis of 'ability' as well. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Hin9Lo Aishwarya Rao

The Congress and the BJP on Friday sparred over Attorney General KK Venugopal 's claim that the Rafale documents were not stolen from the Defence Ministry with the Opposition party dubbing it a "lie" and the ruling party slamming Congress president Rahul Gandhi for his attack on the government over the issue. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2VMR7LG Press Trust of India

The only salutary aspect of Supreme Court's decision to appoint a three-member panel to mediate in Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case, or the Ayodhya dispute, is that its forbidding shadow will not fall on the forthcoming Lok Sabha election from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2UsQJSa Ajaz Ashraf

Bhavani Ilavenil is the author of a book which looks at the life and struggles of three-time MLA and MP Dr Satyavani Muthu, one of the earliest Dalit leaders of DMK. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Cb9WAx Bhavani Ilavenil

Nirav Modi was approached by journalists hile walking through a busy London street and from footage shot he can be seen sporting a handlebar moustache and an expensive jacket. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2tWv88S FP Staff

In The Ferment, Rohith Vemula's suicide is the incident which triggers inquiry into and the mapping of students' protests, their assertions through literature and through their sheer numbers from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2VLSeer Yogesh Maitreya

Nirav Modi was approached by journalists hile walking through a busy London street and from footage shot he can be seen sporting a handlebar moustache and an expensive jacket. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2VLN4z5 FP Staff

Amid reports of the abduction of an army jawan in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district, the Defence Ministry on Saturday clarified that the information is incorrect. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2tXEf9y FP Staff

In the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack on 14 February, the thought of avoiding civilisation altogether did cross the mind from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2NQJbGh Misria Ali

Today's top stories: Congress president Rahul Gandhi to launch the Congress' Lok Sabha election campaign in Telangana, Priyanka Gandhi to visit Lucknow, KK Venugopal makes a U-turn on Rafale statement, and more from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2EOvP9m FP Staff

Mohammad Yaseen Bhat, an army jawan visiting his hometown, was kidnapped by militants from his residence at Qazipora village in Chadoora at Budgam on late Friday evening. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Ca9Fy3 FP Staff

Mohammad Yaseen Bhat, an army jawan visiting his hometown, was kidnapped by militants from his residence at Qazipora village in Chadoora at Budgam on late Friday evening. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2VOWPN3 FP Staff

The CPI (Maoist) has exhorted people in Bastar to celebrate International Women's Day with gusto, and has put up pamphlets, posters and banners. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2tVbyKl Debobrat Ghose

With this new section entirely elevated, the Delhi Metro forayed into the interiors of Ghaziabad for the first time, touching the industrial areas in twin cities of Ghaziabad and Sahibabad. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2EIy3Hw Press Trust of India

An electric circuit and a battery was found during inspection, the officials said, dispelling rumours that a bomb-like substance was detected outside the airport. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2TqBVXB Press Trust of India

The paper said the relative calm after last week's confrontation between the two nations is not a solution. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2EINrUe Press Trust of India

Former media executive Peter Mukerjea is the "silent killer" of Sheena Bora, the daughter of his wife Indrani Mukerjea from a previous relationship, the CBI told a special court on Friday while opposing his bail plea in the 2012 murder case. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2TmLcQB Press Trust of India

Attorney General KK Venugopal Friday claimed the Rafale documents were not stolen from the defence ministry and that the petitioners used 'photocopies of the original', days after his comment in Supreme Court cause a political row from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2EEk05u Press Trust of India

An spokesperson of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said that the ministry through an advisory to the states and Union territories asked them to reinforce the existing arrangements to ensure safety and security of persons belonging to Jammu and Kashmir residing in their respective jurisdictions, from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2VMUGBw Press Trust of India

Congress president Rahul Gandhi condemned the violence against Kashmiris and said India belonged to its citizens from every corner of the country. His reaction come after two Kashmiri vendors selling dry fruits were thrashed by a group of saffron-clad men in Lucknow on Wednesday. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2CaC0UJ Press Trust of India

The two men behind Imran Khan's war against terrorism - interior minister Shehryar Afridi and future NSA Ijaz Shah - have deep-rooted ties with top terrorists in Pakistan, including JeM chief Masood Azhar and JuD's Hafiz Saeed from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2UpKmz2 Srinivasa Prasad

The Cachar Paper Mill's closure has rendered not just the employees destitute but also a large number of people whose livelihood indirectly depended on it. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2CbYa99 Swapnaneel Bhattacharjee

Union ministers Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Nitin Gadkari Friday laid the foundation stones for two high-speed highway corridors -- Rs 90,000 crore Delhi-Mumbai Expressway and Rs 9,000 crore Dwarka Expressway from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2TFwqni Press Trust of India

Pakistan's PR victory over India post Balakot is primarily due to two concurrent reasons: The effectiveness of Pakistan's and the dismal nature of India's communication strategy from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2TDgjqr FP Staff

Narendra Modi on Friday asked state governments to take stern action if there is any attack on Kashmiris, calling those who targeted them recently in Lucknow "crazed people". from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2HiFoAq Press Trust of India

You can be a part of this change by enrolling to the 'India Steps Challenge 2019'. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Gy2jrK FP Studio

Ayodhya dispute: Over the years, the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case has become more political than religious; the Supreme Court order has managed to keep political parties outside the mediation from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2HmrDRl Sanjay Singh

A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta observed this after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who was appearing for Haryana, said he will satisfy the court that amendments in the Punjab Land Preservation Act (PLPA), 1900 were not done to "help somebody" from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2VMy1oN Press Trust of India

India's ability to set the narrative and achieve consistency in messaging post Balakot seems to have nosedived compared to its performance during the Doka La stand-off with China. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2HoFLcD Sreemoy Talukdar

Days after New Delhi launched a preemptive strike against the Jaish-e-Mohammed's (JeM) largest training camp in the country, a media report said Pakistan on Friday lodged a First Information Report (FIR) against "unidentified pilots" of the Indian Air Force (IAF) for bombing and destroying 19 trees in the Balakot area. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2tYYqDO Press Trust of India

Bollywood personalities have shared posts on social media to mark the global holiday of Women's Day from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Hi37AN FP Staff

While the IAF initially cited 'technical snag' as cause of the crash, they later told families of the personnel that more information will emerge once the investigation into the case is completed. However, no one has given any answers to the mother of 22-year-old Kifayat, a brick kiln worker who lost his life after as he rushed towards the blazing chopper to rescue the pilots after it had crashed. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2H9fwHK Aquib Bhat

In the age of digital data, India needs data protection laws beyond the ones that exist today. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2H7SdOy Rohit MA

Praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his depth of knowledge, understanding and quick learning, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Friday said speeches of any prime minister become records of history. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2HlJ4kL Press Trust of India

The PIL alleged that a category of persons in Assam whose names were deleted from the voter list were some whose names appeared in the draft NRC published on 30 July, 2018. The petition claimed these people had voted in the last Lok Sabha election held in 2014 from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Uslu9I Press Trust of India

Tamil Nadu chief minister K Palaniswami urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to confer Param Vir Chakra, the country's highest military honour, on IAF pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2TCNJ8u Press Trust of India

The IAF on Thursday said it was in a high state of preparedness to pro-actively engage any perceived threat from Pakistan, in clear indication that underlying tension between the two countries had remained. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2IZTGII Press Trust of India

The Delhi High Court on Friday stayed the trial against former AIADMK leader TTV Dhinakaran in a case of allegedly bribing Election Commission officials for getting the 'two leaves' symbol for the Sasikala-led faction of the party. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2EJc1nV Press Trust of India

A MiG-21 fighter plane crashed in Shobhasar village near Rajasthan's Bikaner on Friday. This comes over a week after India lost a MiG-21 after Pakistan Air Force shot it down during a dogfight on 27 February. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2Tor5l2 FP Staff

Today, with its purported crackdown on the Jamaat-ud-Dawa - an organisation founded and maintained by Lashkar-founder and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed - Pakistan is once again presented with an opportunity to make good of its anti-terrorist agency. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2H7hkRE Soumashree Sarkar

Police said some batteries were found wrapped in the package near Jammu Airport and an investigation has been launched in the matter from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2IX3iDW FP Staff

from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2H8Ep6n Dinesh Unnikrishnan

The Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute in Ayodhya saw a new development on Friday after the Supreme Court appointed a mediation panel in an effort to resolve the decades-old conflict 'outside the court'. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2H736Ag FP Staff

Local people rushed to rescue the people from the car. While four died on the spot, seven were injured in the acident, two among them critically from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2HlL6kW Press Trust of India

Shortly after the Supreme Court ordered that a court-appointed panel undertake mediation to resolve Ayodhya's Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case, the former judge leading the panel, as well as a Muslim body's leader, responded to the development. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2tSN6cw FP Staff

On International Women's Day, several e-commerce websites are giving out attractive offers from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2HjEraZ FP Staff

International Women's Day is celebrated every year on 8 March to honour the strength and power of one half of the world and the reason for the other half, women. This year's theme is: 'Balance for Better' from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2tSN44o Kritvi Paliwal

According to the Deloitte report titled 'Empowering Women and Girls in India for the Fourth Industrial Revolution', 95 percent or 195 million women are employed in the unorganised sector or are in unpaid work. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2HlzZZd Press Trust of India

Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravishankar, appointed by the Supreme Court as a member of a panel to mediate the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case, on Friday said everybody must move together to end long-standing conflicts. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2tXeBBM Press Trust of India

Shipra, also known as Kshipra, is now dry in long stretches and wherever one finds water it's all mixed with solid waste, sewage and silt. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2H1JFZN Manish Chandra Mishra

Withsix big dams and power projects on it, the river has been facing environmental threats from illegal mining, deforestation, and now the river linking project. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2VIfZUL Manish Chandra Mishra

A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi asked the Tamil Nadu government to inform within two weeks about the steps taken regarding prevention of defacement of natural resources like hills, mountains, rocks and public places from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2EV3v6u Press Trust of India

The fourth part of the section titled 'Religion' examines the differing views of high school and college graduates from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2VMuuae YouGov India and Firstpost

The timeline of the mediation process for the Ayodhya dispute as prescribed by the court directs the panel to begin mediation within a week from Friday and has granted the duration of eight weeks for the process. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2EUkHt5 FP Staff

The Supreme Court has ordered the mediation in Ayodhya case to be completed within 8 months and the first report to be submitted within four weeks. Former Supreme Court judge FM Kalifulla, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and senior advocate and mediator Sriram Panchu will constitute the three-team mediation panel. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2TBK5vv Shishir Tripathi

If a look is taken at female labour force participation (FLFP), a World Bank report found that the rate in India fell to 27 percentin 2017 from 37 percent in 2006. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2IYesZd Yael Ajgarni

Shortly after the Supreme Court ordered that a court-appointed panel undertake mediation to resolve Ayodhya's Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case, the former judge leading the panel, as well as a Muslim body's leader, responded to the development. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2TBK7DD FP Staff

Senior Congress leader S Jaipal Reddy on Thursday claimed that Rafale negotiations were brought to an "advanced stage" during UPA regime but the Modi government "delayed" the deal. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2J24whd Press Trust of India

India and Pakistan should quickly turn the page following the Pulwama terror attack and convert the present tensions into an opportunity for long term improvement in their relations, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said on Friday. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2EInynq Press Trust of India

During the preliminary investigation, the cop who allegedly shot Apple executive Vivek Tiwari claimed that he fired at the latter's car in self-defence as it tried to run over his motorbike. The bullet was allegedly fired by constable Prashant, while he was accompanied by Sandeep from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2TnbG4p Asian News International

Dalit women have been fighters throughout our lives, we contribute to our economy, we are the major shareholders and this country owes us. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2EInCDG Sujatha Surepally

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced that she will lead a padyatra (rally) in Kolkata on the occasion of International Women's Day on Friday. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2TmspVq FP Staff

The spokesman for the Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric was asked if the UN chief had spoken with the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan to de-escalate tensions between the two nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2EIbm6d Press Trust of India

Days after India said its air force hit a militant Islamist group's training camp on the site of a religious school in northeastern Pakistan, killing a large number of militants, the site appeared undamaged and deserted. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2TmsnwM Reuters

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday extended his greetings and saluted women power. "On International Women's Day, we salute our indomitable Nari Shakti," he tweeted. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2TBDr8I Asian News International

The mediation will take place in Uttar Pradesh's Faizabad and the three mediators or the members of the panel include: Former Supreme Court judge FM Kalifulla, spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and senior advocate Shriram Panchu. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2IYQqxa FP Staff

On International Women's day, a look at women in politics in India and their low representation in parliaments and decision-making roles. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2TDxqZ7 Shraddha Chowdhury

Describing women as the "backbone" of our society, Banerjee congratulated women across the world on this day. Emphasising that her government is committed to the empowerment of women, the chief minister said the state government has recently launched 'Swasthya Sathi' health insurance smart cards for them. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2IYQpcA Press Trust of India

Currently, positions like fellowships, lead scientist and professorships are not designed keeping both genders in mind. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2TzaqKV TV Padma

Riding high on an annual debate on whether such a day is more farce than celebration, more a capitalist ploy than genuine appreciation, International Women's Day arrives with the usual fanfare, each year, on 8 March. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2IYQnBu FP Staff

There is much to look forward to when local strengths & determination expand into global efforts. from Latest News India on Firstpost https://ift.tt/2THWCxT The Conversation