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Abu Dhabi, Mar 3: With the world's eyes on South Asia with the ongoing escalation between India and Pakistan - world leaders have contacted Prime Ministers of both countries to avoid conflict and maintain peace and stability in the region through dialogue - and the UAE leadership was one of the first countries to make efforts to ease tensions. His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown

Lahore, Mar 3: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said the decision to release IAF pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was not taken under any external pressure or compulsion. “We wanted to send a message to India. We don’t want to increase your grief, we don’t want to mistreat your citizens, we just want peace,” he told BBC Urdu in an interview. The pilot was captured by

Patna, Mar 3: Hitting out at opposition parties for questioning the recent air strike in Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday the armed forces were busy quelling terror, but the Congress and its allies are not convinced with their act of bravery. The statements made by the opposition parties after the preemptive air strike on terror camps have made only people of Pakistan happy

Patna, Mar 3: Hitting out at opposition parties for questioning the recent air strike in Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday the armed forces were busy quelling terror, but the Congress and its allies are not convinced with their act of bravery. The statements made by the opposition parties after the preemptive air strike on terror camps have made only people of Pakistan happy

Kolkata, Mar 3: Hitting out at BJP president Amit Shah for his criticism of opposition parties which questioned airstrikes in Pakistan, the TMC on Sunday said the saffron party leader should refrain from "lecturing others" on patriotism as he was a "proponent of divisive and hatred politics". The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) should stop taking credit for the airstrike as the armed forces belong to

Washington, Mar 3: India is a very high-tariff nation, US President Donald Trump alleged on Saturday, stating that he wants a reciprocal tax or at least some kind of tax. "India is a very high-tariff nation. They charge us a lot," Trump said in his address to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in the Maryland suburb of Washington DC. In his speech that lasted for more than two

Houston, Mar 3: Sini Mathews, the Indian-American foster mother of three-year-old special needs girl Sherin Mathews who was found dead in a culvert in suburban Dallas in 2017, was freed from jail after 15 months as the child endangerment charges against her have been dropped in the US due to lack of evidence. The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office said on Friday that there was not enough

New Delhi, Mar 3: The Trinamool Congress on Saturday accused BJP ministers of "leaking exaggerated numbers" to the media about the casualties in the air strike in Pakistan. The Mamata Banerjee-led TMC also claimed that no statistics given by the central government can be taken "seriously". Security forces have not officially attributed any number to those eliminated in the strike, Trinamool

Mysuru, Mar 2: Vidwan T P Vaidyanathan, renowned vocalist and a front-line artiste in the musical lineage of Mysore Vasudevacharya, died here in a private hospital following age related illness. He was 85. Born in 1934, Vaidyanathan was attracted to music at a very early age and his musical talents were nurtured by Vidwan B K Padmanabha Rao, a direct disciple of Vasudevacharya.

Patna, Mar 2: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that if his party was voted to power during the 2019 parliamentary elections, he would give a Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) to every Indian. This proposal, he assured, would be implemented as soon as the Congress-led Government assumes office in May 2019. “Unlike Narendra Modi, I never make false promises. I have been a Lok Sabha