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New York: India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), Parvathaneni Harish, on Monday stressed the need for UN Security Council reform, noting that despite decades of discussions, there have been no significant changes since 1965. Addressing the Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly in New York, Mr Harish said, “As we begin this year’s deliberations, we note that the reform of the UN Security Council was once again identified as a critical and immediate priority at the summit of the future discussions by our leaders. However, in spite of several decades of collective reiteration of this sentiment, it is…

New Delhi: The Left government in Kerala on Monday suspended two IAS officers, K Gopalakrishnan and N Prasanth, for violation of discipline, official sources said. While Gopalakrishnan was suspended for creating a religion-based WhatsApp group of government officials, action was taken against Prasanth for criticising a senior IAS officer on social media, they added. They also said that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan ordered the suspension of the officials based on the report he received from the Chief Secretary. While Gopalakrishnan was the Director of Industries and Commerce, Prasanth held the responsibility of Special Secretary in the Department of Agriculture Development…

Ranchi: The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday raided multiple locations in poll-bound Jharkhand apart from West Bengal in a money laundering investigation linked to alleged illegal infiltration of Bangladeshi nationals, official sources said. A total of 17 places are being covered in the two neighbouring states by the Jharkhand office of the federal probe agency. The agency had in September filed a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to probe an instance of alleged infiltration and trafficking of some Bangladeshi women into Jharkhand leading to the generation of alleged slush funds. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other BJP…

New Delhi: Shiv Kumar Gautam, the main accused in the murder case of Maharashtra politician Baba Siddique, has said that he was ordered to kill either the 66-year-old leader or his MLA son, Zeeshan Siddique, police sources said. The 20-year-old was arrested along with his four aides from Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich on Sunday while he was trying to flee to Nepal. Shiv Kumar is among the three shooters — Gurnail Singh, a resident of Haryana and Dhramraj Kashyap of Uttar Pradesh — who shot dead Mr Siddique outside Zeeshan Siddique’s office in Mumbai on October 12. While Singh and Kashyap…

Team Goemkarponn BAMBOLIM: A container truck registered in Haryana that was shipping air conditioners from Goa to Delhi swerved off the Bambolim highway and flipped, seriously damaging the vehicle. The truck was driven into a roadside ditch by Dinesh Yadav, who said he swerved to escape an oncoming car. Yadav, who was crying, remarked, “We are truck drivers who must be careful on the road.” “I moved to the side and fell into the ditch to save him when the car got in the way.” A clearly frightened Yadav returned to the scene after being treated for minor injuries at…

Mumbai: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday called for “urgent” measures to address the issue of widening trade deficit between India and Russia. While India’s exports to Russia stood at only USD 2.24 billion in April-August this fiscal, imports soared to USD 27.35 billion during the period. The trade deficit is aggregated at USD 25.11 billion. The high trade deficit is mainly on account crude imports. Russia emerged as India’s biggest supplier of crude oil, which is converted into fuels like petrol and diesel in refineries, after Russian oil was available on discount following some European nations shunning purchases…

New Delhi: Defending champions India beat Malaysia 4-0 in their opening match of the women’s Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament here on Monday. India scored through Sangita Kumari (8th, 55th minutes), Preeti Dubey (43rd) and Udita (44th). India will next play South Korea on Tuesday. In other matches of the day, Japan and Korea played out a 2-2 draw, while Olympic silver medallist China thrashed Thailand 15-0. India were slow to start the game and Malaysia’s Nur Mohd was presented with the first opportunity to score after a clever run in behind the defence but Indian goalkeeper Savita was on…