Amidst a war of words between the Congress and the BJP over the face-off with China, NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday said matters of national security shouldn’t be politicised and added one cannot forget China had captured about 45,000 sq km of Indian land after the 1962 war. Pawar’s comments came in response to a query about Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s charge that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had surrendered Indian territory to Chinese aggression. Pawar also said the Galwan Valley incident in Ladakh cannot immediately be labelled as a failure of the Defence Minister as Indian soldiers were…
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New Delhi: Pakistani airbases in PoK are under India’s radar after a Chinese refueller aircraft landed in Skardu last week. Chinese air activity along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh has also increased. According to a report by ET, limited activity has been observed at the Skardu airbase and this comes after an IL 78 tanker of the PLAAF landed there a few days ago, apart from some Pakistan Air Force transport aircraft. Tensions between India and China have increased manifolds after 20 Indian Army personnel were martyred during an ambush by the PLA. During the violent skirmish,…
New Delhi: India, the third-biggest oil consumer, expects fuel demand to return to normal earlier than projections by the International Energy Agency and OPEC. “If you look at the trend of the past few weeks, I’m confident that by the end of second quarter, demand will be as usual,” India’s Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said at the BloombergNEF Summit, referring to the quarter ending September. “At the end of June, we have already achieved 85% of our demand compared to June 2019.” The world’s biggest lockdown put in place on March 25 in India pummeled demand for transportation and industrial fuels by as…
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Citizen security officers of the Mossos d’Esq…
Sunscreen? Check. Towel? Check. Mask? Disinfectant? At least six feet of space? Depends on where and what beach. As tourists and travelers start to return to many of the world’s seasides, government health officials and scientists are turning their attention to every inch of sand to assess the risk of the coronavirus’s spread. But while the novel coronavirus may dislike direct sun and open air, it loves a crowd and shared spaces. That’s why officials in southern England were so shocked last week by what they classed as a “major incident” amid a heat wave: thousands of people packing beaches, all…
The campaign to convince marketers to ditch Facebook has added one of the world’s largest advertising spenders. The global consumer packaged goods company Unilever announced Friday that it will halt its advertising on Facebook and Instagram, joining a growing movement to stop spending ad dollars on the social media platforms. The New Jersey-based conglomerate also said it would pull its advertising from Twitter because of a polarized climate on social media, which is being exacerbated by the November election. In a post on its website, Unilever referred to its “Responsibility Framework that calls for more responsible platforms, content and infrastructure.” “Continuing…