Mishra, who didn’t name any country, explained this in the context of India’s expectation of the climate conference’s outcome which, he said, should be inconsistent with the principles of the Paris Agreement. 
Even in the two days after polling in MP on November 28, satta markets in Indore and Bhopal reportedly backed Congress citing the record turnout of 75%, sources said. In latest speculation, the market is accepting bets on over 120 seats for Congress and 98-plus for BJP.
Voting began at 8 am at 3,174 polling stations — 410 in the Kashmir division and 2,764 in the Jammu division — they added.
A woman related to Bill Gates how she had hidden the fact that she was a sex worker from her daughter. When her classmates found out the truth, they relentlessly teased, harassed and ostracised the girl. One day her mother came home to find her child hanging from the ceiling fan. Upon hearing the woman's story, Bill had his head down and was crying quietly.
The Russia-India-China meeting came hours after Prime Minister Modi, his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump held their first trilateral meeting on the margins of the summit.
The three right-leaning leaders — US President Donald Trump, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — met on the sidelines of the summit of the G20 economic powers in Buenos Aires. With the meeting lasting around 15 minutes, the three-way summit was more about symbolism than planning strategy, but it comes as all three share concerns on China's rising clout.
The two leaders have met twice after their informal summit in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late April -- once at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit held in June in China's Qingdao and the second time at the BRICS summit in South Africa's Johannesburg in July.
Using initials of each of the three nations, the Prime Minister coined the term “JAI” (Japan-America-India), which in the Hindi language translates to success or victory. The Prime Minister said that the acronym sends a positive message at the outset of the new partnership’s ventures to maintain peace, stability and prosperity across the world.
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After being in political oblivion for close to two decades, former Indian cricket captain Mohammed Azharuddin was on Friday appointed as working president of the Congress party in Telangana. Soon after assuming charge, Azhar said he was keen to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Secunderabad.
Snehlata Sukhwal and Parvati Sukhwal tirelessly complete the 13km-long trail of the grand Chittorgarh fort on foot everyday. But they don’t hesitate to vent out their ire at the successive governments for lack of women toilet facilities, unsafe environment with illegal guides, no facilitation of pre-paid autos or battery rickshaws.
Power supply to the EVM strong room in Bhopal snapped for one and a half hours on Friday, cutting off CCTV cameras and LED screens showing live status of the EVMs, triggering a major controversy in the tense wait for results day.
Responding to a move by State Bank of India intimating its intention to discontinue AePS, the UIDAI said, “Any action to discontinue such payments or receipt mechanism or bank accounts on the grounds that it is not possible to distinguish their use for delivery of welfare benefits or other purposes may be held contrary to Section 7 of the Aadhaar Act and the (SC) judgment.”
This being the first trilateral on the margins of the G-20, the meeting seals the importance of the Indo-Pacific framework as a new policy architecture in this region. In his remarks, PM Narendra Modi is learned to have put out five action points — connectivity, sustainable development, maritime security, disaster relief and freedom of navigation — as issues with which the trilateral group should engage the countries of the region.
A BSF study that examined demographic changes has found a departure from traditional Rajasthani culture in terms of personal grooming such as hairstyles and dress. The study also found a high 22-25 per cent growth rate in Muslim population as compared to 8-10 per cent of other communities. There is a rise in religiosity with higher attendance of children at mosques.
Addressing the two-day farmers' protest at Parliament Street, the political leaders also backed the demand for passage of legislation guaranteeing ‘freedom from indebtedness' and ‘remunerative prices' in line with recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission. The meeting saw opposition leaders attack PM Narendra Modi, saying the government failed to meet the expectation of the farming community.
Rejecting a petition by 700-odd Army personnel protesting dilution of protection from prosecution under Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act in disturbed areas for alleged fake encounters, the Supreme Court on Friday said it ordered a CBI probe only in a few specific cases after finding that the Army had not conducted any inquiry into 15-20-year-old incidents.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday met for their first trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit to discuss major issues of global and multilateral interests.
"He (Khemaram) has been given two days' time to give his reply. An independent candidate Santosh Meghwal has also been issued an EC notice for holding a meeting without permission in Sujangarh. He will also give a reply in two days," said Sujangarh returning officer Savina Vishnoi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday interacted with US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin and British Prime Minister Theresa May ahead of the G-20 summit here.
The BJP on Friday alleged that Robert Vadra had put pressure on Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi for revocation of an Income Tax department order penalising a company that gave a loan to another entity to buy his land in Rajasthan.
The number of arrests made in the case has increased to two after one Amarnath Kumar alias Amarnath Dom (35) was arrested a GRP team from Ballia in connection with the smuggling case on Wednesday. He was forwarded to jail on Thursday.
BJP MP Varun Gandhi has said MNREGA, a scheme from the UPA era which guarantees employment in rural areas, was a "good policy". PM Modi had once called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) scheme a "living monument of UPA's failure" to tackle poverty
In an embarrassment to the CBI, a Delhi court on Friday said the agency was not maintaining secrecy in the investigation of the coal scam, despite the Supreme Court's direction, and the information was being shared by the agency officials with outsiders.
"There is no corruption in the SC. It has never ever occurred to me. I have never heard about it," former SC Judge Justice Kurian Joseph said. Justice Joseph, was part of the January 12 press conference in which now Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Lokur and former judge Justice J Chelameswar had raised serious questions over various issues.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said terrorism and radicalisation was the biggest challenges the world was facing and underlined the need for the BRICS and G-20 countries to work together to strengthen the UN counter-terrorism framework to stop terrorist networks, their financing and movement.
Saudi Arabia has offered India to supply oil and petroleum products it needs to meet its growing energy demands during a meeting between Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, official Saudi media reported on Friday.
An NRI octogenarian from Germany handed over her ancestral land in Gujarat for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project, making it the first stretch of land to be acquired by the national transporter in the state for the project, an NHSRCL official said on Friday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday met Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 summit here and discussed how to strenghten the bilateral ties between the two neighbours.
Amid the raging row over his Pakistan visit, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu said on Friday it was Congress president Rahul Gandhi who sent him there for attending the foundation laying ceremony of the Kartarpur Sahib corridor.
