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India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India India and the US have concretised a plan to expand their partnership in the space sector by deciding to work on an agreement on space situational awareness (SSA) during the first in-person bilateral meeting between PM Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden recently on the sidelines of the Quad summit. https://ift.tt/3F2KV9I

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India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Amid the frantic firefighting in Punjab, Congress found itself dragged into the Chhattisgarh power struggle on Wednesday when around 15 party MLAs — loyalists of CM Bhupesh Baghel — landed in Delhi in the evening, apparently to lobby against any change of guard in the state. https://ift.tt/2Y4iSWT

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India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Amid growing defections from the party and the chaos in the Punjab unit, Congress veteran and G-23 leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has asked the leadership to convene a meeting of the Congress Working Committee. https://ift.tt/3ilr2kl

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India The turmoil in Punjab Congress and the G-23 offensive against the leadership has triggered a bitter war of words, with Congress leaders slamming Kapil Sibal and some others for raising concerns about “instability in Punjab”. Former MP and Delhi leader Ajay Maken said, “Sonia Gandhi had ensured that Sibal became a minister at the Centre despite not having an organisational background. Everyone in the party is being heard. Want to tell Sibal and others that they shouldn’t degrade the organization that gave them an identity.” https://ift.tt/2ZKu37u

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Congress veteran and ‘G23’ leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has asked the party brass to convene a CWC meeting to discuss the problems in Punjab. Another ‘G23’ leader, Kapil Sibal, said the party was “headless” and no one knew who was taking decisions. ​​Leaders close to “them” (leadership) have left the party, while “we” (G23) are standing by them, he added. Suggesting they were loyal but not blind, Sibal said, “We are G23, not Ji Huzoor 23”. https://ift.tt/3AXM0go

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Former Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday called on Union home minister Amit Shah at the latter’s residence here. The two leaders had a meeting of over 50 minutes, boosting speculation about the Congress leader either joining BJP or allying with it for the Punjab polls. https://ift.tt/3ATzGxR

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India The Supreme Court on Wednesday warned that chronic mudslingers taking potshots at the judiciary and judges cannot escape the rigour of punishment under the contempt of court law by tendering an apology, which is not borne out of remorse but is an attempt to save their skin when caught in an inescapable situation. https://ift.tt/3ijVL1k

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India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India More people are now undergoing a one-off genetic test costing Rs 8,000 to assess if they are born with a predisposition to heart diseases. The genomic risk score, also called polygenic score, currently prescribed for high-risk individuals — with family history of heart diseases, uncontrolled diabetes, hypertension or cholesterol levels — helps doctors assess risk, prevent or delay heart diseases, said senior cardiologist Dr S Ajit Mullasari at the Madras Medical Mission. https://ift.tt/3uqewFh

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Ahead of Diwali, six big firecracker manufacturers on Wednesday faced the ire of the Supreme Court, which asked them to explain why contempt of court proceedings be not initiated against them for using the banned chemical barium and its salts in producing crackers. https://ift.tt/3m7yv7T

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India A fortnight after the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence seized 3,000 kg of Afghan heroin worth approximately Rs 21,000 crore from two containers at Mundra port in Gujarat, DRI’s Lucknow and Noida units in a joint operation arrested the head of the drug cartel in India from Shimla. https://ift.tt/3oy7PjB

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought response from Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) to a year-and-half old complaint by a devotee of Lord Balaji that irregularities have crept into the daily “puja and archana” in the temple causing consternation among devotees of the principal deity.​ https://ift.tt/3oi0Dro

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Breastfeeding is an inalienable constitutional right of a lactating mother and the right of the infant needs to be assimilated with the mother’s right, the Karnataka high court observed on Wednesday. It was disposing a batch of petitions filed by the biological mother and foster parents of a toddler. https://ift.tt/3m3zXrO

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India The Union Cabinet on Wednesday scaled up the national mid-day meal scheme as ‘PM-POSHAN’ which will also cover students of ‘Balvatikas’ (pre-primary classes) and provide hot cooked meals to students of elementary classes in government and aided schools. https://ift.tt/3F26JCg

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India India is likely to send a three-member team to participate in a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) anti-terror exercise in Pakistan next week, TOI has learnt. The Pabbi anti-terror Exercise 2021 is being held at Pabbi in Pakistan’s Nowshera district from October 3 under the aegis of SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) which seeks to promote counter-terrorism cooperation between SCO member-states. https://ift.tt/3EW0P5A

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India BSF inspector general (Jammu frontier) N S Jamwal on Wednesday was promoted to the rank of additional director general (ADG) and posted to the prestigious Western Command in Chandigarh. Jamwal, a native of Jammu, has 37 years of professional experience working in different fields. https://ift.tt/3F2fuw2

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Above-normal rainfall this month, which turned out to be the second wettest September in the past 27 years, has almost bridged the deficit of the monsoon season with the cumulative rainfall showing the gap to be narrowed down from 9% on August 31 to merely 1% on Wednesday, indicating the four-month season may finally be logged as ‘near normal’ monsoon. https://ift.tt/3CYqady

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India The curious case of Navjot Singh Sidhu’s resignation as Punjab PCC chief within 10 days of his bête noire Amarinder Singh’s exit as CM unravelled on Wednesday when he declared the new-look Congress government’s choice of advocate general and the re-entry of “tainted” ministers into the restructured cabinet forced his hand. https://ift.tt/3upACaJ

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Jammu and Kashmir National Conference president and former chief minister Dr Farooq Abdullah was due to address the Hindus for Labour event at the Hilton Hotel, Brighton, via video link on Wednesday as its keynote speaker. TOI has seen a letter from him confirming he would address the conference. https://ift.tt/3CVD1wX

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India The Supreme Court on Tuesday said the West Bengal government has made out a case for entertaining its appeal challenging a Calcutta high court order directing CBI and SIT probe into post-poll violence in May after Trinamool Congress, led by Mamata Banerjee, romped home in the assembly elections with a massive mandate. https://ift.tt/3CVQAfW

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India To ensure that those approaching courts in commercial disputes “understand that courts are not playgrounds, and litigation is not a pastime,” the Bombay HC recently directed a private company to pay Rs 25 lakh to a party against whom it was seeking orders. https://ift.tt/3AQI2X0

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Come October 1, senior citizens seeking work opportunities will be able to register themselves on a first-of-its-kind dedicated employment exchange portal for the elderly. The ‘Senior Able Citizens for Re-Employment in Dignity (Sacred)’ portal, being steered by the ministry of social justice and empowerment (MoSJ&E), will enable “virtual matching” of employable elderly of 60 years and above with employers who come forward and register on the platform. https://ift.tt/3m1O1C6

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India The north-eastern states generally have the highest ratio of female workers in managerial positions, with Meghalaya topping the chart with 34.1%, followed by Sikkim and Mizoram, according to the annual bulletin of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS).​ https://ift.tt/3kQQSyy

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Builders cannot get away by handing over maintenance and administration of a housing society to the residents’ welfare association if the project remains unfinished without all infrastructure and facilities promised to the homebuyers and will need to compensate the RWAs, the Supreme Court said.​ https://ift.tt/3kOW85K

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India After the central leadership completely owned the Punjab restructuring and felt it had settled the chaotic unit, the surprise resignation by state president Navjot Singh Sidhu caught everyone by surprise and threatened to destabilise its stronghold and cast the Gandhi leadership in poor light. https://ift.tt/3kVnbMR

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India Hours before Navjot Singh Sidhu quit from the post of Punjab Congress president, chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Tuesday defended his decision to appoint senior advocate A P S Deol as new advocate general (AG) of the state.​ https://ift.tt/3oeL57M