India has asked Japan and South Korea to renegotiate their free-trade agreements (FTAs) with the South Asian nation to make it "more balanced and equitable", India's trade minister said on Thursday, amid a widening trade gap with the countries. Japan and Korea - we opened our markets for them. They have not allowed our exports to their country... What it was 10 years ago, it is the same today with Japan," Trade Minister Piyush Goyal said at an event in New Delhi. Japan's exports to India have, meanwhile, grown 200%, he added.
Harley-Davidson said on Thursday that pre-orders were "exceeding expectations" for a new model the U.S. big-bike maker launched this month in India in partnership with a local manufacturer. Harley and British rival Triumph have unveiled their cheapest models globally in India, the largest motorbike market by sales, to tap into higher spending in premium segments across categories as varied as mobile phones and cars.
As many as 8,330 Indian nationals are lodged in jails in foreign countries with 1,611 imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates alone, the government informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. In a written reply in the Upper House, Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan said 1,461 Indian nationals were in prisons in Saudi Arabia followed by 1,222 in Nepal, 696 in Qatar, 446 in Kuwait, 341 in Malaysia, 308 in Pakistan, 294 in the US, 277 in Bahrain and 249 in the UK.
The Allahabad High Court on Thursday reserved till August 3 its verdict on a plea against a Varanasi district court order directing the Archaeological Survey of India to conduct a survey to determine if the Gyanvapi mosque was built upon a temple. The court of Chief Justice Pritinker Diwaker also ordered that the stay on the ASI survey will continue till August 3. The high court was hearing the plea filed by Anjuman Intezamia Masjid, which manages the mosque.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Raghav Chadha says, “It has been decided that representatives of political parties that fall under the I. N.D.I.A bloc will visit Manipur, with the hope of providing support and standing in solidarity with the people of Manipur. And whatever they find there, see there, will also be put on a piece of paper and brought to the notice of those who control the levers of power to finally wake up and see what's happening in Manipur.”
-- Opposition parties will hold the next meeting of their 26-member INDIA coalition in Mumbai on August 25 and 26.
-- The third meeting of the bloc will be hosted jointly by the Shiv Sena (UBT) and the NCP's Sharad Pawar faction, with support from the Congress.
-- This is the first time that the opposition meeting will be held in a state where no member of the INDIA bloc is in power.
-- While the first meeting of opposition parties was hosted by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) in Patna, the second was held in Bengaluru and hosted by the Congress.
“Today, a total of 9,150 devotees took darshan at the Amarnath Cave shrine, taking the cumulative figure of devotees to 369,288. This surpasses last year's total of 365,721 devotees taking the Yatra,” J&K Department of Information and Public Relations informed.
Three full board members have written to the International Cricket Council for a change in the schedule of their matches in the ODI World Cup in India, BCCI secretary Jay Shah said.
Speaking after a meeting with the associations hosting World Cup games, Shah said the issue of scheduling will be sorted in the next three-four days.
"Three members have written to the ICC for a schedule change. Only the date and timings will be changed, venues will not be changed. If there is a six-day gap between games, we are trying to reduce to 4-5 days," Shah said.
"All over the world, 35% of murders of women are happening because of live-in relationships. In 1978, the court said that in India, live-in relationships are unethical but not illegal. In a way, the court recognised it and this led to an increase in live-in relationships, the court also said that the woman partner will get all the rights as a wife in such a relationship, the motive behind this decision was to secure the future of children that are born out of these relationships. But this order is being misused, that's why I raised this issue...society must decide, what kind of nation they need, should we move forward with our cultural heritage or do we need to make our nation America or Mexico,” says BJP MP Ajay Pratap Singh
The mobile phone from which Manipur women viral video was shot has been recovered and the person who shot the video is arrested, top government sources inform
Government sources say the law and order situation is relatively better in Manipur, however, not normal. Nearly 35,000 security personnel are on the ground; no shortage of medicine and daily supplies; prices of food and essential supplies are under control. A large number of government staff are returning to work and schools also resuming.
The Centre held several rounds of talks with members of Kuki and Meitei communities, six rounds of talks with each community were held, news agency ANI reported quoting top government sources
