SOURCE: PTI

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday admitted that Islamabad had “violated” an agreement with India signed by him and ex-prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1999, in an apparent reference to the Kargil misadventure by Gen Pervez Musharraf.

“On May 28, 1998, Pakistan carried out five nuclear tests. After that Vajpayee Saheb came here and made an agreement with us. But we violated that agreement…it was our fault,” Sharif told a meeting of the PML-N general council that elected him president of the ruling party six years after he was disqualified by the Supreme Court.

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Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Tuesday “unreservedly” apologized for “mistakenly” using the word ‘alleged’ for the Chinese invasion in 1962. According to a purported video of an event at the Foreign Correspondents Club this evening, Mr Aiyar while narrating an anecdote said, “…In October 1962, the Chinese allegedly invaded India.”

Later, in a brief statement, the Congress leader said, “I unreservedly apologise for having mistakenly used the word ‘alleged’ before ‘Chinese invasion’ at the Foreign Correspondents Club this evening.”

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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar reaffirmed that India is exerting pressure to become a permanent UNSC member.

He was speaking at an interaction with intellectuals in Shimla on Tuesday. “Regarding UNSC permanent membership, our aim is to get it as soon as possible. But, this target won’t be achieved that soon. Because the permanent members, still enjoy much clout. Whether it’s the Ukraine or Gaza, they make dealings among themselves on issues that affect the whole world. So, they won’t want that it (number of permanent members) becomes six, seven or eight,” Mr Jaishankar said addressing the event.

SOURCE: PTI

India’s leading shipyard, Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), on Monday said it has secured another prestigious international order from North Star Shipping, a top UK-based offshore renewable operator, for the construction of a hybrid Service Operation Vessels (SOVs).

They will be building hybrid SOVs for a contract with Siemens Gamesa. These vessels will be deployed at the Scottish Power Renewables East Anglia THREE offshore wind farm, situated off the Suffolk coast, an official release said here. A CSL source said the order is valued at EUR 60 million. It said the ship building contract also has an option to contract two more such vessels.

SOURCE: PTI

Elaborate safety arrangements, which may inconvenience visitors, are in place in Parliament to ensure that incidents such as last year’s security breach do not recur, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said on Tuesday.

Two people had jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber on December 13 and released smoke canisters while the House was in session. “We have made elaborate security arrangements to ensure that such incidents do not recur,” Mr Birla told PTI when asked about the safety measures put in place in the wake of the December 13 security breach.

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The border dispute between India and China has always been a big issue. Every day the opposition keeps cornering the government regarding this. Amidst all this, the Indian Army soldiers easily defeated the Chinese soldiers in the tug of war. A video of this has also surfaced, which is going viral on social media. In fact, during the deployment in Sudan, Africa under the United Nations Peace Keeping Mission, a sports competition took place between Indian soldiers and Chinese soldiers.

Giving information on Tuesday, an army officer said that soldiers of both the countries were face to face in the tug of war. This was a very exciting contest between the soldiers of both the countries. In this, Indian soldiers defeated the Chinese soldiers.

SOURCE: PTI

Investigators of the West Bengal CID on Tuesday claimed to have recovered pieces of flesh and strands of hair from the septic tank of a flat in New Town area near here, where Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar was suspected to have been murdered. An arrested person, who police claimed is a butcher by profession, allegedly chopped the body of the Bangladesh lawmaker into 80 pieces and mixed them with turmeric before disposing them of at different locations including a canal around New Town.

“A total of around 3.5 kg of flesh and some strands of hair were recovered from the septic tank. Forensic tests will be conducted on these items to confirm whether they belong to Anar or not,’ the officer told PTI. Assuming that blood was drained out of the washroom bathroom of the flat, where the lawmaker of the Bangladeshi ruling party, was suspected to have been murdered, a team of police officers had examined the drain pipes and the septic tank, he said.

SOURCE: PTI

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday arrested a wanted accused involved in the trafficking of Bangladeshi nationals and Rohingyas into India through the northeastern borders.

Jalil Miah, a resident of Tripura, has been arrested by the NIA team, an official statement said. The NIA had in February declared a cash reward of ? 1 lakh for information leading to the arrest of Jalil, who was absconding in the case, in addition to nine others.