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Rio de Janeiro | Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with his Australian counterpart, Anthony Albanese, during which they launched a Renewable Energy Partnership aimed at boosting investment between the two nations. The official announcement came as the two leaders convened the 2nd India-Australia Annual Summit on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Brazil. The Renewable Energy Partnership aims to provide a framework for practical cooperation in priority areas such as solar PV, green hydrogen, and energy storage. Following the annual summit, the Ministry of External Affairs released a joint statement, India and Australia have shared ambitions to move…

New Delhi | Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to visit India and the dates for his trip are being finalised, the Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said. Addressing via video conferencing an event in New Delhi organised by Sputnik news outlet, Peskov said, we hope soon, very soon. We are looking forward to it we will figure out the dates of President Putin to India. This will be the first visit of Putin to India since the beginning of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia around three years ago. The Kremlin official's remarks came following talks between External Affairs…

New Delhi | Weeks after disengaging troops at Depsang and Demchok along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh, India and China have discussed the resumption of the Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage besides better sharing of data on trans-border rivers. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi met on the sidelines of the G20 Leaders’ Summit at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on Monday night and discussed next steps towards improving the bilateral ties. They deliberated on the resumption of direct flights between the two countries. The flights were suspended in view of the Covid-19 pandemic.…

Washington | A United States envoy said an agreement to end the Israel-Hezbollah war is within our grasp after talks in Lebanon. There was no such optimism in the Gaza Strip, where the looting of nearly 100 aid trucks by armed men worsened an already severe food crisis. Amos Hochstein, the Biden administration’s pointman on Israel and Lebanon, arrived as Hezbollah’s allies in the Lebanese government said it had responded positively to the proposal, which would entail both the militants and Israeli ground forces withdrawing from a UN buffer zone in southern Lebanon. The buffer zone would be policed by…

Chandigarh |  Haryana Urban Local Bodies Minister, Vipul Goel said that the pasting of posters and flexes on public properties/ buildings by private individuals, institutions, establishments and others for advertising of their own business is an illegal activity under the Haryana Prevention of Defacement of Property Act, 1989 and the Haryana Municipal Acts. Urban Local Bodies Minister, Vipul Goel was replying during the calling attention motion on the issue of defacement of public properties in the State by the affixation of stickers, bills and posters, during the Haryana Vidhan Sabha winter session here today. He informed the House that the…

Chandigarh | Haryana Development and Panchayat Minister, Krishan Lal Panwar, in response to concerns raised during call-attention motion in the House, stated that the Mahatma Gandhi Gramin Basti Yojana was launched in 2008 to provide 100 square yard plots to Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes, and Families living below the poverty line. However, due to various reasons, some beneficiaries were unable to take possession of the allotted plots. He further said that the Mukhyamantri Gramin Awas Yojana was introduced in 2024-25 by the Housing for All Department established by the present state government. Under this scheme, a state-level program was held…

Chandigarh | Haryana Chief Minister, Nayab Singh Saini while speaking during the ongoing session of the Vidhan Sabha here today said that a compensation policy is already in place for high-tension power lines passing through farmers' fields. Under this policy, farmers are entitled to get compensation at 200 percent of the market rate for the land coming under the tower area. Besides this, farmers will get 30 percent of the market rate as compensation for the land coming under the power lines passing through their fields.  The Chief Minister said that for a long time, farmers had been demanding a…

Chandigarh | Six bills were passed after discussion on the fourth day of the winter session of the Haryana Legislative Assembly. These include the Haryana Appropriation (No. 3) Bill, 2024, the Indian Civil Defense Code (Haryana Amendment) Bill, 2024, the Haryana Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Act, 2024, the Haryana Agricultural Land Lease Bill, 2024, the Haryana Extension Professor and Guest Professor (Assurance of Service), Bill, 2024 and the Haryana Technical Education Guest Faculty (Assurance of Service), Bill, 2024. The Haryana Appropriation (No. 3) Bill, 2024 This Act may be called the Haryana Appropriation (No. 3) Act, 2024. The sums…

Canada | Two people are recovering in a Calgary hospital and one person is in custody following an attack at a home in central Alberta, RCMP say. Police received a call about a disturbance at a home in Cremona. The person making the call was in Calgary, and told officers there was a man in the house who was attacking two people. When RCMP arrived, they found an 86-year-old man and a 59-year-old woman who had been seriously hurt and were in medical distress. Police say a responding officer searched the home and found the suspect in the basement. There…

Canada | A Calgary doctor is facing charges after allegedly sexually assaulting several patients over a four-year period. Calgary police say four people came forward in 2023 to report being assaulted by their family physician who worked at the Brentwood Medical Clinic in the city’s northwest. It is alleged each victim was assaulted in an examination room at the clinic between 2016 and 2020 when the suspect “performed non-consensual sexual acts” during their exams. Police have charged 46-year-old Phu Truoung Vu with four counts of sexual assault. He is set to appear on court on Dec. 3. Anyone with additional…