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'The Fall Of Kabul: Despatches From Chaos' is now available in bookstores across India & online
- What was happening inside Afghanistan in Aug 2021?
- Havoc inside capital Kabul as Taliban came in?
- How Afghan forces were coping as NATO troops wrapped up?
Get your copy now!
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Aboard a C-17 Globemaster with the entire Indian Embassy staff, ITBP personnel and other civilians … Took-off from
#Kabul
earlier today at 6:30 AM IST and landed at Air Force Station, Jamnagar at 11 AM. Expect to land in Delhi by 5:30-6 PM.
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Just In �� India and UK have decided to set up an anti-extremist task force, mainly looking at the Khalistan issue, says British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a media conference.
@ThePrintIndia
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We, at
@ThePrintIndia
, believe in reaching there where the news happens. Right now, I am at Mazhar-i-Sharif where the Taliban is fast making advances. Today the Indian consulate here also shut down temporarily and diplomats are being evacuated. Keep watching/ reading us for more.
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How I negotiated with the Taliban to save myself, how a stranger was ready to take a bullet for me… Read my experience of the day when Kabul Airport turned into a battleground, commercial flights stopped..
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This is outrageous…Total violation of rules… How can she do this?
#WATCH
| Telangana: BJP candidate from Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency, Madhavi Latha visits a polling booth in the constituency. Voting for the fourth phase of
#LokSabhaElections2024
is underway.
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Just In - “For 45 years there was peace, stable border management, no military casualties (with China) … That changed (in 2020). Now the state of the border (LAC) will define the state of the relationship,” External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar at
#MSC2022
.
@ThePrintIndia
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Do keep reading
@ThePrintIndia
as we bring you stories from war-torn
#Afghanistan
, of people who continue to wait for a better tomorrow and if peace truly has a chance here.
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#Breaking
: On the issue of violence in JNU Sunday night External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar stated, “When I was in JNU there was no tukde-tukde gang there.”
@ThePrintIndia
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Proud to see my wonderful fraternity members doing their bit for the victims of Delhi riots. Keep up the great job
@suhasinih
@maya206
@Smita_Sharma
& others!!
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Bilateral talks between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has begun in New York. This is taking place on the sidelines of
#UNGA
meeting. The big takeaway from this meeting is going to be an announcement on a bilateral trading arrangement.
@ThePrintIndia
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This is so tragic… Such bright children of a veteran journalist have now been silenced in the most brutal way
The son and daughter of the director and correspondent of Al Jazeera channel in Gaza Strip, Wael Al-Dahdouh, who were martyred today due to the
#Israeli
occupation bombing, had recently filmed a video in English language to reveal the truth about what is happening in Gaza Strip.
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Professional Update: I have joined
@abplive
as Foreign Affairs Editor writing on Diplomacy, Strategic Affairs and National Security. Thrilled to be part of this dynamic team. Please do follow our news reports, features, videos and podcasts.
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After much hype Prime Minister returns home from the US empty-handed ... My take in
@ThePrintIndia
:
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Thank you
@sardesairajdeep
for calling the desecration of
#Vidyasagar
statue a “national shame”.
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JUST IN: The UK today announced that it will send more than 600 pieces of medical equipment in form of COVID assistance to India. First shipment to arrive Tuesday morning.
@ThePrintIndia
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The move to export HCQ & paracetamol to the US, Brazil & other countries by India is a positive & unavoidable step. It’s not for nothing that India is regarded as the ‘pharmacy to the world’ for decades now.
I write for
@ThePrintIndia
#TalkPoint
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Absolutely shameful, disgusting and pathetic! An unruly mob hounding a girl in the name religion? Where are the teachers? Where is law and order? Is this the India we want for our coming generations?
When Muslim girl arrives at PES College, She's been heckled by several 'students' wearing
#saffronshawls
#KarnatakaHijabRow
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JUST IN: President Joe Biden just said that the US has “intentions” to share not just vaccines but also the “know-how” with India & the other countries that need them.
@ThePrintIndia
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Sharing my most read article of 2019, which not just induced widespread debate but also transcended borders. Also my gratitude to
@ThePrintIndia
that made it possible and where I completed one year today.
Wish you all a peaceful 2020!
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When people ask me about the trauma of war I may be suffering after coming back from Afghanistan, it is this that is refusing go away from the mind — This sheer human desperation where you give away your little baby to complete strangers just so that they can have a decent life
Can’t comprehend the desperation to hand over your baby to a soldier to possibly never see them again.
#Afghanistan
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Remarks made by
@POTUS
on his upcoming India visit at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland yesterday.
@ThePrintIndia
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Thank you
@asadowaisi
for reminding this country that the term ‘Quit India’ was coined by Yusuf Meherally, who was also part of the movement with Mahatma Gandhi.
#ParliamentMonsoonSession2023
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When asked by the media whether or not India has been able to get a waiver from the US in order to resume oil imports from Iran on the sidelines of an US industry event, all that oil minister
@dpradhanbjp
could say was “namaskar” before rushing out of the venue.
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This is as interesting as it gets!
Doordarshan is set to float a new channel, DD International — on the lines of BBC — which will seek to project India’s voice globally on key domestic & global issues. Reports
@AmritaNayak3
@ThePrintIndia
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With Covid cases & deaths rising in India, condition of diplomats here is also worsening by the day & there’s little support from government, they say. In fact, one diplomat has already passed away due to Covid.
I report
@ThePrintIndia
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A different kind of leader who invited media to take photos with him after a press conference, both with Brazilian and Indian media!!
Breaking security protocol Brazilian President
@LulaOficial
, who will be holding the G20 Presidency next, took a photo with me.
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Excellent interview of the brilliant
@kanhaiyakumar
by
@Nidhi
on
#freedom
,
#CAA_NRC
&
#stateofpolitics
in the country today.
#MustWatch
"A democratic person will never support violence": Kanhaiya Kumar, former JNU Students' Union President on
@LRC_NDTV
.
#CitizenshipAct
#NDTVExclusive
Follow live on and NDTV 24x7
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India and the UK have decided to sign the free trade agreement (FTA) by Diwali: PM Johnson
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From Mazar to Kabul, I saw Afghanistan fall to the Taliban in 10 days --- My Afghanistan diary
@ThePrintIndia
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Which tranche of the economic package will bring the mothers of these little children back to life? They have no idea why the commotion around them. They just want their mothers to wake up. What world is this? What have we become? If this doesn’t make us weep & think, what will?
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Reporting from war-zone Afghanistan
Watch my report from Pul-e-Bukhri area of Balkh Province where an intense fighting is going on between the Afghan forces & the Taliban. This is one of the key entry points to the Mazar-e-Sharif city.
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“India cannot be paralysed”... Prof
@kaushikcbasu
tells
@Nidhi
in an interview. Great discussion, extremely valid points!
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EXCLUSIVE: “Elections only way forward,” Ex-PM of Afghanistan Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, now part of a committee to oversee transition of power to Taliban, tells me in an interaction at his Kabul office.
#ThePrintInAfghanistan
My report
@ThePrintIndia
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On internet restrictions, the US Embassy said, “We recognize that unhindered access to information, including the internet, is fundamental to the freedom of expression and a hallmark of a thriving democracy.”
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EAM Jaishankar at
#MSC2022
: Calling Quad as an Asian NATO is a “lazy analogy”… Quad is about 4 countries who found out that no country, not even the US, today has the ability to address big global challenges all on their own.
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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sends 71 red roses to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his birthday.
@ThePrintIndia
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#JustIn
: The U.S. has to learn to work in a more multipolar world and go beyond alliances, says External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar.
@ThePrintIndia
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#EXCLUSIVE
: India has decided to turn down Pakistan's request for a bilateral meeting between their Foreign Minister
#BilawalBhuttoZardari
& EAM S Jaishankar on the margins of SCO Foreign Ministers' meeting in Goa next month — Reporting
@abplive
Post the terror attack in Poonch district of J&K in which India lost five soldiers, New Delhi has decided it will not hold bilateral talks with Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Zardari Bhutto
@NayanimaBasu
reports
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Disgusting & utterly shameful … What has gone so dangerously wrong with us???
Captain Shubham Gupta died in the line of duty in an encounter in Rajouri sector. His mortal remains are yet arrive at his residence in Agra. This is UP minister Yogendra Upadhyay, in a photo op, trying to handover cheque to the inconsolable mother of deceased Captain Gupta.
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This is huge! This IS history!
صبح امروز با امیرمحمد بنسلمان ولیعهد عربستانسعودی بمدت ۹۰ دقیقه در جده دیدار داشتیم.گفتگوی صریح، بیپرده، سودمند و نتیجهبخش، مبتنی بر سیاست همسایگی. با اراده روسای دو کشور، بر مناسبات دوجانبه پایدار در همه زمینهها تاکید شد.
در منطقه بر«امنیت و توسعه برای همه»اتفاق نظر داريم.
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Naveen was one of those lakhs of candidates who cleared NEET, but as the total intake capacity was limited, could not study medicine in India - A must-read by
@Profdilipmandal
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Just In — Australia to open a consulate in Bengaluru while India will do the same in Brisbane, announced Australian PM
@AlboMP
after a bilateral meeting with PM
@narendramodi
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“हमारे मुँह से जो निकले वही सदाक़त है
हमारे मुँह मे तुम्हारी ज़ुबान थोड़ी है...”
Happy Birthday
@rahatindori
!
Thank you for giving us this powerful poetry.
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Misery has no other language but just sheer pain and grit …
#BiharFloods2017
by
@umashankarsingh
2017 अगस्त में बिहार में बाढ़ की विभीषिका कवर करते समय इन बच्चों पर नज़र पड़ गई थी। वे नदी किनारे से मिट्टी उठा कर अपनी झोपड़ी पर लेप लगाने ले जा रहे थे।
फ़ोन की मेमेरी ख़ाली करने के लिए पीछे गया तो
#MOJO
का ये टुकड़ा मिला। शेयर किए बिना नहीं रह सका। 🙏
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EAM Jaishankar at
#MSC2022
: Our relations with ASEAN are growing well. We’ve stronger security cooperation (w/ASEAN) now.
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This is the first time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Imran Khan since he became the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
#ModiMeetsKhan
#NarendraModiMeetsImranKhan
#IndiaPakistan
#BREAKING
- Prime Minister
#NarendraModi
exchanged pleasantries with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on the sidelines of the
#SCO
Summit inside the Leaders’ Lounge at the venue in Bishkek, sources have confirmed.
@ThePrintIndia
#IndiaPakistan
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JUST IN - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has declared a day of mourning and flags will be flown at half-mast in mourning for the assassination of Hamas chief
#IsmailHaniyeh
, who was also their former Prime Minister in 2006.
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#JustIn
: Government allows supply of essential and non-essential items. Centre has also asked states to allow supply and distribution of newspapers.
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#BreakingNews
India loses a WTO dispute against EU, Japan & Taipei on imposing tariffs on certain good in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector.
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Excellent conversation between
@Nidhi
&
@EmergingRoy
on how
#CAA_NRCProtests
can have an impact on the country’s economy.
#MustWatch
.
@LRC_NDTV
| "Social unrest is bad for the economy. We have to listen to the voices of future of India": Rathin Roy, Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy on protests against
#CitizenshipAct
and
#NRC
.
Watch full show:
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#JustIn
The Canadian High Commissioner was summoned to Ministry of External Affairs today & informed that comments by the Canadian PM, some Cabinet Ministers & MPs on issues relating to Indian farmers constitute "unacceptable interference in our internal affairs".
@ThePrintIndia
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The General Council of the WTO is likely to take up the matter of waiving IP & patents rights on
#CovidVaccines
, a proposal moved by India & South Africa in 2020, during its 2-day meeting beginning today at Geneva.
My report
@ThePrintIndia
WTO meet today could take up India-South Africa proposal to wave IP rights on Covid vaccines
@NayanimaBasu
reports
#ThePrintForeignAffairs
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EAM Jaishankar at
#MSC2022
: Quad has agreed to do a vaccine project … I don’t think the Quad necessarily has identical views on all subjects, including on the TRIPS waiver (for Covid vaccines).
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Trade agreements are always tricky: PM Johnson said on the proposed India-UK FTA
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Gun-toting civilians brandish Kalashnikovs, angry policemen harass civilians and people forced to walk, leaving their cars behind, as the Afghan capital turns into a battlefield of sorts.
Reporting from Kabul
@ThePrintIndia
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Just In - On Air India’s purchase of Boeing Aircraft US President Joe Biden said the deal will support over 1 million American jobs across 44 states.
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#EXCLUSIVE
: General Electric’s plan to manufacture fighter jet engines in India, a government-to-government deal, is going to be finalised during the visit of US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin next week — My report
@abplive
#EXCLUSIVE
US, India To Finalise GE’s Fighter Jet Engine Manufacturing Deal Ahead Of PM Modi's Visit
@NayanimaBasu
reports
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And with this report I sign off from
@ThePrintIndia
- What a ride it has been this past 4 years!
Journalism has never been so exciting - All thanks to
@ShekharGupta
,
@YPRajesh
,
@RamaNewDelhi
,
@dksingh73
&
@jomalhotra
for the fabulous journey I had here.
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The
#SAARC
videoconference on combating
#COVID
ー19 begins. Prime Minister Modi initiates the conference. All SAARC leaders are present except Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan.
@ThePrintIndia
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"We are doing very well. I think very soon we will have trade deal. We will have a larger deal later on," US President Donald Trump said during a joint press conference with PM Narendra Modi post their bilateral meeting.
@ThePrintIndia
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Blast in Kerala…
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Now this and that too in the country’s capital ... Airtel suspends certain services on instruction by the government.
#CAB_NRC
#CAAProtests
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Just In: India will reach its non-fossil energy capacity to 500 GW by 2030. By 2070, India will achieve the target of net zero: PM Narendra Modi at
#COP26Glasgow
#COP26
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#BREAKING
: Japanese PM
@AbeShinzo
changes course of global diplomacy, meets
@HassanRouhani
in Tehran and says Japan will buy oil from Iran.
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“Without India you can’t deal with any major global issue, especially on climate change ... Climate change has impact on every country. India has a lot to share & teach the world on climate resilient infrastructure,” says UK High Commissioner to India Alex Ellis.
@ThePrintIndia
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Just In: Australia today said Covishield (AstraZeneca/Serum Institute of India) will be considered as one of the "recognised vaccines" for purposes of travel into that country.
@ThePrintIndia
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#JustIn
—
India reacts to UNSG’s remarks made in Islamabad today:
“J&K has been, is & will continue to be an integral part of India. Issue that needs to be addressed is that of vacation of territories illegally & forcibly occupied by Pakistan.”
@ThePrintIndia
#Kashmir
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Senior officials from the US Embassy in India Tuesday visited the Indian Navy Station operating leased MQ-9 drones. The Indian Navy has been operating General Atomics manufactured MQ-9 Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) under lease for over two years.
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Israel-Hamas War result of ‘dangerous complacency & hubris’, says Ex-NSA and Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon - Reporting
@abplive
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Just In — Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif rakes up Kashmir issue at
#UNGA
, says war is “not an option” and India & Pakistan should resolve the matter as per UN resolution.
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New Delhi's outreach towards the Democratic Party gained momentum in the last couple of months in the backdrop of the Biden camp leading over the Donald Trump camp.
My report
@ThePrintIndia
India ‘overwhelmingly’ reaches out to Democrats as Biden and Harris woo Indian Americans
@NayanimaBasu
reports
#ThePrintForeignAffairs
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India should lift restrictions from Kashmir valley soon and there should be no human rights violation, says German Ambassador to India Walter Lindner ... Read my report:
J&K is a bilateral issue, but has regional consequences: German Ambassador Walter Lindner
ThePrint's senior associate editor
@NayanimaBasu
reports:
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India and the US have the ability today to work together to save the world: Minister Jaishankar said today addressing the
#IndiaIdeasSummit
.
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#JustIn
Chinese side has been "amassing a large contingent of troops and armaments along the LAC" since early May, says Ministry of External Affairs.
@ThePrintIndia
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Always a pleasure to meet and interact with
@AmbLindnerIndia
! Interview out soon on
@ThePrintIndia
’s YouTube channel.
Photo credit:
@Surajbisht25
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Just In — “About 4,000 Indian nationals out of more than 20,000 present in Ukraine have been evacuated,” Foreign Secretary Harsh V Shringla said at a media briefing now.
@ThePrintIndia
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@pnvijay
What is your point? Is that a mark of liberty by any measure? What is Khap Panchayat then? Perhaps this is a reflection of your education.
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Just In: Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina today gifted 57 roses to Home Minister Amit Shah on his birthday.
Last month she had sent 71 roses to greet PM Narendra Modi on his birthday.
@ThePrintIndia
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#Exclusive
India-China military standoff in eastern Ladakh that completed four years this May has resulted in creation of buffer zones along LAC adversely impacting border villages like Chushul, says Councillor
@kstanzinladakh
- Reporting
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EXCLUSIVE: India likely to ship anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to the US, along with a few other countries, two days after it imposed a complete ban on the export of the drug.
#Hydroxychloroquine
#Covid_19
Read my report in
@ThePrintIndia
:
India likely to agree to Trump request for malaria drug HCQ for Covid-19 patients in US
ThePrint's
@NayanimaBasu
reports
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Xi Jinping “true VIP” at BRICS Summit
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When little one acts as a reporter and interviews mommy 🙈
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Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom irked India by tweeting that people of
#Kashmir
must have a say in their future, but made amends days later ... I report:
India-Sweden ties have seen ups and downs — Kashmir is the latest example
ThePrint's senior associate editor Nayanima Basu
@NayanimaBasu
reports
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As the
#Taliban
takes control of Mazar-e-Sharif, re-upping my video report shot in front of the Blue Mosque where they are now raising their banners. I had then said that the common man in Mazar does not see them as enemy but as their own.
@ThePrintIndia
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Government sources: Drone spotted inside Indian High Commission premises in Islamabad on Sunday. India has lodged a strong protest.
@ThePrintIndia
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Just In - Russia and China were the only countries that did not sign on to the joint communique of the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting:
@SecBlinken
at a media briefing in New Delhi.
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Now India apprises
#Canada
of its move on
#Kashmir
#Article370
as EAM Jaishankar visits Ottawa. This comes amid continued international criticism over communication clampdown in the Valley — Read my report in
@ThePrintIndia
:
India discusses Kashmir situation with Canada during S. Jaishankar visit
Senior associate editor Nayanima Basu
@NayanimaBasu
reports
#ThePrintForeignAffairs
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“China has grabbed more land than the East India Company ... They have not given development assistance to us. It was a debt trap,” says Mohamed Nasheed, Speaker of People's Majlis of The Maldives, who is visiting India presently.
@ThePrintIndia
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Yet another brilliant journalist denied permit to work in India after spending 13 long years here … What are we becoming? This is so shameful.
Sorry Sébastien!
After 13 years working as a correspondent in India, the authorities have denied me a permit to work as a journalist. I have thus been forced to leave the country.
Here is my statement.
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#JustIn
US Embassy spokesperson in New Delhi today said, “We recognize that peaceful protests are a hallmark of any thriving democracy & note that the Indian Supreme Court has stated the same.”
@ThePrintIndia
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EXCLUSIVE: New Delhi has decided that it will now allow Nepal to access two of India’s strategic ports - Mundra Port (Gujarat) & Dhamra Port (Odisha) - under the revised transit & trade treaties effective 2023 --- Reporting
@ThePrintIndia
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