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New Delhi, September 19 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Tuesday successfully placed the Aditya L1 spacecraft outside earth’s gravitational sphere of influence and on a trajectory that will take it to the Sun-Earth L1 point. The spacecraft, India’s first space-based solar observatory, will be injected into an orbit around L1 (Lagrange Point 1) through a manoeuvre after about …

Washington, September 18 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday said Canada was “actively pursuing credible allegations” linking Indian government agents to the murder of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia in June. Here is what is known about the probe into the Canadian citizen’s murder *On the evening of June 18, Canada’s Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) …

New Delhi, September 19 A new chill entered India’s already-frosty ties with Ottawa after the Foreign Office here summoned the Canadian High Commissioner on Tuesday and expelled a senior diplomat in retaliation after Canada asked an Indian diplomat to leave the country and its Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alleged that the Indian Government may have had links to the killing …

Ottawa, September 18 Canada said on Monday it had credible information linking Indian government agents to the murder of a Sikh leader in British Columbia in June and said it had expelled a senior Indian intelligence official. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said any involvement of a foreign government in the killing of a Canadian citizen was “an unacceptable violation of …

oronto, September 19 Canada expelled a top Indian diplomat on Monday as it investigates what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called credible allegations that India’s government may have had links to the assassination in Canada of a Sikh activist. Trudeau said in Parliament that Canadian intelligence agencies had been looking into the allegations after Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a strong …

Laura Barajas got the infection from undercooked tilapia fish. A tragic incident has unfolded in California, where a woman has lost all four of her limbs. This devastating outcome is the result of her contracting a bacterial infection, reportedly stemming from the consumption of undercooked tilapia fish that had been contaminated with a lethal strain of bacteria, according to accounts …

  Following the row over his remarks on the H-1B visa programme, Indian-American US presidential aspirant Vivek Ramaswamy has said he understands what he wants to reform and stressed that the H-1B programme was “senseless”. In an interview with Politico, Ramaswamy termed the H-1B visa programme “indentured servitude” and said he would “gut” the lottery-based system and replace it with …

At least 20 people – mostly mine workers – were killed in South Africa’s Limpopo province on Sunday after a bus they were traveling in erupted in flames following a head-on collision with a truck, state media reported. The Limpopo transport department said on Monday 20 people were confirmed dead on the scene while two others died at the hospital. It is …

Kyiv, September 18 Six Ukrainian deputy defence ministers were fired Monday following the dismissal two weeks ago of Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov in a corruption scandal, officials said, as heavy fighting continued in the east. Deputy defense ministers including Hanna Maliar, Vitalii Deyneha and Denys Sharapov, as well as the state secretary of the Ministry of Defence, Kostiantyn Vashchenko, were …

The negotiations for a free trade agreement between India and Canada have been stalled, sources said on Friday. The sources cited “certain political developments” in Canada as the reason for the pause in the negotiations, and added talks will resume once issues are settled between both the governments. There were reports earlier that the two countries could reach an interim …