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A team from the Archaeological Survey of India began the scientific survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi on Monday morning.                 Security personnel deployed outside the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi on Monday. On Monday morning, a team from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) started a scientific survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. People with knowledge of the situation claimed on Sunday that the survey is taking place despite the mosque management committee's petition to the Supreme Court against the district court's order permitting the inspection. The ASI crew arrived in Varanasi on Sunday with all the necessary tools. A UP Police squad can be seen entering the Gyanvapi mosque compound as the ASI assessment started in a video that news agency ANI released. There are about 40 people involved, including representatives from ASI, the management committee at the Gyanvapi mosque, four ...

Manipur violence: The BJP MLA didn't spare the Chief Minister too, saying he "is known to be hand in glove" with radical groups like Meitei Leepun and Arambai Tenggol.    The Manipur BJP MLA said he believes that PM Modi has "misplaced priorities". New Delhi:   One of the ten tribal legislators from the northeastern state of Manipur, Paolienlal Haokip of the BJP, claimed "complicity of the state" in the ethnic violence as one of the reasons why it took so long to subdue in a letter to Chief Minister N Biren Singh in May. The letter demanded a separate administration for the Kuki-dominated districts in the state. "Proof of state complicity can clearly be discerned from the fact that what started out as a purely ethnic-communal violence was later on attempted to be portrayed by the Chief Minister as the state's war on 'narco terrorists'," Mr. Haokip wrote in a newspaper article for India Today. The 10 MLAs who signed the letter in M...

When the kanwariyas reached the Dharamshala overbridge, a speeding truck hit the tractor-trolley in which they were travelling, killing one of them and injuring 12, police said.     The truck driver managed to flee the spot but was later arrested, said police. (Representational) Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh:   12 people were hurt and one kanwariya  died when a speeding truck struck the tractor-trolley they were riding in here on Sunday, according to the police. Around two in the morning on Saturday, the event happened near the Dharamshala overbridge, according to reports. Kanwariyas were gathering water from the Saryu river and heading to the Moteshwer Mahadev shrine in Pipraich. A speeding truck struck the tractor-trolley they were riding in as they approached the Dharamshala overbridge, killing one of them and injuring 12 others, according to the police. Akash Gupta (17) has been named as the deceased. According to them, the injured were taken to the district hospital,...

Two Chinese citizens were detained for trying to enter India without proper documentation at the Indo-Nepal border in the East Champaran district of Bihar . Immigration authorities believe espionage was the driving force behind their move, which is presently unclear. The two had attempted to enter the border illegally previously.                 Chinese nationals were identified as Zhao Jing and FU Cong (HT Photo/Jai Praksh) Two Chinese nationals were detained on Saturday by security officers who were attempting to cross into India from Raxaul in the East Champaran region of Bihar. Zhao Jing and FU Cong, two Chinese nationals who reside in Jiangxi, a province in the east of China, were apprehended at 8.45 p.m.  On Saturday while attempting to enter India without proper documentation, according to East Champaran Superintendent of Police (SP) Kantesh Kumar Mishra. "The motivation for their action could not be determined. Interrogation is taki...

Pakistan spoils relations with the countries and institutions where its interests are connected, he said.               ( Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan(Reuters) After US senators sent a generic letter to the Pakistani government addressing the country's human rights situation, Shahid Ahmed Khan, US President Joe Biden's advisor on the arts, asserted that the US had no involvement in Pakistan's internal affairs. He added that the letter was not addressed to Imran Khan and that it was instead about Pakistan, noting that the previous prime minister's "cypher drama" had made the nation a laughing joke around the world. Due to its relationship with China, Pakistan continues to be an important country for the US and is not disregarded by Washington, he said. If the letter from the American senators had been that significant, Pakistan would not have gotten help from the IMF. Shahid Ahmed Khan kept talking. He claimed that Pakistan ruins relationsh...

Delhi floods: The update also warned that it is expected for the river to breach 206m by 4pm on Sunday. Delhi government has been on high alert due to the discharge of over 2 lakh cusecs of water from the barrage(ANI). A flood-like crisis is once more looming over Delhi after the Yamuna river level in the capital once more broke the 206-meter evacuation mark, with the top level reaching 206.01m at 10am on Sunday in the Delhi Railway Bridge, according to the Central Water Commission. #Yamuna flood updated Yamuna flowing in severe situation in Delhi Breached evacuation mark - 206metre- at 10am, has a rising trend 206.01m at 10am, 0.68m above Danger Level #DelhiFlood #Dangerous #AAP #Evacuation #SevereWeather #DelhiFloodUpdate #updated #blogger #Modi pic.twitter.com/frR4IAIRkm — Updated News (@updatednewsfast) July 23, 2023 The bulletin also stated that by 4 p.m. on Sunday, the river is predicted to break 206.7 meters, the threshold at which residents are required to leave low...

The Saudi Arabian and UAE NSAs are special invitees at the BRCIS NSA meeting.                 Ajit Doval with Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi   Alongside the BRICS NSA conference in Johannesburg on Monday, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval will have meetings with senior Chinese official Yang Jiechi and Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Russian Security Council, among others. Special invitees including UAE National Security Advisor Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Saudi Arabia National Security Advisor Musaad bin Mohammed Al Aiban will attend the NSA level meeting, which will take place in the lead-up to the summit on August 22–24.Global concerns such the conflict in the Ukraine, the Indo-Pacific, religious radicalism, and terrorism are on the agenda of the BRICS NSA summit. Sources claim that NSA Doval will meet with his counterparts both bilaterally and under the BRICS umbrella. In this context, discussions between him and Yang Jiechi, the ...