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Suhag took charge of the 1.3 million strong force, succeeding Gen Bikram Singh in the national capital. 59-year-old Suhag, a Gurkha officer who had participated in the 1987 Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) operation in Sri Lanka, was till now the Vice Chief of Army Staff.
"It's a great moment for all of us. We are all so proud of him," Gen Suhag's relative, Pradeep Suhag said. He said that 'ladoos' were distributed as celebrations broke out in the village in Jhajjar district.
Pic: Army chief Gen Suhag with his wife.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) members have to adopt the protocol on the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) tonight.
India has made it clear at the WTO General Council meeting last week in Geneva that it would not ratify the TFA until a permanent solution is found on food security issues.
Pritzker had yesterday said the US is "very disappointed that India has taken a step back from its agreements that it made in December (last) at the WTO.
Sitharaman, however, said that the WTO's Bali issues were not discussed during the meeting with Pritzker. Meanwhile Commerce Secretary Rajeev Kher said India has suggested "a way of action" to break the impasse.
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Nasreen had taken refuge in Kolkata in 2004, after a long stay in Europe. But after Muslim protests in the city in November 2007, the government forced her to leave West Bengal. She was then forced to leave India after staying in a safe house for a few months.
It is only in 2011 that she got permission to live in Delhi. Busy writing essays and poems, Nasreen is also planning to bring out a sequel of her controversial book 'Lajja' in Bengali. The sequel has already been published in Malyalam.
International fallout from the crisis tearing apart the ex-Soviet nation rumbled on as the Group of Seven major developed economies warned Moscow that it could face even tougher sanctions over its backing for the insurgents, despite the EU and US already hitting Russia with the most punitive measures since the Cold War.
Dutch and Australian police experts were trying for the fifth day running to access the crash site of the downed Malaysian airliner after clashes between government and insurgent forces thwarted previous attempts to reach the scene.
During the meeting, Foreign Minister Mahendra Pandey briefed the leaders of different political parties, which have representation in the Constituent Assembly, about the preparations of the upcoming two-day visit of Modi, Prime Minister's Foreign Affairs Advisor Dinesh Bhattarai said.
Koirala is having hectic consultations with top leaders, senior government officials and his own party colleagues despite his fragile health condition, said Bhattarai.
The Prime Minister has instructed all concerned to cooperate for making the visit from Sunday a grand success.
See our slideshow on the rescue operations at Malin village near Pune, where 30 people have been killed in a landslide
Dr Singh said trashed Natwar Singh's claims that key files were sent to her official residence 10 Janpath for approval. He categorically said today that "No files were sent to 10 Janpath."
He added that "some conversations that take place should not be used for capital."
Natwar Singh has backed former Manmohan Singh's former media advisor Sanjaya Baru's allegations that key files were sent to Sonia Gandhi's official residence 10 Janpath for approval.
Baru in his book 'The Accidental Prime Minister' had claimed that Sonia Gandhi was the super prime minister during the UPA-I regime and Manmohan Singh had been reduced to being an object of ridicule.
Meanwhile, a fresh alert of "very heavy rainfall" in the city during the next 48 hours has been issued by the India Meteorological Department's regional centre.
Talking to reporters before demitting office, he admitted that face-offs between Indian and Chinese Army soldiers take place while patrolling their 'claimed areas' along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) but they are dealt with in accordance with the existing mechanisms.
Asked if India had given a befitting reply after the January 8, 2013 beheading incident, he said, "It has been done. Please understand that when we use force, that use is from tactical to operational to strategic levels.
"When I mention that during that incident, it was aimed at operations at the tactical level, which have been undertaken. I think this has been done by the local commander, the chiefs have nothing to do with it," Gen Singh said.
Twenty people were reportedly killed after a shell hit the UNRWA school in Jabalia, Gaza, where 3,300 people had been taking refuge.
Chris Gunness, a spokesman for the UNRWA, was unable to check himself while giving an interview to Al Jazeera Arabic the same day. "The rights of Palestinians, even their children, are wholesale denied,' he official said before breaking down sobbing in front of the camera.
Sonia broke her silence on ex-Congress leader, , former external affairs minister and family friend K Natwar's Singh's book, One Life is Not Enough: An Autobiography, and said she would write her own book one day, and everything would be clear. "When I write a book, the truth will be exposed," Sonia said today.
In his book, Natwar Singh says Sonia declined to become Prime Minister in 2004 because of strong opposition from her son Rahul Gandhi who was afraid she would be killed like his father and grandmother if she accepted the post.
To persuade him from not referring to this particular episode in his autobiography, the Congress president along with her daughter Priyanka Gandhi met him on May 7 at his residence but he decided to disclose facts as they were and tell the "truth", Singh claimed in an interview to Karan Thapar on Headlines Today. The book will be released in August.
File pic of Sonia Gandhi with Natwar Singh.
Hrithik and Sussanne, who had called off their marriage in December 2013, filed for divorce in a family court here earlier this year. The couple has two children Hrehaan and Hridhaan.
In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today Naik said, Public Order and Police are State subjects as per the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India. As such, prevention of crime, including crimes against tourists is the primary responsibility of the State Governments/Union Territory Administrations.
He said, in order to ensure safety and security of tourists, including foreign tourists, Ministry of Tourism has advised all the State Governments/Union Territory Administrations to deploy Tourist Police in the States/Union Territories.
By May, Seema, now pregnant, was in a court-mandated shelter home for young women visited only by Sameer when he got bail, accused of kidnapping and raping his young love.
The content of 600 court judgements analysed by The Hindu and interviews with complainants, judges and police officers illuminate for this first time the real stories behind the headlines on the national capitals rape statistics.
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The secretary of state will co-chair the 5th India-US strategic dialogue with external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday.
The two sides are keen to lock in "transformative initiatives' to make Modi's visit result-oriented in spheres of energy, skill-development, defence and security.
India will also take up the issue of NSA snooping with Kerry. India's position that the trade facilitation agreement (TFA) at the World Trade Organisation -- be put on hold until a permanent solution on public stockholding for food security is found has riled the west, including the US.
Kerry arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday to narrow the differences on various issues ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US in September.
Battala "lost" its name because Trinamool MP Tapas Paul stood on a plastic chair under a young banyan tree, delivered the "rape-and-shoot" speech and achieved national "fame'.
Battala is now known as Tapastala -- a rare honour that not many public figures other than Nelson Mandela have been accorded during their lifetime.
In New Delhi, Nelson Mandela Marg was named so when the anti-apartheid legend was alive. History has repeated itself -- as farce and by default. Read the full report here
around 60 persons died. SC asks UP govt to pay an interim compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the family members of the deceased, Rs 2 lakh to the
seriously injured. SC asks the commission to submit its report by January
31, 2015.
It will take more than a meeting of two leaders to reverse the damage of the past year in India-U.S. ties '" the hurt needs to be addressed as well It has been a challenging month for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who has been charged with nuclear negotiations with Iran, dispatched to the Middle East to try and broker a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza, and tasked with leading a campaign to sanction Russia further for the conflict in Ukraine.
Compared to those missions, his 48-hour visit to India should have been a snap, but both circumstances and a lack of diplomatic headway so far will mean that Mr. Kerry will have his work cut out for him as he begins his meetings this morning.
Once a rebel stronghold, CNN's Matthew Chance finds Ukraine's Slovyansk riven by mistrust and its police taking lie detector tests to gauge their loyalty to Kiev.
G7 leaders say Russia will face further economic sanctions if it continues to support rebels in Ukraine. The group of leading industrialised nations said Russia had undermined "Ukraine's sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence."
The warning came after the EU added eight more Russians to its sanctions. Earlier, Russia described new US and EU sanctions as "destructive and short-sighted", and said they would lead to higher energy prices in Europe. The G7 group of economic powers includes the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada.
Its leaders said Russia could still "choose the path of de-escalation", but warned President Vladimir Putin that he would face greater economic costs if he continued to back Ukrainian separatists.
They also called on all sides to establish a ceasefire at the crash site of the Malaysian Airlines jet that was shot down on 17 July in eastern Ukraine.
The US House of Representatives is set to pass legislation authorising it to sue President Barack Obama for what Republican leaders describe as his overreach of authority.
The resolution is expected to pass the Republican-controlled chamber in a party line vote on Wednesday. Its sponsors say Mr Obama exceeded his powers when he delayed an insurance deadline in his healthcare law. The president's aides say the prospective suit is a political stunt.
At least 17 Palestinians have been killed and 200 wounded in the bombardment of a market area near Gaza City during a "humanitarian pause" unilaterally announced by Israel.
The attack came on the outskirts of Shujayea shortly after the Israeli army said it was observing a four-hour Wednesday ceasefire from midday GMT, or 3pm local time. Al Jazeera understand that at least three air strikes or artillery rounds hit the area, which is a collection of warehouses, market area and stalls.
International investigators' quest to carry out their duties at the crash site of the downed Malaysian airliner hit another roadblock Wednesday, as Ukrainian officials warned of possible land mines near the site.
Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council claims that "terrorists" -- the term it uses to describe rebels -- have set up firing positions and laid mines on the access road to the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
The Ukrainian government and pro-Russian rebels are fighting over control of eastern Ukraine. Dutch investigators in Ukraine did not mention mines but announced Wednesday that unsafe conditions kept their contingent from visiting the crash site for the fourth straight day.
CNN could not independently confirm the veracity of the statement by the Ukrainian officials, though CNN's Nick Paton Walsh traveled to and from the debris field safely Wednesday.
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