India has been a "trusted partner" in Jamaica's development journey and it is ready to share expertise in a range of areas, including digital public infrastructure, biofuel, innovation and health with the Caribbean nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday. PM Modi made the remarks after holding wide-ranging talks with Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness. PM Modi added that he and Holness also discussed regional and global issues and agreed that all tensions and disputes should be resolved through talks and that both sides will continue to work towards ensuring global peace and security.
Asserting that public safety was paramount, the Supreme Court stated that any religious structure, be it temple or dargah, encroaching on roads or railway tracks must go. The top court added that India was a secular country and its directions on bulldozer action and anti-encroachment drives should be enforced irrespective of any religion.
The Congress on Tuesday slammed the Modi government over the detention of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk and several other Ladakhis, with Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi terming it as "unacceptable" and saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi would have to listen to Ladakh's voice. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said the "arrogance of the Modi government", consumed in power, has detained a group of citizens from Ladakh peacefully marching to Delhi.
Junior doctors in West Bengal restarted their indefinite "total cease work" on Tuesday to pressure the state government into addressing several demands, including guaranteeing their safety and protection across all healthcare facilities. These junior doctors had partially resumed their duties at state-run hospitals on September 21, following a 42-day demonstration. They were on a "cease work" agitation in response to the sexual assault and killing of a female doctor while on duty at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. "We do not see any positive approach from the state government to fulfil our demands for safety and security. Today is the 52nd day (of the protest) and we are still being attacked and there is no attempt to keep the other promises made during the meetings with Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee. In the given situation, we are left with no option other than opting for full cease work, starting today," Aniket Mahato, one of the agitating junior doctors, said.
NCP (SP) chief
Sharad Pawar stated that the history of Koregaon Bhima, located in Maharashtra's Pune district, is of sacrifices made by people but some communal elements are trying to wipe it out. Violence broke out a day after the Elgar Parishad conclave was organised on December 31, 2017 in Pune to commemorate the 1818 Koregaon Bhima battle in which a British army comprising Dalits defeated the Peshwas.
China is marking the 75th year of
Communist Party rule as economic challenges and security threats linger over the massive state. No festivities have been announced for the occasion on Tuesday, save for a flag-raising ceremony at Tiananmen Square. In recent decades, China has mounted military parades and displays of the country's economic might only at the turn of decades, such as for the 60th and 70th anniversaries.
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