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Goyal urges steelmakers to become self-reliant, learn from rare earth crisis

New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- Union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Monday warned India's biggest steelmakers against over-reliance on imports of metallurgical coke (met coke)-a key raw materia... Read More


Nepal protest: Gen Z crackdown flares up again over social media ban, two ministers resign; 19 dead in violence

New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- Tension continues to grip Nepal as fresh protests erupted on the streets again on Tuesday morning, a day after the Nepal government revoked a ban on social media. Since Monday, t... Read More


SPECIAL REPORT: Nigeria's National Assembly yet to update its website in over one year

Nigeria, Sept. 9 -- "Plenary Proceedings of the House of Representatives for Wednesday, 20th March, 2024." That is the title of the most recent article on the website of the National Assembly, Nigeria... Read More


Police open fire on protests of Nepal's social media policy, killing at least 17

New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- Police in Nepal's capital of Kathmandu opened fire Monday on demonstrators protesting a government attempt to regulate social media that blocked some of the world's largest platf... Read More


Nepal protest: Gen Z crackdown flares up again over social media ban, three ministers resign; 19 dead in violence

New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- Tension continues to grip Nepal as fresh protests erupted on the streets again on Tuesday morning, a day after the Nepal government revoked a ban on social media. Since Monday, t... Read More


Assam cabinet clears new SOPs to push out illegal immigrants, bypass tribunals

India, Sept. 9 -- Assam will give people suspected of being illegal immigrants 10 days to prove their Indian citizenship and send them to detention camps pending push back to Bangladesh if they fail t... Read More


PM Modi casts his vote in Vice-Presidential election

New Delhi/IBNS, Sept. 9 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi cast his vote in the Vice-Presidential election at the Parliament House on Tuesday. Modi was the first one to cast a vote in the election. The... Read More


"Situation is one of anarchy": Former Indian diplomat Sukh Deo Mani on Nepal protests

New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- Former Indian diplomat Sukh Deo Mani on Tuesday said that Nepal's situation is "one of anarchy" as the nation reels under violent protests against the government. Speaking with ... Read More


Maharashtra govt issues travel advisory for citizens amid violent protest in Nepal, asks to avoid travel

Mumbai, Sept. 9 -- In view of the ongoing violent protest in Nepal, the Maharashtra State Emergency Operations Centre on Tuesday issued an advisory, urging citizens to avoid travel to the neighbouring... Read More


Punjab MP Amritpal Singh casts vote from Assam jail in vice-presidential election

Guwahati, Sept. 9 -- Amritpal Singh, the Khadoor Sahib MP currently lodged in Assam's Dibrugarh Central Jail under preventive detention, exercised his voting right in the 2025 vice-presidential electi... Read More