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‘Erdogan’s support for a boycott of French goods a setback’. Representative image President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s support for a boycott of French goods is a further setback to Turkey’s already stalled bid to join the EU, the European Commission said on Tuesday. “Calls for boycott of products of any member state are contrary to the spirit of these obligations and will take Turkey even further away from the European Union,” a spokesman said. Accession talks Turkey applied to join the then European Economic Community in 1987 and began formal accession negotiations to the European Union in 2005, but the talks are seen as effectively frozen. Protests erupted in several mainly-Muslim countries after President Emmanuel Macron defended a cartoonist’s right to caricature religious leaders in the wake of a French teacher’s murder. History teacher Samuel Paty was killed in the street on October 16 after a social media campaign criticised him for showing students cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed ...

KEY POINTS The United States and India reaffirmed their defense and security partnership by signing an agreement that would allow New Delhi to access U.S. satellite data crucial for targeting missiles and other military assets. U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, along with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, was in India to meet Singh and India’s foreign minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, for the U.S.-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue. The U.S.-India partnership is more important than ever for regional security and stability “particularly in light of increasing aggression and destabilizing activities by China,” according to Esper. Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh welcomes US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper to a Tri-Services Guard of Honour at South Block Lawns on October 26, 2020 in New Delhi, India. The United States and India reaffirmed their defense and security partnership on Tuesday and signed an agreement allowing New Delhi to access U.S. satellite data crucial for targeting mis...

U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo raises security threat from China after 2+2 talks. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a press briefing at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on October 27, 2020. | Photo Credit: PTI The United States will support India to defend its territorial sovereignty and liberty, U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said on Tuesday. Addressing the media at the end of the 3rd India-US 2+2 dialogue in New Delhi, Mr. Pompeo also said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is “no friend to democracy”. The observations about the threats to Indian sovereignty came as New Delhi announced the signing of the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement on geospatial cooperation (BECA) with the U.S. “The United States will stand with the people of India as they face threats to their sovereignty and their liberty,” said Mr. Pompeo hinting at the ongoing tense scenario in eastern Ladakh where Indian and Chinese forces in a standoff si...

Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat and Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane paid tributes at the National War Memorial on Infantry Day on Tuesday. Representative Image Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat and Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane paid tributes at the National War Memorial on Infantry Day on Tuesday. #WATCH | Delhi: Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane pay tribute at National War Memorial on Infantry Day. pic.twitter.com/XfGvGURv2Q — ANI (@ANI) October 27, 2020 Infantry Day is observed as a remembrance of the first military event of independent India, when the Indian Army repelled the first attack on the Indian soil on October 27, 1947, in the Kashmir Valley. The victory was accomplished by the personnel of the First Battalion of the Sikh Regiment.    Source

A notification says the government may on written request of an Army officer not below the rank of Corp Commander declare an area as Strategic Area within a local area. Representative image The Centre has notified new laws, including fresh land laws, for the Union Territories (UTs) of J&K and Ladakh and omitted any precondition on purchase of land in J&K, as existed under Article 370 for the outsiders. Under the newly introduced J&K Development Act (XIX of 1970) , it notified that “omit, being permanent resident of the State”. In a fresh notification, Section 30 of and Part VII of the State Land Acquisition Act , Samvat 1990 was substituted by the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (30 of 2013) . Introducing the J&K Agrarian Reforms Act, the Jammu and Kashmir Forest Act, 1987 was also substituted by the Indian Forest Act, 1927 (16 of 1927). The Centre also completely repealed the J&K Alienation...

AFCAT Result 2020 - Replying to the uproar over the results declared on Oct 21, IAF has issued an official statement assuring candidates that the results have been rechecked and no discrepancy has been found. Representative Image Indian Air Force, IAF has reposnded to the alleged errors in the results and the requests of students calling out the results. Taking to the social media handle, IAF has confirmed that there is no error in the calculation of the results and that they have not found any discrepancy in the results released for IAF common Admission Test or AFCAT 2020. IAF - CDAC had declared the results for the AFCAT 02 / 2020 examination on October 21, 2020. Soon after the declaration of the result, many students reached out to IAF, complaining about erroneous results and demanding the release of the answer keys. The students also alleged that there was ‘gross miscalculations’ and that their results were not tallying the marks they had expected. Putting a rest to all the said...

Voters overwhelmingly approved a bid to scrap the charter inherited from Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, a move that could set a new course for the country. Voters in Santiago, Chile, cast ballots in a  constitutional referendum on Sunday.Credit...Martin Bernetti/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The protests started over a small hike in metro fares, then exploded into a broad reckoning over inequality that shook Chile for weeks. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets, calling for sweeping change in their society, with higher wages and pensions, better health care and education. The movement soon seized on a vehicle for their demands: Chile’s Constitution. The existing charter, drafted without popular input during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and approved in a fraudulent plebiscite in 1980, was widely blamed for blocking change — and seen as a lingering link to a grim chapter in Chile’s history. On Sunday, just over a year af...