The resignation of Pratap Bhanu Mehta from India's premier private university has rung alarm bells among scholars abroad. 'The university must be a home for fearless inquiry and criticism,' a statement endorsed by over a hundred leading academics on Friday says.
Two police officers reportedly claimed that they heard Enforcement Directorate officials forcing Suresh, key accused in a gold smuggling case, to name chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
It has also estimated that the number of poor people, with incomes of $2 or less each day, has gone up by 75 million as the recession brought by the virus undid years of progress.
Lloyd J. Austin will be meeting Rajnath Singh, S. Jaishankar and Ajit Doval during his three-day visit to India starting Friday.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Afghan government and the Taliban agreed on Friday to try to accelerate peace talks, at a meeting in Moscow that followed an international conference there on the peace process, Afghanistan's top peace official and a Taliban spokesman said.