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Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday robustly defended the jailing of two Reuters journalists – Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28 – who were reporting on the Rohingya crisis, as she hit back at global criticism of a trial widely seen as an attempt to muzzle the free press. She acknowledged that the brutal crackdown on the Muslim minority could have been “handled better”, but insisted the two reporters had been treated fairly. “They were not jailed because they were journalists” but because “the court has decided that they had broken the Official Secrets Act,” she said. PTI
India has not been able to secure membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) because of China’s veto, a senior Trump administration official said on Thursday, asserting that the United States will continue to advocate for New Delhi’s membership in the elite grouping as it meets all the criteria.
India has been seeking entry into the 48-member elite nuclear club, which controls nuclear trade, but China has repeatedly stonewalled its bid.
While India, which is backed by the US and a number of western countries, has garnered the support of a majority of the group’s members, China has stuck to its stand that new members should sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), making India’s entry difficult as the group is guided by the consensus principle. India is not a signatory to the NPT.
“Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) is a consensus-based organisation. India has not been able
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A team of functionaries from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) will soon turn up at the offices of Congress president Rahul Gandhi and other Opposition leaders with an invitation to attend the upcoming three-day lecture series by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, in an attempt to clear the air about the Sangh, which Gandhi recently compared to the Muslim Brotherhood.
According to Sangh functionaries aware of the developments, and who asked not to be identified, the RSS will send its functionaries to “personally deliver” the invitation to leaders of Opposition to secure membership as a result of opposition from China,” Alice Wells, the principal deputy assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, told a Washington audience.
“We have deemed that we’re not going to limit our own cooperation with India based on a Chinese veto. Of course, we moved ahead with an STA One authorisation and we certainly believe that India meets all of the qualifications of the Nuclear Suppliers Group and will continue to actively advocate on behalf of India’s membership,” Wells said in response to a question. She said by granting Strategic Trade Authorisation (STA-1) status, the US has placed India in the inner circle of America’s closest allies.
“It reflects just the intimacy of the strategic partnership,” she said in response to a question at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a top American think-tank. old allies, are not keen on shelving the purchase. Officials in New Delhi and Washington confirmed that Doval would be meeting his counterpart John Bolton, who, along with the US State Department, has still not decided on India getting a waiver in the Russian missile deal. However, there is another view in both the Pentagon and Foggy Bottom that a major defence partner of the US like India should not be penalised, especially because New
About an hour before the Congress’s press conference on Thursday, the BJP alleged the UPA government gave “sweet deals” to Mallya. The party claimed that the Gandhi family “partially owned the now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines through proxy”.
“There are documents that show how the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) under Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh had given sweet deals to Kingfisher Airlines,” BJP leader Sambit Patra told the media.
Later, Union minister Piyush Goyal too attacked Gandhi and asked him to resign as Congress president.
“Rahul Gandhi should answer what were the relations between his family and Mallya,” Goyal said. At an all-party meet convened by the National Conference (NC) in Srinagar, Omar Abdullah said all
J&K leaders will approach the Centre and the Supreme Court to defer the hearing on Article 35A till assembly elections are held.