NO PROBLEM IN DEPLOYING CRPF AT VIZHINJAM SITE, KERALA TELLS HC

be interrogated and there may be more revelations...goldy Brar will be very soon in the custody of Punjab police,” Mann said.

Moosewala’s father welcomed the news of the detention of Brar.

In Mansa, Moosewala’s father Balkaur Singh said he was yet to get any official information about the development.

“If it is so, I welcome it,” Singh said.

Singh on Thursday called upon the Union government to announce a reward of ₹2 crore for any information leading to the arrest of Canada-based gangster Brar. He even offered to pay for the reward from his own pocket.

According to a 1,850-page charge sheet filed in the Moosewala murder case, Brar is the mastermind in the killing. Brar gave the news of the withdrawal of security of Moosewala to shooters on May 28 and asked them to kill the singer on May 29, as per the charge sheet. Moosewala was among the 424 people whose security was scaled down by the Punjab Police.

The Canada-based gangster could soon be handed over by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to Indian law enforcement agencies, an official told news agency ANI.

The official said that Brar was being monitored by FBI, with the agency tracking him after he illegally entered the US from Canada.

Indian agencies tipped off the FBI about Brar’s movements and the Americans put him under surveillance immediately, the official said.

however, capture the scale of the pain that Bhopal would go on to suffer for the next four decades. Within a few days, trees wilted, a sign of poison having entered the groundwater. People had to be resettled, losing land, property and business in the blink of an eye. Entire localities were unfit to live, leading to years of litigation, fields and water bodies declared toxic to this day. Then there were the children. Not just those that died on December 3, but those that were born to affected families in the generations that followed; born with congenital health defects. A lasting reminder of December 3, 1984.

ship capacity in a very complex world and at a time when all countries are grappling with challenges in areas such as climate change, health and education.

However, she said the crisis triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine is not solely a European problem as the conflict has implications for food and energy security around the world. In the context of the conflict, both the US and India support a rules-based international order even though the policies adopted by the two countries “aren’t necessarily always the same”, she added.

Asked if the US side would be prepared to “be in the same room as the Russians” during India’s G20 presidency in view of the deep divisions between the two sides over the Ukraine war, Jones replied: “Yeah, my colleagues see them [Russians] regularly in various meetings. There isn’t a big effort to have meetings but also the G20 isn’t focused on solving the [Ukraine] war either.

“That’s not the goal of the G20. We shouldn’t look to that to be some kind of a magic forum for suddenly there [being] a discussion about peace in Ukraine. That I firmly believe will be done quite separately.”

The Ukraine crisis is being seen as one of the key challenges for India’s G20 presidency, which began on December 1, especially after the crisis almost held up a joint communique at the Bali summit.

Diplomatic manoeuvring by India and Indonesia helped finalise a joint statement at the last minute though the document stated that the G20 members remained divided in their approach to the conflict. India’s approach – that today’s era is not of war – found mention in the communique.

Jones said the G20 returned to its core – economic issues – in the Bali summit after intensive discussions on Russia. “There was clear willingness on the part of all participants to get back to the core elements of the G20 and...we understand from our Indian colleagues that India intends during its G20 presidency to really dive into the many issues that are involved in international economics, business [and] all the things that affect people’s lives,” she said.

One of the things the US and India agree on supporting a rules-based international order. “One of the hallmarks of the [India-us] relationship...is that we’re able to have discussions about issues on which we fundamentally agree but in which the policies to get there aren’t necessarily always the same,” she added.

Jones, who worked on the last extension of NATO, said she didn’t share the perception that the Ukraine conflict is a European war. The war Russia is waging on Ukraine has affected food security, with wheat shipments stuck in Ukraine, and energy security, she said. The G7’s planned price cap for Russian crude is aimed at reducing “as much as possible the revenues that Russia earns from its oil sales so that it can’t use those revenues to increase its capacity to wage war in Ukraine”, Jones said.

“It seems to us that it’s appropriate for countries to take that into account in terms of the oil purchases that they make, but that’s a sovereign decision,” she said.

While Russia “complains about NATO and its activities”, Moscow’s actions have only made NATO stronger, and the “threat of food insecurity is a serious problem for many countries”, she added.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala government on Friday informed the high court that it has no objection to deploying central forces at south Kerala’s Vizhinjam, where a port project of the Adani Group remains stalled for almost four months amid intense protest by local fishermen and the Latin Catholic church.

The state made the submission before a single bench of justice Anu Sivraman who subsequently directed the state government and Centre to discuss the deployment of the forces and submit the details by Wednesday. The court was hearing a contempt plea by the Adani Group against the state for its alleged failure to comply with an earlier court directive to provide protection to resume work.

The plea came days after protesters on Sunday vandalised Vizhinjam police station, prompting police to resort to lathi charge and tear gas to disperse the mob. At least 36 police personnel and 30 protesters were injured in the violence that ensued.

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