Ø India is keen to be included in the
Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement and it will welcome Afghan trucks
on the Wagah-Attari border with Pakistan, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi as
he addressed a joint press gathering along with visiting Afghanistan President
Ashraf Ghani.
Ø Mangala Devi Kannagi Temple can be renovated
but a sketch or portrait of the original temple is required to restore it to
its original shape, according to G. Premnath, Director, Department of
Archaeology, Kerala.
Ø With PM Modi as the head, the Nehru Memorial
Museum Library Society has been reconstituted to have 34 members, including
Arun Jaitley, and eight new members to the Executive Council.
Ø Raja Rajeswari, the first India-born woman to
be appointed as a judge in New York City, was sworn in by Mayor Bill de Blasio
in New York.
Ø Nepal on Tuesday said India has led the relief
and rescue operations being carried out in the quake-hit nation and was the
first to rush aid to the people. Nepal’s Ambassador to India Deepak
Kumar Upadhyay said there has been “unbelievable support and assistance” from
India and the assurance of help from the Indian government has been like a
“blank cheque.”
Ø A part of India slid one foot to 10 feet
northwards and underneath Nepal in a matter of seconds during the magnitude 7.9
earthquake that hit the Himalayan country on Saturday, a U.S. scientist has
said. Saturday’s slip took place over an area about 1,000 to 2,000
square miles over a zone spanning the cities of Kathmandu and Pokhara in one
direction, and almost the entire Himalaya mountain width in the other.
Ø Operation Maitri, India’s Army-led rescue and
relief mission in quake-hit Nepal, would continue till normalcy returned to the
Himalayan country. The Indian rescue mission succeeded in evacuating 170
foreign nationals belonging to the U.S., the U.K., Russia and Germany. So
far, over 5,000 Indians have been brought back from Nepal by Air Force and
civilian planes.
Ø Pakistan on Tuesday carried out its 100th
execution since lifting a moratorium on the death penalty last December, in
what rights group Amnesty International described as a “shameful milestone”.
Munir Hussain, who was convicted of a double murder in 2000, was hanged in the
town of Vehari in Punjab province, said Syed Babar Ali Shah, superintendent of
Vehari jail.
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