According to President Hassan Rouhani, Iran will continue to produce missiles for its defence and does not consider that it is a violation of international accords.
Rouhani spoke days after the US House of Representatives voted for new sanctions on Iran`s ballistic missile programme, part of an effort to clamp down on Tehran without immediately moving to undermine an international nuclear agreement.
Reports of Sonic Attacks Totally False
Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez has branded as totally false the alleged sonic attacks that affected at least 24 US diplomats in the country and denounced the claim as political manipulation meant to damage relations between both nations.
The level of emissions from fireworks fell by around 40 per cent during Diwali festivities this time as compared to 2016.
The SAFAR (a central government air quality monitoring agency) study concluded that, as a whole, the Diwali period (October 18-22) was the cleanest since 2014. Level of particulates did shoot up a day after Diwali, but the dispersion was quicker and air quality attained the pre-Diwali level within three days.
Kidambi Srikanth created history as he became the first Indian player to win four Superseries titles in a year after he won the men's singles title at the French Open.
He defeated Japan's Kenta Nishimoto.
He also became the only Indian to win the French Open since it became a Superseries event in 2007.
As per reports, Union Minister of State for Tourism K. J. Alphons will be the BJP candidate for the Rajya Sabha byelection in Rajasthan.
The Rajya Sabha seat was vacated by former Union Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu when he became the Vice-President.
Alphons joined the BJP in 2011 and is a member of the party’s national executive.
BRO Opens another Bridge
Continuing its development work in the strategic Ladakh region, Project Himank of the BRO dedicated another bridge to the people of the cold desert, the third such bridge in a month, for efficient connectivity to China border.
The chief engineer of Project Himank, Brigadier D M Purvimath, inaugurated the 30-metre heavy bridge over the Linche River on Leh-Loma road.
The Leh-Loma road is the main connectivity to various link roads along the Line of Actual Control.
Farooq Abdullah Re-elected as President
National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah was today re-elected as the President of the oldest party in Jammu and Kashmir at a delegates' session which was held after a gap of 15 years.
He was first appointed as the party president in 1981 and had continued to hold the post, except from 2002 to 2009.
In 2002, in a similar function held at the same venue, Farooq Abdullah had passed the baton to his son, Omar Abdullah, who was then a Minister of State for External Affairs in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government.
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