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Indian intelligence agencies have learnt that the wife of incarcerated senior Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik, Mushaal Mullick had also asked the international community to boycott the G20 meeting in Kashmir.

A report by the intelligence agencies has revealed that Pakistan-based terrorist outfits, ISI, and their agents in India have been pressed into action to defame the country on international platforms and disrupt the G20 meeting in Jammu and Kashmir.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Monday conferred with the Companion of the order of Logohu by Papua New Guinea, the nation's highest civilian award for championing the cause of unity of Pacific Island countries and spearheading the cause of Global South.

At least four people were dead and about two dozen others feared missing after a boat carrying some 40 persons capsized in the Tamsa River in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district on Monday.

The accused constable, Aman Kumar also reached there and shot at her. The bullet hit the left shoulder from behind and exited from the right side of the chest. The accused himself tried to shoot himself as well but failed.

Largest number of G20 delegates have registered for the three-day working group's meeting in J&K's Srinagar city although some countries are not coming for logistic reasons, the Union tourism secretary, Arvind Singh told reporters.

Roads lined up with G20 logos, smart city messages, painted sidewalks and freshly macadamised roads marked the road from Srinagar international airport to Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention (SKICC) Centre, the venue of G20 meeting in Srinagar city.

Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has said he is ready to undergo a narco test or a lie-detector test, amid allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him.

Manipur's Commissioner, Home, H. Gyan Prakash, in a notification extending the suspension of internet services till May 26, said that the Director General of Police, Manipur, reported that there are still reports of incidents like arson of houses and premises.

Karnataka's opposition JD-S on Sunday blasted the Bengaluru civic agency over the death of 22-year-old Infosys staffer, who fell sick after her car got stuck in an underpass inundated with water and succumbed in a hospital later.

More worryingly, cracks are surfacing within the old-time BJP families as the brother of Pradeep Lariya - the three-time BJP MLA from Naryawali-SC seat of Sagar district joined the Congress along with hundreds of his supporters.

Ghosh is currently in judicial custody at Presidency Central Correctional Home in south Kolkata after being arrested by the sleuths of Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is conducting a parallel probe in the school recruitment case, in January this year.

Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Education Rajkumar Ranjan Singh told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that in complete dismay and frustration, Kuki leaders including their 10 MLAs have demanded a separate political administration (equivalent to a separate state) for the tribals.

Internal rifts have emerged within the ruling BJP in Tripura, as former Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Sunday voiced concerns about the interference of ‘outsiders’ in party affairs in a move to weaken the party’s organization.

Jharkhand-based Maoist outfit People's Liberation Front of India's supremo (PLFI) Dinesh Gope, who had a reward of Rs 30 lakh on his head, was arrested in Delhi following a raid by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday, officials said.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday said that 'no one in BJP has lost their life due to terrorism, but Late Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi died in terror attacks.

Deep ethnic, subnational, and interpersonal fault lines have long defined the politics of Meghalaya. The Khasis, Jaintias, and Garos are the prominent indigenous communities in the three separate hill regions that make up the state.

Despite the assurance from the government, the long-pending demand of six ethnic groups in Assam - the tea tribes, Chutia, Koch-Rajbongshi, Matak, Moran, and Tai-Ahom - to grant Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to them is yet to be fulfilled.

After widespread ethnic violence broke out in Manipur on May 3, so far 6,665 men, women and children have taken shelter in several Mizoram districts while over 3,000 people have sheltered in Cachar district of southern Assam.

A police spokesman said that while taking bath, the three children aged about 6 to 12 drowned in the Khowai river. Six-year-old Ayan Das was rescued by his grandfather, who was accompanied by all the four children.

The northeast region, which covers 8 per cent of India's total geographical area and has 4 per cent of the country's population, presents a complex linguistic mosaic with over 200 tribal dialects.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday met Brazilian President Inacio Lula da Silva in Japan's Hiroshima and discussed the bilateral strategic partnership, especially in sectors of defence production, trade and renewable energy.

Chanana, head of the global rice brand Amira, is being investigated in India over claims that tens of millions of pounds of bank loans were unlawfully diverted into shell entities. Chanana has not responded to the claims, The Guardian reported.

Despite several laws having been promulgated in the country to protect the rights of women, often they are unable to reach out and take benefit of that, claimed Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the Calcutta High Court.

The TMP led by former royal scion Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barman in its maiden electoral battle fielded 42 candidates, including 20 on tribal reserved seats in the Tripura assembly polls in February and bagged 13 seats and 19.69 per cent votes.