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The execution of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, scheduled for July 16 in Yemen, has been postponed following the timely intervention of the Indian government and the Grand Mufti of India, Sheikh Kanthapuram Aboobacker Musliyar. Nimisha, a Kerala-based nurse, was convicted in the 2017 murder of Yemeni national Talal Abdo Mahdi and has been on death row since 2020. With diplomatic channels limited in Yemen, the Grand Mufti took it upon himself to reach out to prominent Islamic scholars and authorities in the region. He contacted renowned Sufi scholar Habib Umar bin Hafeez, who in turn initiated talks with Yemeni officials and the victim's family to explore possible reconciliation under Islamic provisions. The Grand Mufti called this effort a 'national responsibility', and India hopes for a peaceful resolution. The brief postponement has created a narrow but crucial window for dialogue, forgiveness, and justice with compassion.#nimishapriya #grandmufti #indiayemen #executionpostponed #deathrowindia #keralanurse #indiadiplomacy #pardoningunderislam #backchanneldiplomacy #justiceandcompassion #toi #toibharat #bharat #trending #breakingnews #indianews
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PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi, who also heads the Asian Cricket Council, has been accused of playing politics by a BCCI source. The Indian board has also reportedly threatened to reject any resolution passed by the Asian body regarding the Asia Cup 2025 at the upcoming AGM in Dhaka. read more The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has accused Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Mohsin Naqvi of trying to 'assert unnecessary pressure' on India and ghosting the board's request as the future of the Asia Cup 2025 hangs in balance. The T20 tournament is expected to take place in September and while India are the designated host, there was a feeling that it was always going to be held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after India refused to travel to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy 2025. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD A neutral venue agreement has been reached between the BCCI and PCB regarding India-Pakistan matches in ICC tournaments. According to the agreement, neither India nor Pakistan will travel to the other's country if one is the designated host of an ICC event. As a result, it was felt that the Asia Cup would be held in the UAE to avoid forcing teams to play at a neutral venue later on. Asia Cup future hangs in balance However, the future of the Asia Cup 2025 has been mostly unclear since the Pahalgam terror attack that resulted in the loss of 26 lives and India's retaliatory attacks on Pakistan through Operation Sindoor. There have also been reports in Indian media that the BCCI would boycott the Asia Cup 20925, but that was later refuted by the board secretary. The final resolution on the Asia Cup matter could be taken at the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Annual General Meeting (AGM), which will be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 24 July. The ACC is currently headed by PCB chairman Naqvi and the BCCI is not willing to travel to Dhaka for the AGM. The relationship between India and Bangladesh has also worsened in the last one year and the Indian cricket team's white-ball tour to Bangladesh in August 2025 was also recently postponed to September 2026. The ACC, however, is yet to get back to the BCCI regarding the request for a venue change, with only a few days left for the ACC AGM. PCB's Naqvi playing games with BCCI? Amid the whole drama, a BCCI source has said that Naqvi is trying to put BCCI under pressure by going AWOL and any resolution taken at the meeting will be rejected by the BCCI. 'Asia Cup can happen only if the meeting venue changes from Dhaka. ACC chairman Mohsin Naqvi is trying to assert unnecessary pressure on India for the meeting. We requested him to change the venue, but have received no response. BCCI will boycott any resolution if Mohsin Naqvi goes ahead with the meeting in Dhaka,' a BCCI source told news agency ANI. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD It will be interesting to see how things unfold from here, but it looks certain that if ACC doesn't change the location of the AGM, then we may see further delay in reaching a resolution over hosting the Asia Cup 2025.
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My interview was on March 21, 1977, day Emergency was revoked: Jaishankar recalls UPSC journey
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar recalled his UPSC interview on the day the Emergency was lifted, highlighting the significance of communication under pressure. Addressing new civil service entrants, he likened the UPSC exam to a trial by fire. He emphasized the importance of understanding ground realities and contributing to India's development towards becoming a 'Viksit Bharat' by 2047. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday reminisced about his entry into the civil services, saying his UPSC interview in Delhi took place on March 21, 1977 -- the day the Emergency was lifted."(1977) Election results were coming from the previous day... The sense of the defeat of the Emergency rule was coming into understanding. In a way, that is what got me through the interview," he said in his address at an event down memory lane, Jaishankar, then 22, said he had returned from the interview with two key takeaways -- the significance of communication under pressure and that important people may be living in a "bubble".In his address to a gathering of the fresh batch of entrants to the civil services, the EAM termed the UPSC examination akin to an 'Agni Pariksha' (trial by fire), and said it is a "very unique" testing system in the world to select candidates for the real challenge is the interview, Jaishankar said, and cited his own UPSC interview that took place 48 years ago."My interview was on March 21, 1977. That was the day the Emergency was revoked. Revoked! So, I go in for an interview at Shahjahan Road... First person that morning," recalls Jaishankar, now a month ago, the Modi government marked the 50th anniversary of the imposition of the Emergency by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi, with events held across the country to recall what its leaders called a "dark chapter" in Indian democracy The 21-month Emergency was imposed on June 25, 1975 and lifted on March 21, Janata Party, a coalition of opposition leaders, emerged victorious in the 1977 elections, handing a defeat to Indira Gandhi, and Morarji Desai became the prime said, in the interview, he was asked about what had happened in the 1977 his association with JNU as a student and his subject of political science, the EAM reminisced, "I was lucky.""We had taken part in the 1977 election campaign. We had all gone there and worked for the defeat of the Emergency," Jaishankar in response, "I forgot I was in an interview", and at that moment, "my communication skills somehow came together," he a veteran diplomat who earlier served as foreign secretary and has widely travelled, said at that time, to explain to people who were "quite connected, sympathetic to the government, what had happened, without offending them, was actually quite a challenge".And, the second thing he said, he learned that day, of this "Lutyens' bubble"."These people were really shocked, they could not believe that this election result had happened, whereas for us, the ordinary students, we could see that there was a wave against the Emergency," the EAM recalled of the interview that day, he said he learned how to communicate under pressure and to do it without offending people."How do you persuade, how do you explain. This was one carry-away. The second carry-away was that important people may be living in a bubble and not realising what is happening in the country," the Union minister people in the field, because students like him who were part of the campaigns, and had visited places such as Muzaffarnagar, "we had picked up a sense on the ground", but, people sitting in Delhi, with all the information from all the systems, "somehow they missed it," he his address, he also asked what the barometer is to assess a successful democracy, saying it is not by voting record or voting percentage."To me, a successful democracy is when opportunity is given to the entire society; that is when democracy is working. They have the right to express themselves, but it is not a few people, on behalf of the whole society... expressing themselves," Jaishankar said, without exhorted the gathering of successful UPSC candidates to remember that they are all "entering into a service"."This Amrit Kaal of 25 years is your era. Your era, because you will have to work, you will have to deliver, and you will be the beneficiaries of this era, you will be the leaders of this era," the EAM urged them all to contribute to the vision of a Viksit Bharat by 2047."I want you to think 20 years ahead... When we move towards the journey of Viksit Bharat, what will be your contribution? And, the mindset that you have to bring to realise that dream of making a developed nation," he emphasised that good governance is also related to national new entrants to the civil services, he emphasised that "representing India abroad, representing India before the world, is the greatest privilege, the greatest honour that any Indian can have".The EAM said he had "no doubt that by 2030, we will become number 3, economically. But, moving to number 2 and eventually up, will be a big deal, and it will be tough, and will need big, national efforts".In the next 20 years of your service, you have to know that "big changes" will be coming. The coming era will be of AI, drones, space and EV and green hydrogen, he external affairs minister said in the Indo-Pacific region, "Our capabilities should be such that whatever challenges come, India is ready to step forward and assume responsibility, we call it a first responder. How do you prepare India to be a first responder?"
Deccan Herald
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BJP tried to sell false narrative that terror in J&K was due to Article 370: Omar Abdullah
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has unequivocally stated that Pakistan's "inimical intentions" remain the most formidable challenge to achieving a terror-free Jammu and Kashmir, cautioning Islamabad that India now views any terror attack as an act of an interview with PTI, Abdullah dismissed the narrative that the abrogation of Article 370 was the solution to terrorism in the region, asserting that the recent Pahalgam attack, which claimed 26 lives, had starkly proven this focus is to hand over more empowered J&K to present generation: Omar Abdullah."No matter what we do, if Pakistan's intent is inimical, then we will never fully achieve a terror-free Jammu and Kashmir. And I think Pahalgam has proven that," Abdullah said.."The BJP tried very hard to sell this narrative that terror in Jammu and Kashmir was the result of Article 370. We know that's not true. Terror in Jammu and Kashmir is the result of Pakistan's intentions. And therefore, that's why the removal of Article 370 did not stop terror in Jammu and Kashmir," he chief minister emphasised that the onus is now on Pakistan to reassess its strategy and highlighted a critical shift in New Delhi's posture, warning that the Indian government has set a "very low bar" for what constitutes an act of aggression.."The biggest challenge will be to convince Pakistan that its support for these sorts of activities is bad for us, but it's bad for Pakistan," Abdullah stressed.."And given now the sort of very low bar that the Government of India has set, that any attack will be seen as an act of war, Pakistan needs to seriously think about whether it wants to plunge the neighbourhood into a war." On the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 people, mainly tourists, Abdullah acknowledged Lt Governor Manoj Sinha's admission of a "security and intelligence failure" and termed it as a positive first he asserted that it was "not good enough." He said, "26 people died. 26 innocent people were brutally murdered. Where were the lapses? This Pahalgam incident brought two nations, two nuclear powers to war." "As a first step, it is appreciable that the Lt Governor (Manoj Sinha) has said that he is responsible. But down the chain of command, accountability has to be fixed, since we know now that it was a security and intelligence lapse. The next step would be to fix responsibility. And then heads must roll," he late than never that J&K L-G admitted intelligence failure for Pahalgam attack: Pahalgam, the chief minister expressed optimism to a question whether his government could balance the fragile peace with the vital need to revive tourism saying, "We have to trust our forces to do what is right and to ensure that any gaps that have been identified as a result of Pahalgam are plugged." He stressed about his government's push to restart tourism, saying "tourism is an important part of JK's economy" and said a vast number of jobs and its appeal as a destination people genuinely want to recent, gradual return of tourists was a heartening sign, a testament to the active efforts of his government to participate in events across the country to bring them the security audit of tourist spots, he said, "Not that it should be done, it was being done... and those have gradually started to be reopened, and I am hopeful that after Amarnath Yatra, most of the other ones that are closed will also be reopened." The closures, he noted, were an anomaly. "We have never had tourist destinations closed," he said, a hint of disbelief in his voice. "Even in the worst of days, tourist destinations were not closed." He presented a stark choice. Either the situation was now far worse than it had been 10 or 15 years ago, which he believed was not the case, or a considered decision needed to be made.."If that's not the case, then we need to sort of take a considered decision, and post-Amarnath Yatra, start reopening all the closed areas," he concluded, making it clear that a return to a full sense of normalcy was both necessary and long overdue.
