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Afghan govt delays plan to free Taliban prisoners, puts peace deal at risk According to the decree, only 1,500 Taliban prisoners would be initially released as a gesture of goodwill Current Affairs : Stocks were hammered on Monday and the dollar battered after crisis rate cuts in the United States and New Zealand, and a pile of steps by policymakers overall neglected to stem the defeat in business sectors scared by the expanding aftermath of the coronavirus. US stock prospects plunged 4.8% to hit their downlimit before sunrise in Singapore. The dollar sank over 2% against the yen. Australia’s benchmark stock record fell 7% in the main quarter-hour of exchange before paring a portion of the misfortunes. US rough fell 5% to under $30 per barrel. New Zealand shares were down 3%. Japan’s Nikkei was up 0.1% after an over 6% decay on Friday to the most minimal since late 2016. South Korea’s KOSPI was a shade more fragile. That left MSCI’s record of Asia-Pacific offers outs...

India set to finalise long-pending defence deal with US during Trump visit Trump will arrive in India on his maiden visit, accompanied by First Lady Melania Trump, Senior Advisor to the President of the United States Jared Kushner or daughter Ivanka Trump Current Affairs : India is set to settle a long-pending safeguard manage the United States during President Donald Trump two-day visit to India from February 24, a senior authority has told ANI. Trump will land in India on his lady visit, joined by First Lady Melania Trump, Senior Advisor to the President of the United States Jared Kushner or little girl Ivanka Trump, alongside United States Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Secretary of Energy Dan Brouille. The US President will arrive at Gujarat’s Ahmedabad around the early afternoon of February 24 and will address a mammoth horde of in excess of 100,000 individuals which is relied upon to turn up for an occasion at the Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad on the lines of ...

Citizenship Bill in line with our belief in humanitarian values: PM Modi The Lok Sabha passed the Bill with 311 votes in favour and 80 against it a little past midnight after a debate that lasted more than seven hours Current Affairs News :Leader Narendra Modi on Monday night communicated please over the section of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha, saying the proposed law is in accordance with India’s hundreds of years old ethos of osmosis and confidence in philanthropic qualities. The Lok Sabha passed the Bill with 311 votes in support and 80 against it a little past 12 PM after a discussion that endured over seven hours. “Charmed that the Lok Sabha has passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 after a rich and broad discussion. I thank the different MPs and gatherings that bolstered the Bill. This Bill is in accordance with India’s hundreds of years old ethos of osmosis and confidence in compassionate qualities,” he tweeted. He said he might want...

BJP will tell SC that we reject this NRC, says Himanta Biswa Sarma Addressing party workers, the Assam minister said that the BJP will reintroduce the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the parliament Current Affairs  :- Assam Finance Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma hosts said that the Bharatiya Janata Get-together doesn’t acknowledge the National Register of Citizens and will tell the Supreme Court that it rejects NRC, announced Economic Times. He was tending to BJP laborers in Karimganj and Silchar, which are Bengali ruled territories. In his location to the gathering laborers, he said that the Citizenship Amendment Bill would be reintroduced in the Parliament in the winter session and it will allow Indian citizenship to minority displaced people from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. “May there be a case in the Supreme Court and we will say that BJP rejects this NRC. We don’t have faith in this NRC. Under the initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah th...

No evidence that India is running afoul of sanctions on Iran: US official We have no evidence that India is running afoul of US sanctions, Special US Representative to Iran, Brian Hook, told reporters at the Foreign Press Centre Current Affairs :- The US has no proof that India is crossing paths with American authorizes on Iran through the Chabahar port, a top US negotiator said on Tuesday. India said it prevented bringing in oil from Iran after American waivers allowed to eight purchasers lapsed in May. India around then had trusted that US approvals would not influence its organization in building up Iran’s Chabahar port. “We have no proof that India is crossing paths with US sanctions,” Special US Representative to Iran, Brian Hook, told columnists at the Foreign Press Center. Snare was reacting to a columnist’s inquiries charging that India is damaging the US endorses through the Chabahar port which it is working in Iran with the end goal of Afghanistan. “I’m cur...