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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked foreign oil companies to ease payment terms and channel their investible surplus into commercial exploitation in the developing countries. The PM has met CEOs of oil companies and experts on the issue amid a non-stop rise in petrol and diesel prices.

PM Modi made the request at an interaction with chief executives of top oil companies and ministers from Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

New Delhi: In view of recent clashes over the killing of terrorist Mannan Wani, Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik said that his administration has taken up the issue of the well-being of Kashmiri students studying in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) with the Uttar Pradesh government.

The governor’s assertion came a day after three Kashmiri students of AMU were booked on sedition charges for allegedly raising “anti-India” slogans and trying to hold a funeral prayer meeting for Hizbul Mujahideen militant Manan Bashir Wani on October 12.

New Delhi: National president of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Amit Shah said that the BJP government will expel every infiltrator from the country after winning the 2019 Lok Sabha election. He alleged that infiltrators were the vote bank for the Congress, Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). But for the BJP it was an issue of national security.

Shah was addressing a BJP’s booth level workers meeting at Hoshangabad, 70 kilometers south of Bhopal. He is on a two-day tour to Madhya Pradesh.

New Delhi: The Congress that has edge over the Assembly elections in the Rajasthan, state Congress president Sachin Pilot said that unlike the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress will not make false promises in its manifesto for the upcoming assembly election in the state.

He said that the party will take feedback of all stakeholders across the state and the suggestions would be given to the election manifesto committee to incorporate them.

Congress will not make false promises, tell lies and create confusion of statistics in the election manifesto, Pilot said at a press conference after a marathon meeting of party’s election coordination committee here.