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Hours after India expelled a Canadian diplomat on Tuesday in a tit for tat move in retaliation to Canada's action of expelling an Indian diplomat, the Canadian Embassy in the national capital asked its local staffers to leave the premises during the noon, sources said.

A highly placed source said that the Canadian Embassy in the national capital was shut post 2 p.m.

The source said that the locally engaged staff at the Embassy were asked to vacate the premises immediately in view of the current diplomatic tensions.

Amit Shah said Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury had made two factually incorrect statements in the House on the Women’s Reservation Bill and asked him to withdraw his statement or bring forth evidence and present it on the table in the House Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday intervened in the speech of leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, saying that he had made two factually incorrect statements in the House on the Women’s Reservation Bill and asked the latter to withdraw his statement or bring forth evidence and present it on the table in the House.

The United States is unable to engage in direct discussions with Russia regarding the Karabakh issue. However, it is cognizant of Russia's invitations to parties for talks, reported NEWSam. Ambassador Michael Carpenter, serving as the US Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), conveyed this information to the RFE/RL Armenian Service. He emphasized that the decision to participate in these talks lies with the involved parties.

In a big move for women's empowerment, the Narendra Modi government is set to table a constitutional amendment bill in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday for reserving one-third of seats in Parliament and state legislatures across the country.

The decision, pushed by the Prime Minister and cleared by the Union Cabinet at a meeting on Monday evening, aims to secure passage of the bill in the two Houses in the special session, beginning a long process that will entail support, besides two-thirds backing in both Houses and ratification by half of the assemblies. The bill will also provide for sub-quota for SC/STs in proportion to their existing share.

India's Aditya-L1 solar mission spacecraft has commenced collecting data that will help scientists analyse the behaviour of particles surrounding Earth, ISRO said on Monday. The sensors of an instrument on board India's first solar observatory have begun measuring supra-thermal and energetic ions and electrons at distances greater than 50,000 km from Earth, it said.

"This data helps scientists analyse the behaviour of particles surrounding Earth," the Bengaluru-headquartered national space agency said in a post on social media platform X. The Supra Thermal & Energetic Particle Spectrometer (STEPS) instrument is a part of the Aditya Solar Wind Particle EXperiment (ASPEX) payload.