Notwithstanding, the Indus Water Treaty's (IWT) most generous and unequal sharing of waters favouring Pakistan vis-a-vis India, Islamabad objected to the construction of Kishenganga and Ratle dams by New Delhi.

New Delhi [India], August 22 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday postponed the elections of the Executive Committee of All India Football Federation (AIFF) by a week and also terminated the mandate of the Committee of Administrators (CoA), which was set up to manage AIFF.

Centre has requested the Supreme Court to pass an order to direct the CoA to submit the final draft constitution for AIFF to the Court by the end of August 23, 2022, and that the mandate of the CoA be declared to be over in full from August 23

New Delhi [India], August 18 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered to maintain the status quo on the order of the Delhi High Court till Monday on a petition moved by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) challenging an order which appointed Committee of Administrator (CoA) for IOA for preparation of Constitution and conducting fresh elections.

New Delhi [India], August 18 (ANI): Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Thursday moved the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court's recent order which appointed the Committee of Administrators (CoA) of IOA to prepare the Constitution and conduct fresh elections to the country's governing body of Olympic sports.

Beijing [China], August 3 (ANI): Irked by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, China on Wednesday halted trade with Taiwan and said it is suspending imports of citrus fruits and fish products from Taipei.

New Delhi Mar 27 PTI The COVID-19 awareness pre-call audio announcements set by telecom operators at the start of the pandemic may soon become history After almost two years of raising awareness about the disease the government is now actively considering the removal of the COVID-19 pre-call messages after receiving representationsthat audio clips have served their intendedpurpose and are delaying critical calls during emergencies Official sources said the Department of Telecommunications DoT has written to the Union Health Ministry requestingit to drop these pre-call announcements and caller tunesIt cited representations received from Cellular Operators Association of India COA as well as mobile subscribers The health ministry is now considering removal of these audio clips in view of the improved pandemic situationin the country even as other measures for spreading public awarenessabout the safeguards against the viral disease will continue an official source said The instructions for implementation of COVID-19 pre-call announcements and caller tunes to Telecom Service Providers were issued by DoT following directions received from the Union Health Ministry The telecom service providers TSPs have been playing the pre-call announcements andcaller tunes related to coronavirus to spread awareness amongst citizens and tell them about the precautions and vaccination to be taken during the pandemic After the passage of around 21 months these announcements have served the intended purpose of awareness creation amongst the citizens and serve no value now The message being played across networks invariably results in holding up and delaying critical calls from going through during emergencies and ends in consumption of precious bandwidth resources This overloads the TSPs network and creates a significant delay in call connection the DoT said in a letter written recently to the Health ministry citing the representations It also impacts customer experience and many have approached the TSPs to deactivate these as it is a hindrance when the customers need to make urgent calls the letter said adding many complaints through RTI have requested to deactivate the RBTs ring back tone as the citizens are not able to connect to the people in case of emergencies PTI PLB RT RT

New Delhi Feb 23 PTI A 12-member Indian team will be embarking on a trip to Oman to compete in the WTT Contender event beginning February 27 marking the players first assignment after the Committee of Administrators took charge of the suspended TTFI The Delhi High Court suspended Table Tennis Federation of India TTFI earlier this month for running a sorry state of affairs and constituted a CoA headed by retired Justice Gita Mittal The committee assumed charge last week The Muscat events will kick-start the preparation of the players for the forthcoming Commonwealh Games in Birmingham and Asian Games in Hangzhou in August-September The WTT Contender will be the first preparatory outing for the players in the new year In the 12-member squad G Sathiyan World No 32 Harmeet Desai No 80 Anthony Amalraj No 99 Manika Batra No 49 and Archana Kamath No 99 are the Indians who figure in the top-100 in the world The other members include Manav Thakkar Sanil Shetty Manush Shah Sutirtha Mukherjee Diya Chitale Akula Sreeja Reeth Rishya and Ayhika Mukherjee The team that leaves on Friday will be accompanied by coaches Arup Basak and Subhajit Saha The CoA also cleared 11 other players who will be either self-funded or undertake the trip under TOPS They include promising youngsters Payas Jain Yashaswini Ghorpade Suhana Saini and Prapti Sen The qualifying events at Muscat will begin on Sunday while the main draw starts on March 2 The tournament concludes on March 5 Sharath Kamal for Singapore Smash Meanwhile five male and six female players will compete in the inaugural Singapore Smash 2022 championships from March 7 to 20 Sharath Kamal world No 33 and who opted out of the Muscat Contender event will be seen in action his first after a recent knee procedure he underwent in Chennai I skipped the Muscat event to concentrate on Singapore Smash because of the solid world ranking points it offershe said adding I am far more relaxed and fit for the event The players for Singapore Smash include G Sathiyan Harmeet Desai Anthony Amalraj and Manav Thakkar among men while Manika Batra Archana Kamath Sutirtha Mukherjee Akula Sreeja Ayhika Mukherjee and Madhurika Patkar among women PTI BS PDS PDS

New Delhi Feb 22 PTI Students of the College of Art COA have demanded the cessation of merger of the institute with the Delhi government-run Ambedkar University and accused the COA authorities of betrayal The students have also alleged that the college authorities have speeded up the file for de-affiliation of the college from Delhi University and its merger with Ambedkar University There was no immediate response from the COA management The demands of students were mentioned in a manifesto issued by the students community of the College of Art The decision was taken in March last year Delhi University was informed that the Office of the Lieutenant Governor has in principle approved the merger of the College of Art COA subject to its de-affiliation from the university DU has not yet approved the de-affiliation A section of students from the College of Art on Saturday also staged a protest near Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwals residence over the institutes merger with Ambedkar University We the students of COA demand a serious inquiry on the degrees and marksheets of certain professors We demand to expunge the idea of de-affiliation of COA from DU and cessation of the process of the merger of COA with AUD immediately and permanently for the imminent present and infinite future the manifesto read If only the merger is so compelling then we want merger with DU Also we humbly request you to begin the process of detained admission for the session of 2021-22 immediately and positively it added Not only students but the Delhi University Teachers Association also registered its protest against the merger saying that the College of Art was de-affiliated from DU and merged without consulting stakeholders and without due processes PTI VA GJS AAR