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As the 400-odd petrol pumps and CNG dispensing units in the national capital remains shut Monday in protest against the Delhi government's refusal to reduce VAT on fuels, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal accused the BJP of threatening petrol pump owners to go on strike against the AAP dispensation.

US President Donald Trump is unlikely to accept India's invitation to be the chief guest at the Republic Day celebrations, sources said yesterday. The US said that Trump may not be able to honor the invitation as he will have pressing engagements around the time India celebrates its Republic Day.

बुधवार को भारत के एंटी-सैटेलाइट मिसाइल के सफल परीक्षण के बाद इस पर राजनीति का दौर शुरु हो गया है। पहले वित्त मंत्री अरुण जेटली ने आरोप लगाया कि अगर कांग्रेस सरकार पहले मंजूरी दे देती तो मिसाइल बहुत पहले बन गई होती। अब मिसाइल बनाने वाले रक्षा अनुसंधान एवं विकास संगठन (DRDO) के पूर्व प्रमुख वीके सारस्वत ने जेटली के विचारों से सहमति जताते हुए कहा है कि कांग्रेस सरकार ने मिसाइल बनाने के लिए मंजूरी नहीं दी थी।

Enforcement Directorate's Special Director in Mumbai, Vineet Agarwal, has been removed from the post by the government on Tuesday. He was ousted over his alleged interference in relieving the investigating officer in Nirav Modi's money laundering case without following due procedure. Officials said Agarwal's tenure has been reduced by three years. The 1994-batch Maharashtra-cadre IPS officer has been repatriated with immediate effect.

The release of an Indian pilot by Pakistan would be a "very much welcomed step", spokesperson for UN chief Antonio Guterres said yesterday, stressing that the message to India and Pakistan from the world body and the international community is to de-escalate tensions. Captured Indian Air Force pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman will be released today by Pakistan "as a gesture of peace."

On Friday, ISRO chief K Sivan said that the space agency had set a target of sending Indian astronauts, including women, to space by December 2021, as part of the Gaganyaan mission. Earlier, the target had been 2022. Sivan's comments came during a press conference in Bengaluru on ISRO's missions.

For the first time in five years, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the ISIS chief who had gone underground and was presumed dead, surfaced in a new video. The terror group's Al Furqan media network released a video of a man sitting beside an assault rifle. In 2014, Baghdadi gave a sermon to followers from a mosque in Mosul and then 'disappeared'. Here's more.

The Time magazine recently described PM Narendra Modi as India's "Divider in Chief" in a controversial cover story. The Prime Minister on Friday responded to being labeled as the country's "Divider In Chief" and said that Time magazine is a foreign publication and added that the writer of the story is from a Pakistani political family while commenting on his credibility. Here's more.

The camp of terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed in Pakistan's Balakot, which was bombed by Indian Air Force jets, has started functioning again, Army Chief Bipin Rawat announced on Monday. He said camp has been reactivated very recently. This shows that Balakot has been affected, he added.

The entire globe is facing an economic slowdown, but the effect is more pronounced in emerging economies like India, the chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday. Kristalina Georgieva, the Managing Director of IMF, said the global economy is experiencing a synchronized slowdown