News18 Evening Digest: AAP Leaders Atishi is Delhi’s New Education Minister, Saurabh Bharadwaj Gets Health And Other Top Stories

AAP Leader Atishi is Delhi’s New Education Minister, Saurabh Bhardwaj recovers health; both swear

AAP leaders Atishi and Saurabh Bhardwaj took oath as ministers in the Delhi government on Thursday in the presence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and LG VK Saxena. Read more

‘Pitch Perfect’: How the Modi government is changing the game Cricket diplomacy

Cricket diplomacy is nothing new to India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi Watched the fourth Test match between India and Australia in Ahmedabad on Thursday with Australian PM Anthony Albanese as the two leaders stood with their respective teams in the ground during the national anthem. Read more

‘Under the covers’: History books filled with hatred for India and Hindus in Pakistan schools, finds News18

From indirect negative references to Mahatma Gandhi, accusations, vilification and claims of being a “Muslim nationalist”, the history textbooks taught in classes 8 and 9 in Pakistan’s schools are filled with material that is anti-India as well as anti-India. There are also anti-Hindu. Written and designed by the country’s educational experts in line with its national curriculum, the textbooks taught to young minds present students with a wrong and hostile picture of their neighboring nation right from the start. Read more

Political mercury rose in Delhi with the poem ‘Woman of the Moment’. Will ED’s summons lose its sheen?

The summons from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the ‘dharna’ for the Women’s Reservation Bill have brought the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader’s poem into the political spotlight. At a press conference in New Delhi on Thursday, the Telangana MLC said that in poll-bound states ‘ED comes before PM Modi’. Read more

From the Ukraine war to a hostile China, the absence of a full-time envoy has affected US-India relations. Can Garcetti fill the void?

The absence of the US ambassador to India for more than two years is now an embarrassment” – a statement by a top Democratic senator summed up a rare hiccup in India-US relations. However, it looks like the country is waiting for an ambassador. The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday voted in favor of former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti as India’s ambassador. Garcetti, who is Joe Biden’s choice for the role, will now face a vote on the floor of the US Senate. Read more

Air India cabin crew caught smuggling 1.4 kg gold wrapped in their hand in Kochi

According to officials, a cabin crew of Air India Express was caught trying to smuggle around 1,500 grams of gold at the Kochi airport. Shafi, a resident of Wayanad, was caught with 1,487 grams of gold. As per ANI report, his shirt sleeve was used as a cover to pass through the green channel. Read more

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