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An Indian official plotted to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader in New York, US prosecutors say

NEW YORK (AP) — An Indian government official directed a plot to assassinate a prominent Sikh separatist leader living in New York City, United States prosecutors said Wednesday as they announced charges against a man they said was part of the thwarted conspiracy. U.S. officials became aware in the spring of the plot to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, who advocated for the creation of a sovereign Sikh state and is considered a terrorist by the Indian government. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration interceded and set up a sting, with an undercover agent posing as a hitman, after the conspirators recruited

Coal will remain an important part of India’s energy needs: Foreign Secretary

NEW DELHI, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Coal will remain India’s main source of energy for years to come, a top government official said on Thursday, underscoring its commitment to the use of the fossil fuel as the U.N.’s COP28 climate summit opens in Dubai. “Coal is, and would, remain an important part of India’s energy needs,” Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra told reporters ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to Dubai. Reuters reported that India, which depends on coal for 73% of its energy needs, is scrambling to add 17 gigawatts of coal-based power generation capacity at its fastest

7 bodies recovered from fire-hit chemical unit in Surat

Surat, Nov 30 (PTI) A day after a major fire engulfed a chemical manufacturing facility in Gujarat’s Surat city, bodies of seven missing workers were recovered from the premises in the early hours of Thursday, officials said. Out of the seven persons found dead at the chemical manufacturing unit of Aether Industries Ltd in Sachin industrial area of the city, one was an employee of the company while six others were working on contract, Surat Collector Ayush Oak said. “During a search operation in the factory premises, officials found bodies of seven workers who went missing after the fire which

IAS officer Veera Rana gets additional charge of MP chief secretary

Bhopal, Nov 30 (PTI) The Madhya Pradesh government on Wednesday night decided to give the additional charge of chief secretary to senior IAS officer Veera Rana, a senior official said. The 1988-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer is currently posted as chairperson of the Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education and also holds the additional charge of the state’s agriculture production commissioner. Rana, who will take charge of the new assignment on Thursday, will be only the second woman bureaucrat in Madhya Pradesh’s history to function as chief secretary, a state’s top bureaucratic post. IAS officer Nirmala Buch had the

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