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India-EU trade deal set to conclude in next few days, Spanish minister says

NEW DELHI, Jan 21 (Reuters) – A India-EU trade deal is likely to be concluded in the next few days, Spain’s Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said during a visit to New Delhi on Wednesday. “Everything is going forward perfectly. We do not expect any obstacle,” Albares said after bilateral meetings with India’s foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and president Droupadi Murmu in Delhi. Consolidating the deal was an important signal of the EU’s commitment to free trade and economic security, Albares added. “We need to make clear to the whole world that we believe in free trade and have the

CEC says pure voters’ list key to strengthen democracy

New Delhi, Jan 21 (PTI) Against the backdrop of opposition parties questioning the SIR (Special Intensive Revision) of electoral rolls, CEC (Chief Election Commissioner) Gyanesh Kumar on Wednesday asserted that a “pure” voters’ list is the key to strengthening democracy. Addressing the inaugural session of an international conference of election management bodies here, he also highlighted that not one complaint was filed challenging inclusion or exclusion of electors during the roll revision exercise in Bihar last year. Kumar also noted that not even a single repoll was ordered in the two phases of Bihar Assembly elections in any of the

FACT FOCUS: Trump highlights familiar false claims as he reviews his first year back in office

WASHINGTON, January 21, 2026 (AP) — President Donald Trump marked his first year back in office by presiding over a meandering, nearly two-hour-long press briefing to recount his accomplishments, repeating many false claims he made throughout 2025. Among the topics about which he continued to spread falsehoods were the 2020 election, foreign policy, the economy and energy. Here’s a closer look at the facts. 2020 election TRUMP, referencing former President Joe Biden: “… a man that didn’t win the election, by the way, it’s a rigged election. Everybody knows that now. THE FACTS: This is a blatant falsehood that has

India, Pak were going to go nuclear in my opinion: Trump repeats claim to end conflict in briefing

New York/Washington, (Jan 21 (PTI) US President Donald Trump touted ending the conflict between India and Pakistan as among the accomplishments of the first year of his second term in the White House, saying the two countries “were going to go nuclear” in his opinion, and that he saved millions of lives by stopping the war. Trump said he ended “eight unendable wars in 10 months”. “These were unendable wars – Cambodia and Thailand fighting for years, Kosovo and Serbia, the Congo and Rwanda. Pakistan and India, they were really going at it. Eight planes shot down. They were going

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