News Today Live Updates, 9 September | At BRICS, Jaishankar red-flags ‘linking of trade measures to non-trade matters’

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In an oblique reference to the US administration’s decision to impose an additional 25 per cent tariff on India as penalty for purchase of Russian oil, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday expressed concern at the “linking of trade measures to non-trade matters”. Calling for a “stable and predictable environment for trade and investment”, he underlined that economic practices should be “fair, transparent and to everyone’s benefit”.

While the numbers seem to be stacked in favour of the ruling BJP-led NDA in the Vice-Presidential election scheduled for Tuesday, in which the NDA’s candidate C P Radhakrishnan is pitted against the Opposition INDIA alliance’s nominee Justice (retired) B Sudershan Reddy, the decision of the BJD and the BRS to abstain from voting may further boost Radhakrishnan’s prospects.

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When flood waters tore through Gurdaspur, Pathankot, and Amritsar last month, submerging villages and breaching embankments, most eyes turned to the big players, the Bhakra Nangal and Pong dams managed by the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB). But this time, it wasn’t the Sutlej or Beas rivers that unleashed the greatest fury. It was the Ravi, fed by sudden releases from Punjab’s own Ranjit Sagar Dam (RSD), that brought devastation to the state’s northern belt.

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