Month: October 2018

District Water Sports Championship 2018 concludes at Srinagar

open view web desk SRINAGAR OCTOBER 19: Secretary, Youth Service & Sports (YSS), Sarmad Hafeez  distributed medals among the winners of District Championship 2018 for Water Sports at water sports centre Nehru Park, here. Around 370 athletes participated in water sports games which include Kayaking, Canoeing, Dragon Boat, […]

Indian temple priests turn back women, defying court ruling

NEW DELHI— Dozens of Hindu priests on Friday joined conservative protesters to block women of menstruating age from one of the world’s largest Hindu pilgrimage sites, defying a ruling from India’s top court to let them enter. The priests threatened to stop rituals and prayers in the Sabarimala […]

No insurance cover to persons suffering from congenital anomalies: HC seeks IRDAI explanation

New Delhi, Oct 19:  The Delhi High Court has asked the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDAI) to “explain the reasonableness” of not granting insurance cover to people suffering from congenital anomalies. “What is the objection to giving insurance cover to them (people suffering from congenital anomalies),” a bench […]

Cong, BJP flay Kerala government for bringing activists to Sabarimala

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 19: The opposition Congress and BJP Friday hit out at the Left government in Kerala for allegedly extending support to bring women activists to Sabarimala temple, hurting the sentiments of devotees. They also alleged the police gave one of the women, who climbed to the hill shrine […]

Southeast Asia hails world’s first multilateral air encounter code

SINGAPORE- Southeast Asian countries agreed on Friday to guidelines to manage unexpected encounters between their military aircraft, with host Singapore calling the pact a world first and saying they would encourage their international partners to join. The agreement, signed by defence ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast […]

Firecrackers and reluctant authorities: Delhi’s smog set to worsen

NEW DELHI – With a toxic smog beginning to envelop New Delhi as winter approaches, residents of the Indian capital are set to make matters a lot worse by burning hundreds of thousands of firecrackers to celebrate the Hindu festival of Diwali early next month. India, which has […]

China’s GDP growth slows to 6.5 percent in third quarter

Workers unload bags with clothes from a truck in front of a wholesale clothing market in Shanghai China’s economy grew at its slowest pace in nine years in the third quarter, as a campaign to tackle mounting debt and trade frictions with the US had an effect. The […]

Hindu groups again block women from entering Sabarimala temple

KOCHI/NEW DELHI- Hundreds of hardline Hindu protesters blocked two women from entering the Sabarimala temple on Friday in a third day of heated protests against the lifting of a ban on women of menstrual age. Three dozen priests staged a sit-in against the Supreme Court decision which overturned […]

Killing me softly

Palu, Indonesia — Every time I cover a disaster like this, a little piece of me is lost. The soft part of you, the part that feels, that cares, the human part I guess. It kills that part of you a bit. I can feel that it’s not as […]

New moon: China to launch lunar lighting in outer space

That’s no moon… China is planning to replace streetlamps with light from an ‘artificial’ moon China is planning to launch its own ‘artificial moon’ by 2020 to replace streetlamps and lower electricity costs in urban areas, state media reported Friday. Chengdu, a city in southwestern Sichuan province, is […]

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