Day: November 21, 2018

One killed, two injured in accident in UP

Muzaffarnagar : A 15-year-old girl was killed and two of her family members were injured after the motorcycle they were travelling on was hit by a speeding canter in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district, police said. The incident took place at the Kandhla-Kairana road on Tuesday evening, they said. The […]

BJP, Cong bet on turncoats in Rajasthan

The ruling BJP and the Congress in Rajasthan have fielded 11 turncoats for the December 7 Assembly polls, hoping that the “parachute” candidates will shine for them in the elections. Voices of dissent are being heard from both parties and sidelined party leaders are quick to cross over […]

Sikkim increases forest cover by over 4 pc since 1993: CM

Gangtok ; A plethora of initiatives for preserving biodiversity in Sikkim such as spreading mass awareness and adopting an eco-friendly policy has led to an increase of its forest cover by over four percent since 1993, Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling has said. The green cover in the tiny […]

Vice Prez, PM greet people on Milad-un-Nabi

New Delhi : Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday greeted people on Milad-un-Nabi, saying Prophet Mohammad showed humanity the path of universal brotherhood. Prophet Mohammad showed humanity the righteous path of compassion and universal brotherhood, Naidu wrote on Twitter. The prime minister said on […]

Sensex falls over 200 points on weak global cues

Mumbai :  The BSE benchmark Sensex fell over 200 points in early trade Wednesday following weak global cues amid fresh foreign fund outflows. The 30-share was trading 215.44 points, or 0.61 per cent, lower at 35,259.07 points. The gauge had lost 300.37 points Tuesday. Sectoral indices led by IT, […]

US backs S.Korean candidate, not Russian, to head Interpol

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday endorsed a South Korean candidate to take the helm of Interpol, brushing aside Moscow’s concerns that rivals are mounting a last-minute effort to scuttle a Russian frontrunner’s chances. Kim Jong-Yang is currently the acting president of the global police body. […]

Global stock markets plunge as tech fears mount

Global stocks plunged Tuesday as a sharp downward trend in the technology sector hit valuations hard and the Dow gave up all its gains for the year. In Europe and Asia, there was much talk about the surprise arrest of Carlos Ghosn, boss of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, and […]

Russia’s Rostec doing brisk arms trades despite sanctions

Arms giant Rostec is seeing strong demand for its advanced anti-missile systems despite international sanctions against the Russian defence sector, chief executive Sergei Chemezov told AFP in an interview. Chemezov, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, is nonetheless also charting a course to increase sales of Rostec’s non-military […]

US federal judge blocks Trump asylum claim restrictions

A US federal judge temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s administration from denying asylum to people who enter the country illegally, prompting the president to allege Tuesday that the court was biased against him. Trump issued a proclamation earlier this month saying that only people who enter the US at […]

The Latest: Senators demand ‘determination’ on Khashoggi

WASHINGTON — The Latest on U.S. response to the murder of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi (all times local): 6:50 p.m. The chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have written to the president demanding that his administration “make a determination” about whether Saudi Crown Prince […]

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