New Delhi, Mar 23: President Ram Nath Kovind Saturday administered the oath of office to Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose as the country’s first Lokpal. The oath was administered at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, a communique issued by the President’s office said. Justice Ghose, a former Supreme Court […]
Kashmiri politician Mehbooba Mufti has urged India to start a dialogue with Pakistan and separatists in Kashmir to defuse tensions raised by February’s attack on CRPF personnel in Pulwama that was claimed by the Jaish-e-Mohammad, a Pakistan-based militant group. Mufti, who governed Jammu and Kashmir in alliance with […]
NEW YORK – Cyberattacks on financial institutions are increasingly being linked to nation-states, resulting in destructive and disruptive damages rather than just theft, according to a report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Out of 94 cases of cyberattacks reported as financial crimes since 2007, the attackers […]
NEW DELHI – India’s Reliance Industries, operator of the world’s largest oil refining complex, on Friday said in a statement it was not breaching U.S. sanctions against Venezuela. The company said its recent fuel exports to Venezuela were agreed to before Washington imposed sanctions in January, and that […]
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan wants peace with India and they should focus on health and education, the Pakistani president said on Saturday during a parade to show off its military might following a tense standoff between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Conflict between the rivals erupted last month following a suicide […]
NEW DELHI – For over a decade Arvind Singh has worked as a watchman in New Delhi, doing the rounds of the streets with a whistle and a wooden stick to keep vigil at night. Watchmen like him are so ubiquitous in India, guarding everything from offices to […]
China’s Liu Yu made the most of her early morning start, firing an eight-under par 64 on Friday to join world number one Park Sung-hyun atop the leaderboard of the LPGA Founders Cup. Liu matched France’s Celine Boutier — a former teammate at Duke University — for low […]
A “very destructive” category 4 cyclone slammed into Australia’s remote northern coast on Saturday, while a second, equally powerful storm bore down on the country’s west. Cyclone Trevor, pushing a big storm tide and packing winds of up to 250 kilometres per hour (150 mph), made landfall on […]
France’s “yellow vests” are expected to stage further anti-government protests Saturday despite the authorities vowing a “zero tolerance” approach after major riots in Paris last week. Paris police have banned the protesters from a large area in the west of the city, including the famed Champs-Elysees avenue, scene […]
The death toll in a chemical plant explosion in China rose to 64 Saturday but rescuers found a survivor among more than two dozen still missing in the debris of one of the country’s worst industrial accidents in recent years. Thursday’s explosion in the eastern city of Yancheng […]
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