Day: May 30, 2019

US removes India from its currency monitoring list

Washington : The US on Tuesday removed India from its currency monitoring list of major trading partners, citing steps being taken by New Delhi which addressed some of the Trump administration’s major concerns. For the first time, the US placed India in its currency monitoring list of countries in […]

Gas project critic Marape elected Papua New Guinea PM

Port Moresby :  Papua New Guinea lawmakers overwhelmingly elected James Marape as prime minister on Thursday — a former finance minister who resigned in protest against a massive ExxonMobil and Total gas project. Marape won the landslide backing of members of parliament after weeks of political manoeuvring that saw […]

Pak extends closure of airspace along India till border till June 15

Islamabad :Pakistan has further extended the closure of its airspace along its eastern border with India until June 15, according to the country’s civil aviation authority. Pakistan fully closed its airspace in February after an Indian Air Force strike on a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror camp in Balakot. The […]

Jagan Reddy to be sworn-in AP CM Thursday

Amaravati (AP) :  YSR Congress chief Yeduguri Sandinti Jaganmohan Reddy will be sworn-in Thursday as the second Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh post its bifurcation. Governor E S L Narasimhan will administer the oath of office and secrecy at 12.23 pm in a grand public function at the IGMC […]

Mercury rises in Delhi, heat wave forecast for next one week

New Delhi :  The mercury rose by a few notches in the national capital on Thursday morning to settle at 26.8 degrees Celsius, with heat wave likely to sweep Delhi for the next one week. The maximum temperature is expected to hit 44 degrees Celsius later in the day, […]

Cong decides not to send spokespersons for TV debates

New Delhi : The Congress has decided not to send spokespersons for television debates for a month. The move comes after the party’s debacle in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls. The Congress has often accused the media of being “biased” towards the Modi dispensation. “@INCIndia has decided to […]

Water crisis grips Chennai

Chennai : A row of vessels line a street corner where a water-tanker is parked; a gaggle of women quibble as they await their turn to get the pots filled– this has become a daily affair in several parts of Chennai with the city staring at an acute water […]

Ganga River water unfit for direct drinking, bathing:CPCB

open view news desk The Ganga River water is absolutely unfit for “direct drinking” and only seven spots from where it passes can be consumed after disinfection, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has said. According to the latest data with the CPCB, most of the Ganga River […]

Man travelling atop truck mowed down

New Delhi : A 36-year-old man was allegedly mowed down by a truck in east Delhi’s Vinod Nagar area, police said Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Mohammad Raqeeb, a resident of Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, they said. According to the police, Raqeeb was travelling on […]

Woman kills her two children, self over family dispute

Muzaffarnagar (UP) : A 36-year-old woman allegedly poisoned her two children to death before committing suicide over a family dispute at a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district, police said Thursday. The incident took place Wednesday at Gogvan Jamalpur village. The woman was identified as Rachna while her two […]

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