Kolkata, Sep 2: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she was sad to see that the values endorsed by India’s founding fathers were being undermined. “On this day in 1946, the interim government of Undivided India was formed, which functioned till August 1947. I am saddened […]
New Delhi, Sep 2: Congress president Sonia Gandhi greeted people on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, saying it is a festival that symbolises the cultural unity of the country and brings people together. Ganesh Chaturthi, also called Vinayaka Chaturthi, is celebrated to mark the birth of Lord […]
New Delhi, Sept 2: A 26-year-old man was detained while he was allegedly trying to enter the Parliament House with a knife on Monday, police said. Sagar, a resident of Laxmi Nagar area of Delhi, was detained from gate number 1 of the Parliament around 10.45 am while […]
New Delhi, Sep 2: India has accepted the consular access extended by Pakistan to death-row convict Kulbhushan Jadhav and a senior Indian diplomat will meet him on Monday, official sources said as tensions over Kashmir simmer between the two countries. Charge d’ Affaires at the Indian High Commission in […]
WASHINGTON — Facing another deadly mass shooting, President Donald Trump is deflecting on gun control. Over the weekend, he pointed to mental illness as a likely culprit behind recent shootings in Odessa, Texas and elsewhere, even though criminologists routinely point to gun ownership as a far better predictor […]
HONG KONG — High school students in Hong Kong added gas masks, goggles and hard hats to their formal white uniforms as they planned a strike on the first day of school Monday to show their commitment to a fiery anti-government protest movement. The nearly three months of […]
McLEAN’S TOWN CAY, Bahamas — In a slow, relentless advance, a catastrophic Hurricane Dorian kept pounding at the northern Bahamas early Monday, as one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded left wrecked homes, shredded roofs, tumbled cars and toppled power poles in its wake.Full Coverage: Hurricane Dorian The […]
HONG KONG – Hundreds of Hong Kong university and school students swapped classes for democracy demonstrations on Monday, the latest act of defiance in an anti-government movement that has plunged the Chinese-ruled city into its biggest political crisis in decades. The boycott follows a weekend marred by some […]
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan – A Kashmiri militant commander said on Sunday that Pakistan should send troops to protect the people of India-controlled Kashmir if the United Nations does not send peacekeepers, after New Delhi revoked its autonomy last month. “It’s binding upon the armed forces of Pakistan, the first […]
BENGALURU – Expansion in India’s manufacturing sector hit its slowest in 15 months in August as demand and output grew at their weakest pace in a year and cost pressures increased, a private sector survey showed on Monday. The survey comes after official figures showed India’s economy grew […]
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