Day: October 4, 2019

Hong Kong leader bans masks in hardening stance on protests

HONG KONG — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam banned protesters from wearing masks Friday in a hardening of the government’s stance on the territory’s most disruptive crisis since it reverted to Chinese rule in 1997. Lam announced the ban at an afternoon news conference where she decried a […]

Shot putter Toor, 1500m runner Jinson crash out of World C’ships

Doha, Oct 4 : India’s Asian Games gold medallist duo of shot putter Tejinder Pal Singh Toor and 1500m runner Jinson Johnson crashed out of the World Athletics Championships after failing to qualify for the finals of their respective events. The 24-year-old Toor produced a season’s best effort of […]

India – Bangladesh Business forum meets in New Delhi

Open view news desk India and Bangladesh are not competitors but collaborators in making both countries prosperous and ensuring a better future for their people said the Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Railways, Piyush Goyal at the India – Bangladesh Business Forum held in New Delhi today. The […]

Coal India offers high end pumps for Patna deluge

Kolkata, Oct 4 : Coal India Ltd (CIL) has rushed four heavy duty pumps to drain out water from low-lying inundated residential areas of Patna, a company official said on Friday. Two pumps with a pumping capacity of 1,000 gallons per minute and two others with a pumping capacity […]

DRI seizes 6.5 kg opium paste, two held

Kolkata, Oct 4 (PTI) The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence has seized 6.5 kg of opium paste from two persons travelling in a bus near West Bengal’s Siliguri town, a DRI official said on Friday. Acting on a tip-off, DRI officials apprehended the two persons from a bus coming from […]

Plea in HC against new pet shop rules

New Delhi, Oct 4 : A plea has been moved in the Delhi High Court challenging the constitutionality of the dog breeding and marketing rules, including mandatory registration, framed under the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA) for running a pet shop. The petition, by an association of pet shop […]

5 more persons in Odisha witchcraft torture case

Berhampur, Oct 4 : Five more persons were arrested on Friday for their involvement in pulling out the teeth of six elderly persons and forcing them to consume human excreta at a village in Odisha’s Ganjam district suspecting them of practising witchcraft, a police officer said. With this, the […]

Nearly 1,900 dead in monsoon rains, floods across India

New Delhi, Oct 4 : Nearly 1,900 people lost their lives and another 46 were reported missing this monsoon season in rains and floods which affected more than 25 lakh in 22 states, Union Home Ministry officials said on Friday. The highest 382 people died in Maharashtra, followed by […]

Union Ministers Shri RK Singh and Shri Pralhad Joshi launch PRAKASH portal for transparency and better coordination in coal supplies to power plants

Open view news desk The Union Minister of State for Power and New & Renewable Energy (IC) and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Shri RK Singh and the Union Minister for Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs, Shri Pralhad Joshi jointly launched PRAKASH (Power Rail Koyla Availability through Supply Harmony) […]

Shri Nitin Gadkari Reviews Progress of National Highways Projects

Open view news desk Shri NitinGadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways and MSME has directed officials of National Highways Authority of India to speed up the implementation of projects through faster decision making and stricter monitoring. The Minister, along with the MoS, Gen(Retd) V.K.Singh,  held a […]

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