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Framing guidelines for keeping foreigners in detention centres, govt tells SC

New Delhi, Nov 5: The Centre has informed the Supreme Court that the process of framing guidelines for keeping foreign nationals in detention centres across the country was “under preparation”.  The Centre told a bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur that the work of framing detention manual or […]

Indian villagers crush tigress to death after she killed man

LUCKNOW, India — Villagers in northern India have crushed a tigress to death with a tractor after she killed a man, officials said Monday. Forest officer Mahavir Kaujlagi said that villagers had circled around the tigress after it killed a man working on farmland late Sunday. When the […]

Darbar Move: J&K Secretariat opens in Jammu

Jammu, Nov 5: Civil Secretariat, the seat of the Jammu and Kashmir government, opened here on Monday after a 10-day break as part of the bi-annual ‘Darbar Move’. Besides the Civil Secretariat, the other move offices, including Raj Bhawan and police headquarters, also opened here after six months of […]

Golden memories? Graf ‘rarely looks back’ at Grand Slam

German great Steffi Graf had the tennis world at her feet when she completed the “Golden Slam” in 1988 but 30 years later, she says she hardly even thinks about the achievement. Graf, who retired in 1999 and married Andre Agassi two years later, said her life has […]

Iran vows to ‘proudly bypass’ US sanctions

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said the Islamic republic “will proudly bypass sanctions” by the United States that took effect on Monday targeting the country’s oil and financial sectors. The punitive measures described by Washington as “the toughest sanctions ever” come six months after US President Donald Trump’s controversial […]

SoftBank boss condemns Khashoggi murder, but won’t end ties

The head of Japanese firm SoftBank on Monday condemned the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but indicated he would continue to do business with Saudi Arabia. The hotly awaited comments by Masayoshi Son, whose conglomerate has close ties to the kingdom, threatened to overshadow the firm’s results, […]

Saudi sent ‘cover-up team’ to dispose of Khashoggi body: report

Saudi Arabia deployed a chemist and toxicology expert to Istanbul after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in an attempt to cover up evidence of the killing, a Turkish newspaper reported on Monday. The murder of the Saudi royal-insider-turned critic inside Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul has provoked […]

Skin cancer deaths rates soar, mostly for men: study

Skin cancer deaths among men have soared in wealthy nations since 1985, with mortality rates among women rising more slowly or even declining, researchers told a medical conference in Glasgow Sunday.  Reasons for the discrepancy between sexes are unclear but evidence suggests men are “less likely to protect […]

Work afoot by party for bypolls to 20 assembly seats in TN: AIADMK

Chennai : The teams set up by the ruling AIADMK to prepare for byelections to 20 Tamil Nadu assembly constituencies have begun their work, party coordinator and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam Monday said. He also rejected reports that Chief Minister K Palaniswami had asked the party workers to […]

China’s imports of goods, services to exceed USD 40 trillion in 15 yrs: Xi

  Beijing : China’s imported goods and services are set to exceed USD 40 trillion in the next 15 years, President Xi Jinping pledged Monday as he kicked off a major import fair in which India and 80 other countries are participating. An Indian delegation led by Commerce Secretary […]

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