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Supreme Court says only Euro VI compliant vehicles to be sold from April 2020

MUMBAI : India’s Supreme Court said on Wednesday that only vehicles that meet the Euro VI fuel standards would be allowed to be sold in the country starting in April 2020. India currently uses Euro IV compliant fuels, called Bharat Stage IV in the country, and has decided […]

Israel Aerospace wins $777 million India contract for missile defence

TEL AVIV : State-owned Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has won an additional $777 million contract to supply LRSAM air and missile defence systems to seven ships in the Indian navy, the company said on Wednesday. The contract is with the Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL), which is the main […]

Asian markets mostly lower as energy firms tank

Asian equities mostly fell again Wednesday extending the previous day’s geopolitics-fuelled sell-off, with energy firms taking another battering in response to an oil market rout. Investors around the world are fleeing riskier assets such as stocks and high-yielding currencies in search of safety as a wave of negative […]

US slams ‘one of worst cover-ups’ in Khashoggi case

The United States said Tuesday it was revoking visas of Saudis involved in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as President Donald Trump ridiculed the kingdom’s response as “one of the worst cover-ups” in history. The move came as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Khashoggi’s killing inside […]

15 injured as bus skids off road

Jammu : Fifteen passengers were injured when a mini bus skidded off a road in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district Wednesday, police said. The bus carrying passengers from the border area of Nowshera skidded off the road and rolled down at Laam, they said. The injured passengers have been […]

Knock, knock with an app: the US door-to-door campaign ritual

Republican volunteer John Lombardo sets himself an ambitious target when going door-to-door on the campaign trail in battleground state Pennsylvania: a hundred door knocks every two hours. In the age of the smart phone and algorithms, door knocking has only cemented itself as a vital way to mobilize […]

Sewer death: Three men arrested for negligence

New Delhi : Three men have been arrested for alleged negligence in connection with the death of a 32-year-old man in a Delhi Jal Board sewer in northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri, police said Wednesday. Dooman Ray died on Sunday after he drowned in a sewer. On Tuesday, his family took […]

India win toss, elect to bat against West Indies

Visakhapatnam : India captain Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to bat in the second cricket one-dayer against the West Indies here on Wednesday. For India, left-arm spinner Kuldeep Yadav has replaced Khaleel Ahmed in the line-up. Teams: India: Virat Kohli (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Ambati Rayudu, […]

CBI feud: Director, special director divested of all powers; Nageswar Rao given charge

New delhi : CBI Director Alok Verma and Special Director Rakesh Asthana have been “divested of all powers” amid an ongoing spat between them, sources said, calling it the first such case in the history of the agency. As an interim measure, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet led […]

Migrants pause to honor dead man, rest, still far from US

HUIXTLA, Mexico : Still more than 1,000 miles from their goal of reaching the United States, a caravan of Central American migrants briefly halted its arduous journey Tuesday to mourn a fellow traveler killed in a road accident, and to rest weary, blistered feet and try to heal illnesses and […]

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