NEW DELHI- Dozens are feared dead after a train ran over people in Punjab’s Amritsar on Friday, TV channels reported. Times Now said they failed to hear the sound of the approaching train as it got drowned out by the noise of firecrackers being let off for Dussehra. […]
KOCHI/NEW DELHI- Hundreds of hardline Hindu protesters blocked two women from entering the Sabarimala temple on Friday in a third day of heated protests against the lifting of a ban on women of menstrual age. Three dozen priests staged a sit-in against the Supreme Court decision which overturned […]
That’s no moon… China is planning to replace streetlamps with light from an ‘artificial’ moon China is planning to launch its own ‘artificial moon’ by 2020 to replace streetlamps and lower electricity costs in urban areas, state media reported Friday. Chengdu, a city in southwestern Sichuan province, is […]
WASHINGTON— The Washington Post has published a new column by missing Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi in which he warns that governments in the Middle East “have been given free rein to continue silencing the media at an increasing rate.” The Post published the column Wednesday, more than two weeks after […]
MOSCOW— President Vladimir Putin says Russia would only use its nuclear weapons in response to an incoming missile attack. Putin said Thursday Russia’s military doctrine doesn’t envisage a preventative nuclear strike. He noted that Russia would only launch a nuclear strike if its early warning systems spot missiles […]
New Delhi, Oct 18:Â M J Akbar attended official meetings on Monday and Tuesday as the junior external affairs minister after returning from a trip abroad, the ministry said Thursday, in first comments on the issue. At a press conference, MEA Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar, replying to a question, said […]
NEW DELHI – India is considering tightening sexual harassment laws, government officials said on Thursday, after an avalanche of complaints of abuse lodged by women in recent weeks thrust the issue to the forefront of politics. Changes to the laws are being considered as the government weighs different […]
New Delhi, Oct 18: Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari died at a private hospital here Thursday after prolonged illness, doctors said. He was 93. Tiwari was admitted at the Max Super Speciality Hospital and died at 2.50 pm, the doctors said. The politician was shifted to […]
NEW DELHI — M.J. Akbar, India’s junior external affairs minister, resigned Wednesday amid accusations by 20 women of sexual harassment during his previous career as one of the country’s most prominent news editors, becoming the most powerful man to fall in India’s burgeoning #MeToo movement. Akbar said in […]
New Delhi, Oct 17:Â M J Akbar’s criminal defamation complaint against journalist Priya Ramani, who has accused him of sexual misconduct around 20 years ago, is scheduled to come up for hearing on Thursday in the Patiala House court here. Akbar resigned as Minister of State for External Affairs […]
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