The alumni meet of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur (IIT-K) beginning Jan 17 may be attended by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who graduated in mechanical engineering from the institute in 1989, the alumni cell said Saturday. “This year, the 1989 batch will be celebrating its silver jubilee. We have sent a formal invitation. We […]
Lauding late litterateur Sunil Gangopadhyay, President Pranab Mukherjee said Saturday the amount of historical research that went into his writing was noteworthy. Presenting the Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award for Excellence in Bengali literature at the Raj Bhavan here, the president said he has read many of his works and was extremely impressed with his talent. […]
A policy of broader cooperation, coupled with loose coordination, to cobble up an alliance of non-Congress secular parties ahead of the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls is what the Left hopes for, CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat said here Saturday. Karat spelt out the strategy of his Communist Party of India-Marxist, as well as of the […]
Russia has backed the Jan 5 general elections in Bangladesh and said it was ready to continue constructive partnership with the next government, a media report said Saturday. Russia also regretted that the key opposition parties in Bangladesh boycotted the elections, bdnews24.com reported Saturday citing a Russian foreign ministry statement. “Russia confirms that it is […]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on the international community to provide more political attention and resources to the world body as it faces an overflowing plate of conflicts and disasters. “The situations in Syria, South Sudan and the Central African Republic have gone from bad to worse,” he said in his first news […]
More than 240 houses were damaged by a fire that started in the early hours of Saturday in an ancient town in Shangri-la, a resort county in southwest China’s Yunnan Province, forcing 2,600 residents to evacuate. The fire lasted nine hours till 10:30 a.m. at the Ruyi Inn in the Dukezong Ancient Town, where most […]
At least five people were killed and six injured when a group of armed people attacked a camp for internally displaced persons in Sudan’s Darfur state, the commissioner of Bilail said. “An armed group from Um Qoja area opened intensive fire in Al-Salam camp when people were busy shopping in a market, which left five […]
The Uttar Pradesh government Saturday said that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who lives in Ghaziabad, will get ‘Z’ category security despite his refusal to accept security. A home department official said a committee comprising of Principal Secretary (Home) A.K. Gupta and Director General of Police Rizvan Ahmad Thursday okayed the new security set up […]
At least 71 people have died of cholera in Nigeria’s Kano state, an official said. Abdulsalam Nasidi, project director of Nigeria’s Centre for Disease Control, said Friday that 2,165 cases had been recorded in the affected areas in the past two months. The government has sent a team with drugs to the state to help […]
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has slammed rumours that she had Photoshopped her pictures before posting them on Instagram after she gave birth to her baby. She insists she has worked hard for her post-pregnancy figure. The “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star has blasted rumours she digitally altered a recent photograph of her and […]