Hong Kong’s High Court on Tuesday ruled that two legislators-elect, who used insulting language against the Chinese nation while taking their oaths last month, must be disqualified as lawmakers. The ruling came after the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) government and Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying filed a judicial review on October 18 against the […]
An elderly man died while waiting in a queue to change withdrawn currency notes at a bank here on Tuesday. Lakshminarayana, 75, collapsed and died while waiting in a long queue for over two hours at Andhra Bank branch in Marredpally in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad. He was rushed to a hospital, where […]
In an Australian first, NSW residents can download the first ever digital licences on their smartphone or tablet, with the launch of the digital Recreational Fishing Fee (fishing licence), Responsible Service of Alcohol (RSA) and Responsible Conduct of Gambling (RCG) Competency Cards. From today, the licences are available through the new “My Licences” digital wallet […]
Teenage paralympic swimmer Kumari Revathi Nayka and chess player Dev Shah were among the recipients of the National Child Awards, which President Pranab Mukherjee conferred on Monday at Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Children’s Day. The awards were given to 31 children, three individuals and five institutions in the categories of ‘National Child Award for Exceptional […]
RJD leader Lalu Prasad on Monday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the demonetisation and wondered when he would deliver his election promise of giving every Indian Rs 15 lakh from the black money seized from foreign banks. Referring to Modi’s appeal to people to bear with the currency crisis for another 50 days, Lalu […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday launched another attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the currency spike, saying it had caused misery to the common man. Challenging Modi’s claim that the poor were now having a peaceful sleep and only the rich were “taking sleeping pills”, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader told […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday justified demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency and said as a result of the move, the poor were sleeping in ease and those who have stashed ill-gotten money are running from pillar to post, buying sleeping pills. Addressing an impressive gathering at Ghazipur, the Prime Minister said […]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed a call from US president-elect Donald Trump for unity after what has been described as a bitter and divisive presidential campaign. In a phone call on Friday afternoon when anti-Trump protests were underway across the United States, Ban congratulated Trump again on his election as the forty-fifth President of the […]
Hillary Clinton told donors that the FBI delivered a double whammy to her presidential candidacy in the final days of the campaign by taking another look at emails related to her private server before abruptly saying he found no wrongdoing. A member of her national finance committee who was on the call on Saturday told […]
Long serpentine queues were seem in front of banks and ATMs on the fourth consecutive day on Sunday as thousands of anxious people waited to deposit or exchange their spiked currency or take out cash. People formed queues in front of banks much before their scheduled time to open, to exchange ctheir Rs 500 and […]