The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Saturday it supported the IAAF’s “strong stance against doping” following the athletics ruling body’s extension of Russia’s ban. “The IOC welcomes and supports the IAAF’s strong stance against doping. This is in line with the IOC’s long-held zero-tolerance policy. The IOC has taken note of the decision of […]
Ending months of suspense, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Govind Rajan formally told his colleagues on Saturday that he is not keen on a second term at the helm of the country’s central bank and will return to academia when his tenure ends in September. Soon after, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, while appreciating […]
Social media was abuzz with congratulatory messages after the Indian hockey team settled for a historic silver in the Champions Trophy final against Australia in London on Saturday. India were pipped by reigning world champions Australia 1-3 via penalty shoot-out to settle for the silver medal. Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the country in congratulating […]
Opposition National Conference (NC) and Congress MLAs on Saturday disrupted proceedings of the state assembly over “shortage of rations and spiraling prices in the state”. As the speaker of the state assembly, Kavinder Gupta took his seat to start the day’s proceedings, opposition MLAs stood on their seats shouting slogans against what they claimed has […]
The Champions Trophy final saw controversy and high drama when the Indian hockey team lodged a protest during the penalty shootout before finally settling for a historic silver after the jury announced that the 1-3 result against Australia would stay. After the gutsy Indians held World champions Australia goalless in 60 minutes of regulation period, […]
Police in Belgium have made 12 arrests in a huge anti-terror operation, following the deadly bomb attacks on capital Brussels in March. Those detained on Friday night are suspected of plotting a terrorist attack, prosecutors said on Saturday. They were among 40 taken in for questioning, BBC reported. Searches were conducted in 16 municipalities, mainly […]
The second black box of the crashed EgyptAir plane was retrieved, Egyptian investigators said on Friday. “Lethbridge John vessel, rented by the Egyptian government to take part in the search, has retrieved the second black box, flight data recorder of the crashed EgyptAir flight A320,” Xinhua news agency quoted the Egyptian Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee […]
Security forces on Friday shot dead two militants holed up in a house in Jammu and Kashmir’s Sopore town following a gun battle, police said. “Both militants have been killed in Chana Mohalla area,” a police officer said here. “The firing has stopped but searches are going on there.” Two AK-47 rifles and some ammunition […]
Fourteen years after 69 people were massacred at a housing society here during the Gujarat riots, a court on Friday sentenced 11 of the 24 convicts to life imprisonment, one man to 10 years and 12 others to seven years in jail. Pronouncing the punishment in a packed courtroom, Special SIT Court Judge P.B. Desai […]
Local communities across NSW are reaping the rewards of significant growth in the State’s domestic tourism market, with interstate visitors, holiday makers and business travellers underpinning a record $16.4 billion year for the NSW visitor economy. Minister for Trade, Tourism and Major Events Stuart Ayres said the new data from the Tourism Research Australia’s National […]