A Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander and an army soldier were killed on Thursday in a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, Defence sources said. Security forces laid an ambush in Gasigund village of Dooru area in Anantnag following information about militant movement. “In the resulting shootout LeT commander identified as Abu Ukasha belonging to Verinag […]
Antigua and Barbuda has assured India that it will extradite fugitive jewellery merchant Mehul Choksi as soon as the legal formalities are over, according to External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar. The assurance was conveyed by Antigua’s Foreign Minister Chet Greene when he met External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday on the sidelines of […]
Former Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President B.N. Dutt died at his south Kolkata residence on Monday following respiratory ailments, family sources said. Dutt, 92, is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter. The veteran cricket administrator was in and out of hospital in the recent past when his condition […]
India on Monday welcomed the result of the presidential election in the Maldives with early reports showing that the joint opposition candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih of the Maldivian Democratic Party has beaten incumbent Yameen Abdul Gayoom. “We welcome the successful completion of the third presidential election process in the Maldives which, according to preliminary information, […]
Thirty people, including women and children were rescued in Jammu and Kashmir during a flash flood in Kathua district, police said on Monday. These people were marooned in different parts of the district following heavy rains. They were rescued after a night-long operation in Billawar, Nagri, Jakhole and Chabbe Chak among others, a senior police […]
Global engineering services company L&T Technology Services Limited (LTTS) on Monday said it had won a multi-year deal to provide digital content management services to a leading European technology companys industrial products segment. The deal is expected to run for a period of five years with an aggregate revenue potential of $40 million, covering Engineering […]
The Election Commission of Maldives on Monday declared opposition candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih of the Maldivian Democratic Party as the winner of the presidential election in the country that has been gripped by political upheaval. The Commission spokesman Ahmed Akram said that Solih obtained 134,616 or 58.3 per cent of the votes polled, as per […]
India will be focusing on a multilateral agenda at the high-level UN General Assembly (UNGA) session that begins on Tuesday and let Pakistan be a “one-trick pony” on Kashmir if it wants to, India’s Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin has said. The UN works best on the basis of multilateralism and “India’s positions based on partnerships […]
Petrol retail rates finally breached the Rs 90 mark in Mumbai by touching Rs 90.08 per litre here on Monday, but stood much higher elsewhere in the state, industry officials said. Federation of Maharashtra Petroleum Dealers Association (FAMPEDA) President Uday Lodh said that the new rate became effective after a hike of 11 paise effected […]
A court in Haryana has sent two of the main accused in the gang rape case of a 19-year-old college student to four days police custody, police said on Monday. The Haryana Police’s Special Investigating Team (SIT) on Sunday arrested the two main accused, Pankaj and Manish. Both were on the run for 11 days […]