Polling for the 68-seat Himachal Pradesh assembly in a single phase began amid tight security on Thursday, an election official said here. Voters across the state could be seen reaching polling stations even before polling started at 8 a.m. despite cold. “There is no report of any delay in starting the poll process,” Chief Electoral […]
Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha on Tuesday said that a detailed report has been sought from budget carrier IndiGo regarding the incident at Delhi airport last month, when a passenger was manhandled by the airline’s staff. The incident which took place on October 15 surfaced on Tuesday after a video showed […]
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday said it had seized nearly Rs 36.5 crore in demonetised currency and arrested nine persons here in its ongoing probe into the Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case. Following inputs, an NIA team seized the currency on Monday on Jai Singh Road near Connaught Place — a business […]
A day after Delhi witnessed its worst ‘air quality’ and ‘smog situation’ of the year, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said he wished to meet his Haryana and Punjab counterparts to find a solution to pollution in the National Capital Region. On Tuesday, a yellow blanket of smog hung heavily in the city sky, […]
After running a successful trial with few users, Twitter has finally rolled out its new 280-character limit virtually for all users. In September, Twitter launched a test that expanded the 140-character limit so that users could express themselves easily in a tweet. “Our goal was to make this possible while ensuring we keep the speed […]
Pakistan has confirmed that a diplomatic official of the Consulate General of Pakistan in Afghanistan’s eastern Jalalabad city was shot dead at a shop near his residence. Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua summoned the Afghan Charge d’Affaires to the Foreign Office to lodge a strong protest against this heinous act and demanded that the perpetrators of […]
Broadly positive global cues, along with healthy buying support for the capital goods and IT sectors pushed the key indices of the Indian equity markets higher during the morning trade session on Tuesday. At 9.30 a.m. the barometer 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) traded 73.96 points or 0.22 per cent higher. The wider 50-scrip Nifty of […]
Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel bin Ahmed al-Jubeir said that the country has zero tolerance towards corruption and extremism and dismissed speculation that the shock arrests of princes and ministers amounted to a grab of power by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the media reported. Saudi Arabia has a “zero tolerance policy on terrorism” and […]
At least 26 people were killed when a lone gunman wearing a ballistic vest and carrying a military-style rifle, opened fire on worshippers at a Baptist church in Texas, police said. The attack took place on Sunday in Sutherland Springs, some 45 km southeast of San Antonio. Law enforcement officials told The New York Times […]
Dineshwar Sharma, the Centres special representative for Kashmir, will arrive here on Monday on a five-day visit to start the multi-layered dialogue process. Official sources said the new interlocutor will stay in the Valley for three days while spend two days in the Jammu region to start the dialogue process with various political parties, socio-cultural […]