A fresh batch of 590 pilgrims left Jammu on Monday for the ongoing Amarnath Yatra. “Another batch of 590 pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas at 5.45 a.m., in an escorted convoy of 16 vehicles for the Kashmir Valley,” officials said here. So far this year, 2.54 lakh devotees have performed the pilgrimage inside […]
Deadly clashes took place across Venezuela disrupting an election for a controversial constitutional assembly called by President Nicolas Maduro which according to the opposition would turn the country into a dictatorship, the media reported. A key opposition leader Henrique Capriles has confirmed that at least 14 people were killed in the nationwide clashes that began […]
A fire broke out at the Shastri Bhawan on Monday due to a short circuit in an air conditioner (AC), an official said here. “The fire broke out on the seventh floor of the building at 9.42 a.m. Five fire tenders rushed to the spot and it was doused,” the fire service official told IANS. […]
Ahead of crucial peace talks between the BJP-RSS leadership and the CPI-M to stem the violence here that led to a murder of an RSS worker, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday peremptorily asked the media to leave the venue. The meeting was being held at the state-owned Mascot Hotel here. The first to […]
A Malaysian court on Friday announced that the trial for the murder of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, will begin on October 2. Shah Alam High Court judge Justice Azmi Ariffin set the date for the trial, reports The Malaysian Star daily. He said plea from both the accused […]
Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat will arrive in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday to visit forward positions on the Line of Control (LoC), Defence Ministry officials said. General Rawat would also chair a security review meeting here. “After chairing the security review meeting, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) is likely to visit some […]
As the BRICS security meet began here in Beijing on Friday, Indias National Security Advisor Ajit Doval said the “vital” issues discussed at the event and its outcome will have an “impact” on the main summit in September. “It is great we are discussing vital issues that will have an impact on the next summit […]
A small batch of 346 pilgrims left here on Friday to perform the ongoing Amarnath Yatra. Friday’s number of pilgrims is the lowest ever since the 40-day long yatra to the Himalayan cave shrine began on June 29. “Already over 2.50 lakh pilgrims have performed this year’s yatra which will conclude on August 7,” officials […]
A day after Nitish Kumar took oath as Bihar Chief Minister at the head of a JD-U-BJP government after dumping the Grand Alliance, he is confident of proving his majority in the assembly on Friday, party leaders said here. The Janata Dal-United leaders said Nitish Kumar was “calm and cool” and spent the early morning […]
The Executive Council of Dubai and China’s Huawei Consumer Business Group sealed on Wednesday a partnership that will see “Dubai Font” as a standard pre-loaded font in the mobile operating system (OS) from the Chinese giant. The signing was attended by Ahmad bin Amer Al Mahri, Assistant Secretary General of Dubai’s Executive Council and Jiao […]