Renowned Indian space scientist U.R. Rao passed away here in the early hours of Monday, said a space agency official. He was 85. “Rao passed away at his residence around 3 a.m., after prolonged illness and due to age-related health issues,” the official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) told IANS. Rao, who was […]
At least 20 people were killed on Monday in a suicide blast targeting the house of an Afghan politician here, police said. “The blast occurred near the house of Mohammad Mohaqiq, deputy to Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, in Golah-e-Dawakhana locality at around 6.50 a.m.,” a police official told Xinhua news agency. Tolo News, citing sources […]
A batch of 673 pilgrims on Monday left winter capital Jammu to perform the ongoing Amarnath Yatra. “Another batch of 673 yatris left Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas at 2.50 a.m. in an escorted convoy of 24 vehicles for the Valley today,” officials said here. Since the 40-day long Amarnath Yatra started on June 29, Monday’s […]
India on Thursday rejected China’s demand for withdrawal of troops from the Doklam border area, saying the pull out should be from both sides for a dialogue to be held for resolving the month long military stand-off at the tri-junction in Sikkim sector. On its part, China kept up its belligerence saying Indian withdrawal is […]
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday recommended a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the multi-crore Gomti Riverfront Project, one of the dream projects of his predecessor Akhilesh Yadav. A senior official from the state Home Department said that the file recommending a CBI probe into the matter had been […]
Most of the cross-voting in presidential election favoured NDA candidate Ram Nath Kovind, but significantly in Rajasthan, where the BJP is in power, opposition-backed Congress nominee Meira Kumar was the beneficiary of cross-voting. In Rajasthan, where the Congress won 24 seats in the last assembly polls, Meira Kumar got 34 votes, which are believed to […]
The Syrian Parliament on Thursday sacked its speaker, Hadiya Khalaf Abbas, over her “lack of performance”. The Syrian parliament members assembled on Thursday evening in an emergency session to discharge the speaker of the parliament who has been in her post since June last year, Xinhua reported. Abbas was the first woman to claim the […]
Taking a cue from global markets the key Indian equity market indices on Thursday opened higher. The Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE, which had closed at 31,955.35 points on Wednesday, opened higher at 32,033.82 points. Minutes into trading, it was quoting at 32,015.29 points, up by 59.94 points, or 0.19 per cent. At the […]
Three persons were killed and several houses and shops were damaged on Thursday in a cloudburst in the hilly Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The cloudburst hit Thathri town after midnight triggering a flash flood in the area, the police said. “We have recovered three dead bodies from the debris of the […]
A total of five people, including four civilians and a policeman, were killed on Tuesday in an attack by the IS militants at a village near Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk. The extremists early in the morning stormed the village of Chragh near the town of Debis, some 40 km west of Kirkuk, and shot […]