A four-member NIA team on Saturday visited Kokrajhar in Assam to take stock of the situation, a day after 14 people were killed in indiscriminate firing and grenade attack by a Bodo militant faction. National Investigation Agency (NIA) team was sent from the agency’s branch in Guwahati, Assam. However, they will wait for government orders […]
Speaking for the first time against cow vigilantes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said he felt “anguished” over incidents of vigilantism and has asked state governments to prepare a dossier of such “self-styled gau rakshaks”. Speaking at a Town Hall-style meeting here, Modi said: “Some people who indulge in anti-social activities in the night, […]
It was a cloudy Saturday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 29 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average. According to the weather office, humidity at 8.30 a.m. was 83 per cent and rainfall in the past 24 hours was 0.2 mm. “There will be a generally cloudy sky with light rains […]
At least four people — three pilgrims and one Ponywallah were killed and eight injured on Saturday morning in a landslide on old track to Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in Jammu region. A landslide hit the old track to the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in Katra district, police said. “At least 12 people were hit […]
With 7,700 Indian workers employed with Saudi companies facing a financial crisis, a senior official of the Gulf kingdom’s labour ministry held a meeting with India’s Consul General in Jeddah on Wednesday. “Director General of Branch of Ministry of Labour and Social Development in Makkah region, Abdullah Al-Olayan, held here today a meeting with Consul […]
As the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday finally took up discussion on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill, with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley moving it for consideration and passage, industry stakeholders welcomed the move but also expressed some concerns. Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram batted for 18 per cent GST rate during the debate. Here […]
iving a refreshing look to its Galaxy Note series ahead of the Apple event, Samsung has introduced an iris biometric scanner in its flagship Note 7 which, according to company officials, is the first globally. Announcing this at its Galaxy Note Unpacked 2016 here on Tuesday, Samsung said the Note 7 with curved display will […]
North Korea fired a ballistic missile into east waters from its west region, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said on Wednesday. The projectile was launched from South Hwanghae province around 7.50 a.m. (local time), Yonhap news agency quoted the JCS as saying. Further details are being analysed, the official said. The launch came […]
A new upcoming Marathi movie Page 4 is produced by our own Melbourne duo Shailesh Walimbe and Jaydeep Yeole. Astonishingly the pair and their friendship have an amazing story to tell. They met in a very different situation about 12 years ago. Shailesh was working as a bartender in the casino and Jaydeep was a […]
The CPI-M politburo, which had its two day meeting in Delhi, decided not to intervene in the appointment of Harvard University professor Gita Gopinath as an economic adviser to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan despite the objections raised by veteran leader V.S. Achuthanandan. Achuthanandan, in a letter, had expressed his displeasure to Communist Party of […]