Srinagar, March 28 (IANS) One person was killed and three others were injured in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district Friday when some unidentified gunmen wearing army uniforms stopped a jeep on the Jammu-Pathankot National Highway and shot its occupants, police said. Gunmen later escaped in the same vehicle.
Geneva, March 27 (IANS) UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) members should vote for a resolution calling on the UN’s human rights office to probe allegations of war crimes by all sides during the final months of Sri Lanka’s civil war, Human Rights Watch has said. The Sri Lankan government has failed to seriously respond to two […]
New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) The Congress Wednesday repeated its promise to provide quotas in private sector for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes if it returns to power after the general elections. Industry leaders said it is just a populist promise and there is nothing new in it. “Congress’s manifesto demanding private sector reservation […]
Mumbai, March 25 (IANS) A benchmark index of Indian equities markets was trading flat at 42.01 points or 0.19 percent down during the pre-noon session Tuesday. Good buying was observed in the consumer durables and capital goods sectors while heavy selling pressure was seen in oil and gas sector. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the […]
New York, March 24 (IANS) While injuries are found to be the leading cause of death for US citizens younger than 45, the role of alcohol that often lead to those injuries is vastly underreported in the country, a study claims. Death certificates greatly underreported the role of alcohol in traffic deaths between 1999 and 2009. […]