Nepal, 16/5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday offered prayers at the sacred Maya Devi temple here in Nepal on the occasion of Buddha Purnima. He was accompanied by his Nepalese counterpart Sher Bahadur Deuba during his visit to the historic temple, the birth place of Gautam Buddha. “Beginning the Nepal visit…
New Delhi, 16/5: A meeting of AAP MLAs with Delhi chief minister and party’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal over the BJP’s “bulldozer politics” began here on Monday morning. The meeting being held at chief minister’s residence was attended by almost all the ruling Aam Aadmi Party MLAs in Delhi, the party sources said….
California, 16/5: One person was dead and four others in “critical” condition after a shooting at a church near Los Angeles, law enforcement said Sunday, just one day after a gunman killed 10 people at a grocery store in New York state. Parishioners were attending a banquet following a morning church service when…
Korea, 16/5: Kim Jong Un slammed North Korea’s pandemic response and ordered the army to help distribute medicine, state media said Monday, as the country said 50 people had died since first reporting an outbreak of Covid-19. More than a million people have been sickened by what Pyongyang is referring to as “fever”,…
Mumbai, 16/5: Asia’s richest man Gautam Adani’s group on Sunday said it has clinched a deal to acquire a controlling stake in Holcim Ltd’s businesses in India for $10.5 billion, marking the ports-to-energy conglomerate’s entry into the cement sector. Adani has in the last couple of years diversified beyond the core business of…
New Delhi, 15/5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sports minister Anurag Thakur and the country’s first individual gold medal winner at the Olympics, Abhinav Bindra on Sunday led the nation in hailing the men’s badminton team for winning a historic maiden title in Thomas Cup World team badminton championships in Bangkok. India scripted history…
Bangalore, 15/5: Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment A Narayanaswamy dismissed the possibility of Karnataka ever having a ‘Dalit CM’. Criticising the manner in which some Dalit leaders were treated in the state, he said that “whoever dreams of having a Dalit CM in the state is mad”. Speaking to reporters,…
New Delhi, 15/5: The Congress on Sunday announced wide-ranging organisational reforms to make the party battle-ready for the next round of assembly and Lok Sabha polls, stressing on wider representation to those under 50 years of age and enforcing ‘one person, one post’ and ‘one family, one ticket’ rules with riders. In its Udaipur…
Change, 15/5: The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) has split with a breakaway group, claiming to be the ‘real’ organisation, appointing Rajesh Chauhan as the new chief. Naresh Tikait has been removed from the president’s post and so has BKU spokesman Rakesh Tikait. The development took place on the death anniversary of BKU founder…
New Delhi, 15/5: Public sector banks reported over 51 per cent dip in the amount involved in frauds to Rs 40,295.25 crore during the financial year ended March 2022, the Reserve Bank of India has said. The 12 PSBs (Public Sector Banks) had reported frauds worth Rs 81,921.54 crore in preceding fiscal 2020-21,…
