Islamabad, 30/7: At least 35 people were killed and over 150 others injured on Sunday when a suicide bomber triggered a powerful blast at a hardline Islamic political party’s meeting in a restive tribal district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan. The explosion took place at 4 pm at the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) workers’…
New Delhi, 30/7: India’s semiconductor mission is not just about meeting domestic requirements but also aimed at contributing to global demand for trusted manufacturing, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Sunday. In an address at a conference, he told top executives of leading global semiconductor firms that their decisions and relationships have…
Mumbai, 30/7: Tyre maker CEAT Ltd has lined up a capex of around Rs 750 crore for the ongoing fiscal, mostly to be deployed in increasing production capacity of agri-radial tyres at its Ambernath plant in Maharashtra, according to the company MD & CEO Arnab Banerjee. The company expects volume of its supplies…
Sriharikota, 30/7: ISRO has lined up a series of activities over the next few months as it gears up for “exciting” missions including a GSLV launch this year, Chairman S Somanath said here on Sunday. The space agency, in a precise textbook launch today, successfully placed seven Singaporean satellites into intended orbits on…
Thane, 30/7: Nearly 50 passengers travelling in a civic transport bus had a narrow escape after the vehicle caught fire in Maharashtra’s Thane city on Sunday morning, an official said. No one was injured in the incident, Thane Municipal Corporation’s disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi told PTI. The Thane…
Colombia, 30/7: An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck near the northern coast of Colombia on Saturday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was 10 km (6.2 miles) deep, GFZ said
Kochi, 29/7: The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) on Saturday rescued eight fishermen who got stranded in a sinking boat in the mid sea, 21 nautical miles west of Kochi. ICG Ship Arnvesh and Coast Guard ALH undertook the rescue operation onboard sinking Indian Fishing Boat (IFB) Mariyam, an ICG statement here said. On…
New Delhi, 29/7: Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting Anurag Thakur, on Saturday, slammed the Trinamool leadership in West Bengal and claimed that the time for the Mamata Banerjee-led government is running out, slowly. Thakur’s statement adds to earlier comments by BJP’s regional leaders, who claimed that the Trinamool government will not last longer than…
Sambalpur, 29/7: : Shri O P Singh, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) visited Hyderabad to meet HEMM operator Shri Dolamani Pradhan, who is recovering at a super-specialty private hospital in Hyderabad, after sustaining serious injuries in an accident while working in a project. The CMD enquired in detail about the recovery status of…
Kolkata, 29/7: Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya was on Saturday afternoon admitted to a city-based hospital after he complained of breathing complications, officials said. Bhattacharya (79) was immediately put on mechanical ventilator support at the critical care unit of the private hospital where he was rushed from his Palm Avenue residence via a…
