Islamabad, ,1/7: At least seven persons were killed and 20 injured after two overspeeding buses collided in Pakistan’s Sindh province, officials said. A police official confirmed that the accident took place on Friday, the second day of Eid. “One passenger coach was coming to Karachi from Lahore while the other one was…
Kolkata, 1/7: West Bengal Governor Dr CV Ananda Bose is likely to visit the violence-hit areas of Dinhata in Cooch Behar district on Saturday, where a man was killed during an incident of firing on June 27 ahead of the panchayat elections, an official source said. Bose, who is on a trip to the northern…
Ahmedabad, 30/6: Gujarat will host four meetings of G20 in the first two weeks of July, including a meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors of G20 countries, an official said on Friday. The meetings will take place in Surat, Kevadia and Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad, the official said.
Washington DC, 30/6: Alan Arkin, a versatile and prolific American actor who thrived in both comic and dramatic roles and won an Oscar for playing a heroin-using grandfather in the 2006 film Little Miss Sunshine, has died at 89, Variety reported on Friday, citing a statement from his family. Arkin died at his home in…
Java, 30/6: A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Java on Friday evening, the country’s geophysics agency (BMKG) said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties and no tsunami warning was issued. BMKG said the medium-sized quake, which hit at a depth of 25 kilometers (15 miles), was felt in…
Mumbai, 30/6: Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT) will back the central government’s push for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), sources told India Today on Friday. Party leader Sanjay Raut said the party’s line of thinking has always been to have a UCC but the final decision will be made after the draft has been made….
Finland, 30/6: Finland’s economy minister Vilhelm Junnila resigned on Friday after just 10 days in office, the nationalist Finns Party said, over earlier statements he had made linked to Nazis. “For the continuation of the government and the reputation of Finland, I see that it is impossible for me to continue as a…
Jaipur, 30/6: With political parties trying to tap social media influencers in the election season, the Rajasthan government has come out with a first-of-its-kind policy to give advertisements to those with a significant following on platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram along with print and electronic media. On June 26, the Ashok Gehlot government…
Saharanpur, 30/6: A man has been arrested in connection with a threatening post on social media against Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad who was shot at by unidentified assailants two days ago, police said on Friday. A bullet grazed Aazad’s abdomen when unidentified assailants opened fire at his car in Saharanpur district’s Deoband…
Mumbai, 30/6: A 24-year-old woman was allegedly sexually harassed by an unidentified man on a local train here, police said. The incident took place between Charni Road and Grant Road stations of the Western Railway on the night of June 23, said a police official on Thursday. The woman approached the Railway…
