Geneva, 1/10: Russia on Friday vetoed a Western bid at the UN Security Council to condemn its annexations of Ukrainian territory but found no support, with China and India abstaining. Russia’s veto was a certainty but Western powers hoped to show Moscow’s isolation in its war and will now take the condemnation effort…
Chilika Banpur Police have rescued a minor victim girl from Chennai on Friday. Khordha SP Siddharth Kataria informed about this. The minor had been missing since last March and the police had been searching for her ever since. However, recently police got the information that the minor was in Chennai. Immediately on the instructions…
New Delhi, 30/9: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday apologised for the distorted map of India in his manifesto with parts of Jammu and Kashmir omitted. Re the troll storm on a manifesto map: No one does such things on purpose. A small team of volunteers made a mistake. We rectified it immediately & I…
New Delhi, 30/9: Prices of natural gas, which is used to generate electricity, make fertiliser and is converted into CNG to run automobiles, were on Friday hiked by a steep 40 per cent to record levels, in step with global firming up of energy rates. The rate paid for gas produced from old fields, which…
New Delhi, ,30/9: Congress presidential candidate Shashi Tharoor’s manifesto for the party election triggered a row on Friday as it showed a distorted map of India. Parts of Jammu and Kashmir were omitted from the map in Tharoor’s manifesto. However, the mistake was soon corrected.
Tehran, 30/9: Iran has arrested a woman who was shown eating out without a headscarf in an image that went viral on social media during the protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, her sister said Friday. The picture showed Donya Rad sitting in a traditional Tehran restaurant apparently eating breakfast, in the company of…
Bhubaneswar, 30/9: Chief mnister Naveen Patnaik today said that Road safety is a high priority area for the Government. He said this today at SAFE Convention organised by ‘Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers’ (SIAM) at hotel Swosti. He added that we have adopted a four-fold strategy to make our roads safer – by enforcement,…
New Delhi, 30/9:Congress presidential poll candidate Shashi Tharoor on Friday said he is aware of his underdog tag and talk of an ‘official candidate’ in some quarters but he has been told by the Gandhi family repeatedly that they are “neither directly nor indirectly” backing anyone. The Thiruvananthapuram MP, however, asserted that he remains convinced…
New Delhi, 30/9: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Friday pulled out of the Congress president race after Mallikarjun Kharge entered the poll fray. Singh said that he will back Kharge for the top Congress post. With, the battleground seems to clear for a direct fight between Shashi Tharoor and Kharge.
New Delhi, 30/9: Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge will file nomination for Congress president election on Friday afternoon, setting the stage for an electoral battle for supremacy in the party with senior party leader Shashi Tharoor. A third candidate Digvijaya Singh is also likely to file nominations though indications have emerged that…
