New Delhi, 1/9: Former vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar has shifted from his official residence to a private farmhouse in the Chhatarpur area of south Delhi, six weeks after he resigned from his post, according to officials. The farmhouse in the Gadaipur area of Chhatarpur belongs to INLD leader Abhay Chautala. An official told PTI that Dhankhar…
Tianjin, 1/9: The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on Monday strongly condemned the Pahalgam terror attack and concurred with India’s position that “double standards” in the fight against terrorism are unacceptable. The influential grouping listed its strong resolve to combat terrorism in a declaration that was unveiled at the end of its two-day annual summit at…
Kabul, 1/9: Hundreds are feared dead following a 6.0 magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan, in a mountainous area close to the border with Pakistan, local officials said on Monday. The quake hit the Jalalabad area around midnight local time. It was at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the German Research Center for…
New Delhi, 1/9: India and China are development partners, and not rivals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping agreed on Sunday, even as the two nations continued to have large numbers of soldiers deployed on both sides of the disputed boundary in Himalayas. Modi and Xi met in Tianjin in northern China but…
New Delhi, 31/8: Indian online gaming app Mobile Premier League (MPL) will sack about 60% of its local workforce as part of a major downsizing after the government banned paid games, said a company source with knowledge of the plan in the first such reaction to a new law Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government this…
New Delhi, 31/8: India Post has suspended all categories of mail operations destined to the US in the absence of clarity over new rules issued by the US Customs Department, an official statement said on Sunday. Earlier, the country’s postal department had temporarily suspended postal services for gifts valued above $100 due to the new…
New Delhi, 31/8: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has launched a strategic initiative that allows verified employers, including central government and private organisations, to connect with top talent from India’s most competitive examinations, officials saidon Thursday. UPSC’s ‘Pratibha Setu’, which was earlier known as Public Disclosure Scheme (PDS), provides access to the details of…
Cuttack, 31/8: In a sad piece of news, renowned music director and singer Abhijit Majumdar unwell.He is admitted to a private hospital in CDA.His condition is said to be critical.
Bengaluru, 31/8: Citizens will have to pay more during property transactions as the registration fee has been hiked from 1% to 2%, a move estimated to generate an additional Rs 2,500 crore for the cash-crunched government. The hike will come into effect from August 31, the government announced on Saturday.
Gopeshwar, 31/8: A motorable bridge on the Jyotirmath-Malari highway in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district got washed away due to heavy rains, severing connectivity to more than a dozen villages in the border area of the Niti Valley. Heavy rains in the upstream swelled the seasonal Tamak stream, and its gushing waters damaged the bridge around 2…
