Mumbai, 2/9: Quota agitation leader Manoj Jarange-Patil has decided to break his hunger strike on Tuesday evening after the Maharashtra government agreed to most of the demands. Cabinet sub-committee head Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil offered fruit juice to him. “Please go to your villages…peacefully and safely,” he told the protesters.
Telengana, 2/9: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has suspended its MLC K Kavitha over “anti-party activities”. The party shared a statement in this regard on its X account. “The party leadership is taking this matter seriously as the recent behavior and ongoing anti-party activities of party MLC K. Kavitha are damaging the BRS party. Party President…
Chandigarh, 2/9: Punjab AAP MLA Harmeet Singh Dhillon Pathanmajra allegedly fled police custody on Tuesday while being taken to a local police station after his arrest, reports news agency ANI. He along with his accomplices fired at the police and even ran over one police officer. According to Punjab Police, one of the police personnel…
Washington DC, 2/9: US President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro on Monday sharply criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi following the latter’s meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin, China. Navarro called it “a shame” to see Modi “getting in bed with Xi…
Sydney, 2/9: Australia’s white-ball pace spearhead Mitchell Starc has retired from Twenty20 internationals to extend his career in test and one-day cricket. The 35-year-old left-armer retires with 79 wickets from 65 T20Is, second on the all-time list for Australia behind spinner Adam Zampa. “Test cricket is and has always been my highest priority,” he said…
New Delhi, 1/9: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday launched a scathing attack on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, claiming that the JD(U) chief used to talk about socialism and sang paeans of leaders like Ram Manohar Lohia but “fell into the laptop of BJP and RSS”, which will dump him in garbage. Addressing…
Kabul,1/9: One of Afghanistan’s worst earthquakes killed more than 800 people and injured at least 2,800, authorities said on Monday, as helicopters ferried the wounded to hospital after they were plucked from the rubble of homes being combed for survivors. The disaster is set to further stretch the resources of the war-torn nation’s Taliban administration,…
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…
