New Delhi, 22/10: Cyclone ‘Tej’, brewing in the Arabian Sea, intensified into an extremely severe cyclonic storm on Sunday and is headed towards the Yemen-Oman coasts, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) . The cyclonic storm is predicted to move northwestwards and cross the Yemen-Oman coasts between Al Ghaidah (Yemen) and Salalah (Oman), close to the…
New Delhi, 22/10: Any expectation that conflicts and terrorism can be contained in their impact is no longer tenable, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Sunday. In an address at an event, Jaishankar, delving into geopolitical upheavals witnessing the world, said the ripple impact of what is taking place right now in the Middle…
New Delhi, 22/10: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday objected to the Narendra Modi government “turning” civil servants and soldiers to “political workers” and “marketing agents” of the ruling BJP, saying the whole administration has officially become “pracharak” of BJP. Kharge’s stinging criticism in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi came against the backdrop…
New Delhi, 22/10: An IAF C-17 flight carrying nearly 6.5 tonnes of medical aid and 32 tonnes of disaster relief material for the people of Palestine departed from India for El-Arish airport in Egypt today. The material includes essential life-saving medicines, surgical items, tents, sleeping bags, tarpaulins, sanitary utilities, water purification tablets among other necessary…
Dharmasala,22/10-Those iconic stadium steeples, the Dauladhar mountain range in the background, the thin air, the perpetual dance of sun and shadow followed by an eerie moon. In these poetry-inspiring conditions, the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association stadium will become the theatre for a tournament-defining contest as India and New Zealand run into each other with a…
Kathmandu,22/10′:A 6.1 magnitude earthquake on Sunday hit Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal. According to the National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre, the earthquake with epicentre in Dhading district was recorded at 7:39 am. There was no report of any death or damage resulting from the tremor.
Kolkata, 21/10: The Trinamool Congress has decided to maintain distance from the controversy surrounding its MP Mahua Moitra, who has been facing allegations of taking bribes for raising questions in Parliament. Darshan Hiranandani, the CEO of real estate-to-energy group Hiranandani, who allegedly paid Moitra to raise questions in Parliament about Adani Group, recently claimed in…
Jaipur, 21/10: The Congress has released its first list of 33 candidates for the Rajasthan Assembly elections to be held on November 25. The list includes the names of Ashok Gehlot, Sachin Pilot, C P Joshi, Govind Singh Dotasra among others.
New Delhi, 21/10: A man was arrested on Saturday in connection with the killing of a woman, whose body was found near a Municipal Corporation of Delhi-run school in West Delhi’s Tilak Nagar area, according to police. Gurpreet has been arrested and is being questioned to ascertain the identity of the woman and details linked…
Sriharikota, 21/10: The first unmanned flight test for India’s human spaceflight mission, Gaganyaan, was successfully completed from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Saturday. The launch was preceded by nail-biting moments after ISRO put off the mission following the Automatic Launch Sequence holding back the vehicle due to observance of an “anomaly,”
