Chennai, 20/1: For the third year in a row, Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi on Tuesday walked out of the Legislative Assembly without reading the customary address prepared by the State government on the first day of the sessions. The Governor cited not playing the national anthem along with the Tamil Thai Vaazthu (State…
New Delhi, 19/1: With tensions between Abu Dhabi and Riyadh over Yemen escalating, India and the United Arab Emirates signed a Letter of Intent for a strategic defence partnership agreement on Monday, just four months after a similar pact between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan raised hackles in New Delhi.Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted UAE President…
New Delhi, 19/1: Nitin Nabin is set to become the BJP national president as he emerged as the sole candidate for the top party post, senior BJP leader and returning officer K Laxman announced on Monday. In a statement, he said 37 sets of nomination papers were filed in favour of Nabin as the BJP…
Kolkatta, 19/1: A court in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Monday granted bail to Satadru Dutta, the organiser of the botched-up Messi event in the city last month.Dutta was arrested on December 13 last year over alleged mismanagement in the Salt Lake stadium event on that day
Kabul, 19/1:Several people were killed in a blast in Afghan capital Kabul’s Shahr-e-Naw area, the Taliban interior ministry said on Monday. Acording to preliminary reports, a number of people were killed and injured,” Interior Ministry spokesperson Abdul Mateen Qani told Reuters, adding that details would be released later.
Washington DC, 19/1:President Donald Trump told Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere he no longer felt an “obligation to think purely of peace” after the Norwegian Nobel Committee did not award him the Nobel Peace Prize, as he repeated his demand for control of Greenland in a letter seen by Reuters. The Norwegian prime minister’s…
Spain, 19/1:A high-speed train derailed and smashed into another oncoming train in southern Spain on Sunday, pushing the second train off the tracks in a collision that police sources confirmed to Reuters had killed at least 21 people. The first train was traveling to Madrid from Málaga, on the country’s southern coast, and was privately…
New Delhi, 19/1: Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar has been unable to meet Congress top leader Rahul Gandhi as the latter is busy with other engagements and his appointment with the leader of the Opposition yet to be confirmed The deputy CM is likely to return to Bengaluru on Monday. Shivakumar, who arrived in…
New Delhi, 18/1: President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan will visit India on Monday to explore new frontiers in further boosting the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries. His visit to India comes amid the volatile situation in the Middle-East arising out of a sharp decline in…
New Delhi, 18/1: Rajya Sabha MP and senior lawyer Kapil Sibal on Sunday warned smaller parties against aligning with the BJP saying that the saffron party’s strategy is to join their bandwagon to usurp power and then marginalise them. Sibal said the strategy was successful in Bihar where it first aligned with JD(U) and has…
