J&K, 16/8: In yet another targeted killing, a Kashmiri Pandit (Hindu) farmer was shot dead while his brother was injured after militants fired upon them in Chotigam village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district Tuesday. Reports said the siblings were working in their orchards when militants riding a motorcycle fired upon them from a close…
Patna, 16/8: The two-member ‘Mahagathbandhan’ government in Bihar comprising Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Prasad Yadav expanded its Cabinet to 31 on Tuesday. Tejashwi Yadav-helmed RJD bagged 16 berths in the Cabinet while Nitish’s party got 11. Tej Pratap Yadav, RJD leader and brother of Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, was…
Kashmir, 16/8: At least seven Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel were killed while over two dozen were injured when a bus they were travelling in met with an accident near Chandanwari in Pahalgam area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Tuesday. Reports said the vehicle, carrying 37 ITBP jawans and two J&K police…
New Delhi, 16/8: India was on Tuesday suspended by world governing body FIFA for “undue influence from third parties” and stripped the country of the right to host the Under-17 Women’s World Cup, scheduled for October. This is the first time the All India Football Federation (AIFF) has been banned by FIFA in…
Washington DC, 16/8: US President Joe Biden believes that the India-US relationship is essential to global peace, stability and economic resilience, his top trade negotiator has said, noting that the two countries are now better placed to work on tough issuesPresident Biden believes that the relationship between our two great democracies is essential to global…
Gujarat, 15/8: All the eleven convicts sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2002 post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape case on Monday walked out of the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy, an official said. A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Mumbai on January…
Pune, 15/8: Serum Institute of India’s (SII) Chief Executive Officer Adar Poonawalla said he expects an Omicron-specific vaccine in the country in six months, SII, the world’s biggest vaccine maker, produces AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine under the brand name Covishield. SII did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
New Delhi, 15/8: The Indian Tricolour was unfurled at the edge of space at an altitude of nearly 30 km by a BalloonSAT launched by an organisation promoting awareness about space sciences in the country. SpaceKidz, the Chennai-based organisation, shared a video on its social media platforms of the Indian Tricolour fluttering away…
Chilika, 15/8: INS Chilka, the Indian Navy’s premier training establishment, celebrated the 75th Anniversary of Independence Day with excitement and patriotic fervour as a part of the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. Cmde NP Pradeep, Naval Officer-in-Charge (Odisha) and Commanding Officer, INS Chilka laid a wreath at War Memorial, prior to review of the ceremonial…
Bangalore, 15/8: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday said he is “proud to be committed” to the ideology of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) even as he defended his government’s Independence Day advertisement that sidelines Jawaharlal Nehru. “Someone said Bommai is slave of RSS. I say I’ve bowed down to that ideology, principle…
