Mumbai, 9/7:Billionaire Gautam Adani’s group on Saturday confirmed its entry into the race to acquire telecom spectrum, which it said will be used to create a private network to support its businesses from airports to power. “As India prepares to roll out next generation of 5G services through this auction, we are one…
Colombo, 9/7: Ranil Wickremesinghe has announced his resignation from the post of Sri Lanka Prime Minister. Wickremesinghe’s resignation comes hours after his office announced that he was willing to resign to make way for a new unity government. Earlier President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence when it was mobbed by protesters.
UP, 9/7:Days after a five-year-old student of a government school here got locked in a classroom, the head teacher of the school was suspended and action initiated against five other faculty members, officials said on SaturdayThe student, Aditya, was locked in the classroom on Thursday. He was later rescued by his family members, who had…
UP, 9/8:Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav’s wife Sadhna Gupta passed away Saturday. She was undergoing treatment for a lung infection in Gurugram’s Medanta Hospital. Sadhna, Mulayam Singh’s second wife, was 20 years younger than him.
Colombo, 9/7: Sri Lanka’s beleaguered President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence in the capital Saturday, a top defence source told AFP, before television footage showed protesters demanding the leader’s resignation storming the compound. “The President was escorted to safety,” the source said, adding that troops fired in the air to prevent angry crowds…
Washington DC, 9/8: Less than three months ago, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, struck a blockbuster $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. He proclaimed that the company had “tremendous potential.” Since then, Musk has changed his tune. He sniped at Twitter’s top executives. He unleashed tweets taunting the company’s board. He complained…
New Delhi, 9/7: Rescue operations resumed at the Amarnath cave shrine on Saturday where 15 people were killed and over 40 injured in a cloudburst Friday evening. Authorities have temporarily suspended the Yatra from both Baltal and Pahalgam base camps. Teams of NDRF, SDRF, BSF, CRPF, Army, police and ITBP resumed rescue operation with…
Kashmir, 8/7: At least 10 pilgrims died and 40 others were missing after a cloudburst hit Baltal base camp of Shri Amarnath yatra in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Friday. Officials said the cloud burst occurred at around 5:30 pm and it triggered flash floods. Five pilgrims were rescued while around 40 people…
New Delhi, 8/7: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has asked Delhi minister Satyendar Jain’s wife Poonam Jain to be present before the agency next week while it extracts information from the digital devices seized in a money laundering case against him and others, officials said Friday. Poonam is required to be present before the…
New Delhi, 8/7: Condoling the demise of former Japanese premier Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said he dedicated his life to making the world a better place and as a mark of India’s deepest respect, one-day national mourning shall be observed on July 9. Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe, one…
