New Delhi, 16/5: The Indian Army’s Eastern command chief on Monday said China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is engaged in infrastructure capacity enhancement across the international border in Arunachal Pradesh. General Officer Commanding-in Chief of the Eastern command, Lt Gen R P Kalita, however, said the Indian side is also continuously upgrading its…
Colombo, 16/5: Crisis-hit Sri Lanka has run out of petrol and is unable to find dollars to finance essential imports, the new prime minister said Monday in an address to the nation. “We have run out of petrol… At the moment, we only have petrol stocks for a single day,” Ranil Wickremesinghe said,…
Bengaluru, 16/5: The Karnataka government has appointed IAS officer C H Pratap Reddy as the Commissioner of Police in Bengaluru. Reddy, a 1991 batch officer, was the Additional Director of Police, Law and Order, before this stint. He replaces Kamal Pant, who is designated as DGP Recruitment
Bhubaneswar, 16/5:The Odisha Mining Corporation has launched several projects to promote education in presence of Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik on its 67th foundation day. The foundation day was celebrated at Convention Centre in Lok Seva Bhawan. The Chief Minister launched the OMC Anthem on the occasion. It signed an MoU with Odisha Adarsha…
New Delhi, 15/5: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday urged the Centre to take steps to ensure the security of Kashmiri Pandits in the wake of the last week killing of a government servant from the community. Rahul Bhat, who had got the job of a clerk under the special employment package for…
Nepal, 16/5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday offered prayers at the sacred Maya Devi temple here in Nepal on the occasion of Buddha Purnima. He was accompanied by his Nepalese counterpart Sher Bahadur Deuba during his visit to the historic temple, the birth place of Gautam Buddha. “Beginning the Nepal visit…
New Delhi, 16/5: A meeting of AAP MLAs with Delhi chief minister and party’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal over the BJP’s “bulldozer politics” began here on Monday morning. The meeting being held at chief minister’s residence was attended by almost all the ruling Aam Aadmi Party MLAs in Delhi, the party sources said….
California, 16/5: One person was dead and four others in “critical” condition after a shooting at a church near Los Angeles, law enforcement said Sunday, just one day after a gunman killed 10 people at a grocery store in New York state. Parishioners were attending a banquet following a morning church service when…
Korea, 16/5: Kim Jong Un slammed North Korea’s pandemic response and ordered the army to help distribute medicine, state media said Monday, as the country said 50 people had died since first reporting an outbreak of Covid-19. More than a million people have been sickened by what Pyongyang is referring to as “fever”,…
Mumbai, 16/5: Asia’s richest man Gautam Adani’s group on Sunday said it has clinched a deal to acquire a controlling stake in Holcim Ltd’s businesses in India for $10.5 billion, marking the ports-to-energy conglomerate’s entry into the cement sector. Adani has in the last couple of years diversified beyond the core business of…
