Manipur, 23/6: A group of armed men, who sneaked from Yaingangpokpi (YKPI) in Manipur’s Imphal East district and moved towards the hills on Friday afternoon, fired from automatic weapons towards Urangpat and Gwaltabi villages, officials said. Security forces columns, which were immediately deployed in these “vacant” villages, responded cautiously to avoid any collateral damage. …
Darjeeling, 23/6: A BJP mandal office in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district was gutted in a fire around 1.45 am on Friday. The blaze in the party’s office in Siliguri’s Dabgram area was doused by local BJP supporters of the area with the help of a fire tender around 3 am, police said. BJP’s Siliguri…
Mumbai, ,23/6: Team India’s squads for West Indies Tests and ODI series have been announced. “” Veteran batter Cheteshwar Pujara and senior pacer Umesh Yadav have been dropped from India’s Test squad for West Indies tour. Batter Yashasvi Jaiswal and seamer Mukesh Kumar got maiden call-ups in Test squad. Below is the ODI…
J&K, 23/6:The Indian Army and Jammu and Kashmir police, in a joint operation on Friday, killed four terrorists in Kala Jungle of the Machhal sector in Kupwara. The police said the terrorists were attempting to enter India from the Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK).
Bhopal, 23/6: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Thursday staged a sit-in to protest the demolition of the houses of some tribal families at Rapura village in Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh. A forest ranger was subsequently suspended by the authorities.I came to know that the houses of tribals and others were demolished with the…
New Delhi, 22/6: The International Monetary Fund has reached its target of making $100 billion in special drawing rights available for vulnerable countries, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told a summit held in Paris on Thursday. Rich countries agreed in 2021 to rechannel some of their unused IMF special drawing rights, an international reserve currency, to…
New Delhi, 22/6: In a significant decision, the Delhi High Court has upheld a commercial court judgement that stated that awards passed by unilaterally appointed arbitrators are not executableIt is seen as an important development in arbitration and alternate dispute resolution in India as execution of such an award was refused by Commercial Court even…
Tripura, 22/6: The Tripura government has approved allotment of a Type-IV bungalow for 91-year-old Lakshmi Singh, wife of state’s first chief minister Sachindra Lal Singh, an official said on Thursday. Singh’s wife had recently requested Chief Minister Manik Saha for a residence since she did not have one. “When the request of 91-year-old Mrs…
Washington DC, 22/6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden will on Thursday announce a mega deal on the purchase of General Atomics MQ-9 “Reaper” armed drones by India, the White House has said, a move which would further bolster India’s national security and surveillance capabilities not only in the Indian Ocean but…
Mumbai, 22/6: The merger between Zee Entertainment and the Indian unit of Japan’s Sony will go through, “whether or not” he is the CEO of the merged company, Punit Goenka told The Economic Times in an interview. The markets regulator has imposed a one-year ban on Zee Entertainment’s Chairman Subhash Chandra and CEO Goenka for…
