Washington DC, 22/1: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he is confident of a “good trade deal” with India, adding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a “fantastic leader” and a great friend. “I have great respect for your Prime Minister. He’s a fantastic man and a friend of mine. We are going to…
Bangalore, 23/9: The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday stayed the Karnataka government’s recent decision to cap the maximum price chargeable for movie tickets at ₹200. Justice Ravi V Hosmani passed the interim order on petitions filed by Multiplex Association of India and movie producers challenging the State government’s decision. The petitioners had challenged the…
Mumbai, 6/7: Shikhar Dhawan was on Wednesday named India captain for the three-match ODI series against the West Indies, beginning on July 22 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Regular skipper Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya and Rishabh Pant have been rested for the series. The senior selection committee of the BCCI…
Jaipur, 18/8: Many hospitals in Jaipur including C K Birla Hospital and Monilek Hospital received bomb threat e-mails at 7 am on Sunday. The police team and bomb disposal squad reached the hospitals immediately after getting the information.
Dhaka, 17/11: Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was on Monday sentenced to death by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) after being tried in absentia over alleged crimes against humanity committed during last year’s student-led agitation that led to the fall of her Awami League government.
New Delhi, 24/4: The Congress on Sunday urged the Election Commission to disqualify Industries Minister Murugesh Nirani after authorities seized valuables allegedly from a sugar factory linked to him. Addressing a news conference, Congress leaders Gaurav Vallabh and Alka Lamba said, “On April 21, silver lamps, Rs 1.82 crore cash, Rs 37.64 lakh freebies and…
Tehran, 2/5: In a period of profound West Asian instability, Abdul Majid Hakeem Ilahi, Representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader in India, offers a defiant assessment of the country’s geopolitical stance. Describing the current conflict not as a clash of nations, but as a “personal war” driven by specific political interests, Illahi outlines Tehran’s readiness for…
Bhubaneswar: Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Odisha Assembly and Biju Janata Dal President Naveen Patnaik Friday expressed concerns over the mysterious disappearance of a merchant navy cadet from the state in the Pacific Ocean and sought the intervention of the Directorate General of Shipping and the Ministry of External Affairs.Taking to his X account, the BJD…
Sriharikota, 21/10: The first unmanned flight test for India’s human spaceflight mission, Gaganyaan, was successfully completed from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Saturday. The launch was preceded by nail-biting moments after ISRO put off the mission following the Automatic Launch Sequence holding back the vehicle due to observance of an “anomaly,”
New Delhi, 22/10: Cyclone ‘Tej’, brewing in the Arabian Sea, intensified into an extremely severe cyclonic storm on Sunday and is headed towards the Yemen-Oman coasts, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) . The cyclonic storm is predicted to move northwestwards and cross the Yemen-Oman coasts between Al Ghaidah (Yemen) and Salalah (Oman), close to the…
