Delhi: Days after BJP pulled out of the PDP-led coalition regime in Jammu and Kashmir, BJP chief Amit Shah will be on a day-long visit of the Jammu region and also address a rally and celebrate Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Balidan-Divas in a big way. BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir unit chief Ravinder Raina said that Shah […]
Dhaka: At least 16 people were killed and 40 others injured when a bus hit a roadside tree and overturned in Bangladesh’s Gaibandha’s Palashbari Upazila district on Saturday. The accident occurred on the Rangpur-Dhaka Highway in the Bashkata (Gorurhat) area near the BRAC intersection around 0430 hrs, said Govindganj Highway Police Officer in-charge (OC) Akhtaruzzaman. […]
Delhi: The South Asia Media Defenders Network (SAMDEN), while denouncing the brutal killing of senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari, urged the NHRC and the Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission to “push for swift investigation” into the case, media reports said. Bukhari, was killed along with his two PSOs in Press Enclave here in Srinagar […]
Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday stressed the need for export-led growth for India to become a 5 trillion dollars economy, saying that the country’s share in world trade need to rise to at least 3.4 per cent from the current 1.6 per cent and states must be made active partners in this effort. […]
Washington: The death toll in Nicaragua during two months of anti-government unrest has risen to 212, media reports said quoting Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. “Nicaragua has not fulfilled its international obligations to respect, protect and guarantee human rights in the context of the social protests that began on April 18,” the rights body said […]
An Australian court on Wednesday sentenced an Indian couple Sofia and her lover Arun Kamalasanan (both from Kerala) for more than 20 years in jail, for murdering Sofia’s husband Sam Abraham, media reports said. Sam was found dead in his home in Epping in Melbourne on October 13, 2015 and his death was initially thought to be because of […]
Delhi: Shiv Sena’s party chief Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday blamed the BJP for the “worsening of the situation in Kashmir” and alleged that the BJP is now conveniently blaming everything on Mehbooba Mufti. In an editorial in party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ also says that after demonetisation terrorism and infiltration has grown manifolds. “After creating lawlessness in […]
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gave birth to a baby girl in an Auckland hospital on Thursday, becoming only the second world leader to do so while in office, media. It was the first child for the 37-year-old and her 40-year-old partner Clarke Gayford. “I’m sure we’re going through all of the emotions new […]
Srinagar: In what could turn out to be a major development, Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) General Secretary, Ram Madhav said that there is definitive progress about talks with the Hurriyat. In a free flowing interview with the Hindustan Times after the BJP pulled out support from ruling alliance with PDP, in response to a question that […]
Delhi: A Hindu-Muslim couple was humiliated by a passport officer in Lucknow by refusing to accept their marriage and asking the man, who was a Muslim, to convert to Hinduism, The Indian Expres reported. Following the incident the couple, later, took to Twitter to convey their ordeal to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) head Sushma […]
