Chandigarh, Feb 17 (IANS) Six people were killed and five injured when their van rammed into a stationary truck in Haryana’s Hisar district on Monday, the police said. The accident happened near Rakhi Shahpur village when the victims were returning from a wedding. According to the police, the victims were[Read More…]
Beijing, Feb 17 (IANS) China’s central bank on Monday cut the interest rate on its medium-term loans by 10 basis points to 3.15 per cent amid attempts to reduce the economic impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the country where 70,548 people have been infected. The People’s Bank of[Read More…]
Chandigarh, Feb 17 (IANS) Former Haryana minister Chaudhary Khurshid Ahmed passed away on Monday at the age of 84. One of the tallest leaders from Mewat, Ahmed was elected to Haryana Vidhan Sabha five times and served as a minister in the state cabinet. He was also elected to Lok[Read More…]
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Kathmandu, Feb 17 (IANS) Nepal has officially proposed a review of the 1947 agreement among Nepal, India and Britain over the recruitment and deployment of Gurkha soldiers and their perks and facilities. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on February 12 sent a letter to London, seeking a review of the[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) The pollution level in the national capital on Monday stood in the “very poor” category as the Met forecast thunderstorm with lightning by Wednesday. The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) was at 303, said the Centre-run System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research[Read More…]
Kanpur, Feb 17 (IANS) The Regional Pollution Control Board of Uttar Pradesh has ordered 248 tanneries in Jajmau area of Kanpur to stop their operations from February 19 till further orders, without assigning any reason. The tanneries, which remained closed for a period of 13 months on the charge of[Read More…]
Bareilly, Feb 17 (IANS) A national-level shooter, Lavi Yadav, was found dead hanging from a ceiling fan, after reportedly failing to get a job Reports said she committed suicide by hanging herself with a dupatta on Sunday. Her family members said that she had not spoken to them since Friday.[Read More…]
Gaza, Feb 17 (IANS) Around 100 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip have joined a rally to show solidarity with China in its fight against the disease caused by novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Wearing green medical masks on Sunday, the children chanted support for China to “keep fighting this fatal disease”[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) To strengthen relation between India and Myanmar, Indian Navy chief Admiral Karambir Singh is on four-day trip to Naypyitaw and other parts of the neighbouring country to bolster the bilateral maritime relationship. “He is visiting Myanmar from February 17 to February 20. The visit is[Read More…]
By Sanjeev Kumar Singh Chauhan New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) Two dreaded criminals were killed in an exchange of fire with the Special Cell of Delhi Police at Prahladpur near Badarpur in the early hours on Monday. Those killed have been identified as Rafeeq alias Raja Pehlwan and Ramesh Bahadur.[Read More…]
London, Feb 17 (IANS) Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a widespread hacking by Iranian groups who compromised VPN (virtual private network) servers, planted bugs or ‘backdoors’ and succeeded in gaining access to the networks of numerous companies and organisations around the world. During the last quarter of 2019, the research team[Read More…]
Johannesburg, Feb 17 (IANS) South Africa head coach Mark Boucher has once again stated that they can consider AB de Villiers for the T20 World Cup provided he is in good form and makes himself available for the tournament. de Villiers, a former captain in all formats for South Africa[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, Feb 17 (IANS) After bouncing back from two defeats against Belgium with two victories over Great Britain, Australia will now to continue with their good form when they take on India in their upcoming two matches in the second edition of the FIH Hockey Pro League. “I think it[Read More…]
Lucknow, Feb 17 (IANS) The death toll in Sunday night’s van-truck collision on the Unnao-Hardoi highway has gone up to seven. It was initially said that three persons were travelling in the van when it caught fire following a collision with a truck. However, when the fire was completely doused[Read More…]
Ferozabad (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 17 (IANS) A Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU – Bhanu group) leader along with his men have been booked for allegedly driving into a private primary school in a convoy of 15 SUVs, firing shots and vandalizing property while nearly 300 students were in the premises. The[Read More…]
Lucknow, Feb 17 (IANS) The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has asked students to lodge complaints of noise pollution at the emergency helpline 112. This has been done in view of the board examination and the ongoing wedding season. Within 36 hours of the launch on February 15, the[Read More…]
Sydney, Feb 17 (IANS) An Australian court on Monday dismissed a legal bid by public broadcaster ABC to have a raid by the Australian Federal Police at its Sydney offices in June last year declared invalid. The raids were linked to leaked military documents related to alleged crimes — including[Read More…]
San Francisco, Feb 17 (IANS) Microsoft is working on a new feature called “Outlook Spaces” that would allow users to organise emails, meetings, calendar appointments, to-do lists, notes and documents into easy-to-follow project areas. With the “Spaces’ feature, users can also include any relevant links and more at one single[Read More…]
Madrid, Feb 17 (IANS) A fabulous pass by Denis Suarez to Santi Mina for an on-the-road goal for Celta Vigo just four minutes before the final whistle mangled Real Madrid’s hopes of emerging from contest with a sixth consecutive win, once again showing in the 2-2 result the fragile defence[Read More…]
Tokyo, Feb 17 (IANS) Two US government chartered planes carrying hundreds of US citizens who were aboard a quarantined cruise ship in Yokohama departed Japan on Monday. The evacuees left on two charter flights that departed from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, the US embassy in Japan said in a statement, reported[Read More…]
Wellington, Feb 17 (IANS) Left-arm New Zealand pacer Trent Boult has recovered from the injury he suffered in Australia and has been included in the 13-man squad for the two-Test series against India starting at the Basin Reserve in Wellington on Friday. Boult had suffered from the broken right-hand in[Read More…]
Beijing, Feb 17 (IANS) A total of 10,844 patients infected with the novel coronavirus had been discharged from hospital after recovery by the end of Sunday, Chinese health authority announced on Monday. Sunday saw 1,425 people walk out of hospital after recovery, the National Health Commission said in its daily[Read More…]
Beijing, Feb 17 (IANS) Chinese health authority on Monday said it received reports of 2,048 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection and 105 deaths on Sunday from 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Among the deaths, 100 were in Hubei Province, three in Henan, and[Read More…]
Lhasa, Feb 17 (IANS) The 11th Panchen Lama and the Tibet Development Fund have donated medical supplies worth 1 million yuan (about $1,43,145) to help fight the novel coronavirus in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, local authorities said on Sunday. According to the region’s health commission, the medical supplies, including[Read More…]
