Istanbul, Oct 17 (IANS) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan put US President Donald Trump’s letter, asking him not to “be a tough guy” or a “fool” and warning him he will be viewed as a “devil” if he sends his forces into Syria, into the dustbin, reports said on Thursday.[Read More…]
Kolkata, Oct 17 (IANS) The continuing friction between West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee government and Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar intensified on Thursday with the Centre deploying the CRPF to provide him ‘Z’ category security cover, a decision the ruling Trinamool Congress called “unprecedented”. A person under the Z category security cover is[Read More…]
Indore, Oct 17 (IANS) Can Chief Minister Kamal Nath dispel the pervading cynicism over big ticket investments in Madhya Pradesh? The strike rate of the preceding government headed by Shivraj Singh Chouhan through the past 15 years had been far from satisfactory. Apart from the smaller investment meets in the[Read More…]
Panaji, Oct 17 (IANS) The Goa government’s Information Technology Corporation on Thursday signed an MoU with the Software Technology Park of India to set up a start-up centre in the coastal state. In his address on the occasion of the MoU signing event on the sidelines of the ongoing investment[Read More…]
Indore, Oct 17 (IANS) Can Chief Minister Kamal Nath dispel the pervading cynicism over big ticket investments in Madhya Pradesh? The strike rate of the preceding government headed by Shivraj Singh Chouhan through the past 15 years had been far from satisfactory. Apart from the smaller investment meets in the[Read More…]
Doha, Oct 17 (IANS/AKI) Italy on Thursday welcomed Qatar’s announcement that it has agreed to introduce a minium wage for migrant workers and to abolish the hated ‘kafala’ system that stops them changing jobs or going abroad. “Congratulations to Qatar for announcing a non discriminatory minimum wage for all workers[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) Housing sales across major cities declined 25 per cent during the July-September quarter to 65,799 units, according to a report by Proptiger.com. During the corresponding period of financial year 2018-19 (FY19), about 88,078 units were sold, the report released on Thursday said. The report also[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) After returning as interim Congress President, Sonia Gandhi is scheduled to address her first rally on Friday in Haryana. The party has released a detailed program, which says Congress President Sonia Gandhi will address a public meeting at Govt College Khel Parisar, Mahendragarh (Haryana) at[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) Despite a slew of recent announcements to arrest the growth slowdown and revive liquidity and demand in the real estate, sentiments among the stakeholders in the sector have dipped to the bearish sentiments prevalent during the demonetisation period in late 2016, said a report on[Read More…]
By Ayaskant Das New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will next week inaugurate a bridge in northern Ladakh that will ease movement of troops to the border sector of Daulat Beg Oldi, where a 21-day military standoff between India and China had taken place in 2013, sources[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) A Prominent Malayalam daily Mathrubhumi, four years short of its century, announced on Thursday a Rs 5 lakh ‘Book Of The Year’ award, explaining that “there were so many good books out there that we decided to turn a new page”. The award will be[Read More…]
Chandigarh, Oct 17 (IANS) Chandigarh’s Karandeep Kochhar set the bar at his home turf, the Chandigarh Golf Club, on the opening day of the Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational 2019, a Rs. 1.5 crore event. The 20-year-old Kochhar, the runner-up at the inaugural edition of the tournament last year, struck a[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is all set to question former Union Minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Praful Patel for alleged deals between Millennium Developers promoted by him and his wife Varsha with the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s close aide late Iqbal Mirchi’s[Read More…]
By Sanjeev Kumar Singh Chauhan New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) Former Indian cricketer Manoj Prabhakar and his actress wife Farheen were booked in a criminal case by the Delhi Police on Thursday on the basis of an FIR lodged by London-based NRI, Sandhya Prabhakar, first wife of the ex-cricket star.[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) The Delhi government on Thursday announced that the city will have a real-time source apportionment of pollution from April 2020. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the collaboration between the government and Washington University for the project had figured in this year’s budget. “We have[Read More…]
Dhaka, Oct 17 (IANS) Bangladesh on Thursday recalled left-arm spinner Arafat Sunny and pacer Al-Amin Hossain in their 15-member squad for the upcoming three-match T20 series in India. Fast bowler Rubel Hossain was not picked, according to a Cricbuzz report. Bangladesh Cricket Board left out Taijul Islam, Sabbir Rahman and[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) While Delhi hogs all the attention for its high air pollution, there are towns and cities in the vicinity of the national capital which have even higher pollution levels. To be clear, the air quality index (AQI) scores fluctuate over days and a particular place[Read More…]
Panaji, Oct 17 (IANS) The government is working towards making Goa a premier hub for sports tourism, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Thursday. Jointly addressing a press conference with the organisers of Ironman 70.3, a gruelling international sporting event which involves a race spanning across three disciplines, he said:[Read More…]
By Sundeep Pouranik Bhopal, Oct 17 (IANS) Some recent statements by Madhya Pradesh politicians have crossed the limits by citing actress and BJP MP Hema Malini’s cheeks as an example and comparing the state government with “eagles and crows”. In the last few days, the state’s politicians have given some[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) Leasing of office space across major cities rose over 30 per cent to cross the 47 million square feet mark during the January-September period this year, on a year-on-year basis, according to a CBRE report. The report also said that space of commercial area leased[Read More…]
Chandigarh, Oct 17 (IANS) A floating light and sound show was organised at Ropar town of Punjab in the Satluj river to commemorate the 550th Parkash Purab of Guru Nanak Dev. Vidhan Sabha Speaker K. P. Rana inaugurated the show, while Tourism and Cultural Affairs Minister Charanjit Singh Channi was[Read More…]
Berlin, Oct 17 (IANS) German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Turkey to stop its military operation in Syria in her speech in the federal Parliament Bundestag here on Thursday. Merkel said that the military offensive in northern Syria “only brings new human suffering” and would cause a “humanitarian drama with[Read More…]
BY RAJNISH SINGH Dera Baba Nanak (Punjab), Oct 17 (IANS) A bridge that would play a major role in connecting India and Pakistan’s sides of the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor is yet to be constructed as the neighbouring country has been showing reluctance over the issue. The bridge would link Dera[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Delhi government to go-ahead with its notification on higher minimum wages, resulting in a 37 per cent hike in workers’ minimum wages. A bench of Justices U.U. Lalit and Aniruddha Bose said: “We allow the petitioner state (Delhi[Read More…]
Kolkata, Oct 17 (IANS) A Border Security Force (BSF) trooper was killed and another injured on Thursday when Border Guards Bangladesh fired on them after a flag meeting for securing the release of a fisherman in BGB’s custody at Kakmarichar along the riverine international border in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district.[Read More…]
