Prayagraj, June 18 (IANS) Fourteen years after a terror attack on Ayodhya by Jaish-e-Mohammad operatives, a special court here on Tuesday convicted four of the accused in the conspiracy behind the attack and sentenced them to life imprisonment. The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 40,000 each on[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) Bestselling historian and author William Dalrymple’s latest book “The Anarchy”, based on the rise of the East India Company, will release on September 10, publisher Bloomsbury announced on Tuesday. Calling it his “most ambitious and riveting book to date”, Bloomsbury revealed that the book tells[Read More…]
By Krishna SinhaChaudhury New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) Wirefree listening has its own perks and that’s why the wireless earphones an earbuds are now in demand more than ever in India. According to Counterpoint Research, the global market for true wireless hearables is poised to touch a volume of 129[Read More…]
Paris, June 18 (IANS) Former UEFA president and ex-French international star midfielder Michel Platini has been arrested on suspicion of having been involved in alleged corruption linked to a decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. Platini was nabbed at around 09.30 local time (07.30 GMT) and taken[Read More…]
Buldhana (Maharashtra), June 18 (IANS) Upset over being denied an agricultural power connection in his fields since 1980, a farmer recently attempted to commit suicide by consuming poison in the presence of the Maharashtra Minister of State for Energy Madan Yerawar and other senior officials. Speaking to mediapersons here on[Read More…]
Bengaluru, June 18 (IANS) Serial media entrepreneur Raghav Bahl invested an additional $7.2 million (Rs 50 crore) in his flagship news website ‘The Quint’, said data intelligence platform paper.vc on Tuesday. “According to regulatory filings by Quintillion Media Ltd, Bahl has invested $7.2 million in The Quint out of $21.5[Read More…]
Dubai, June 18 (IANS) The 32 Filipino crew members of the two tankers that were attacked in the Gulf of Oman on June 13 who are now in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were safe and unharmed, the Philippine envoy said here on Tuesday. Philippine Ambassador to the UAE Hjayceelyn[Read More…]
Guwahati, June 18 (IANS) The 2019 AFC Cup group stage approaches its business end as table-toppers Chennaiyin FC (CFC) take on compatriots Minerva Punjab in the penultimate Group E game at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium on Wednesday. Chennaiyin are ahead of Bangladesh’s Abahani Limited Dhaka in the points table[Read More…]
Panaji, June 18 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition in the Goa Assembly Chandrakant Kavlekar, here on Tuesday, alleged that some departments wilfully delay replies to critical questions raised in the Assembly, depriving the Opposition opportunity to take on the treasury benches. “Sometimes, we would get the reply just minutes before[Read More…]
Sydney, June 18 (IANS) In a world’s first, ‘green’ concrete” which is made using industrial waste from coal-fired power stations and steel manufacturing is being used in a road trial in Sydney. Researchers from the University of New South Wales, Sydney and research and innovation hub called CRC for Low[Read More…]
London, June 18 (IANS) Researchers have found that a drug, called nilvadipine that is consumed as a pill to control hypertension, could also help patients combat Alzheimer’s disease without affecting other parts of the brain. Nilvadipine is a calcium channel blocker used to treat high blood pressure (HBP). According to[Read More…]
Kolkata, June 18 (IANS) Indicating that she would skip the meeting of presidents of all political parties convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday wrote to the Centre saying it should not go about “hurriedly” on a “sensitive[Read More…]
Mumbai, June 18 (IANS) The cricketing world is all set to witness a revolution in popular cricket as the first league of its kind — Indian Tennis Cricket League (ITCL) — which will be played with a tennis ball, gets underway at the D.Y. Patil stadium here from the October[Read More…]
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New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Army chief General Bipin Rawat on Tuesday paid tributes to Major Ketan Sharma, who died fighting militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district a day earlier. The Defence Minister laid a wreath on the coffin of the officer draped with[Read More…]
Shimla, June 18 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh government on Tuesday make it mandatory for trekkers to carry a GPS device to tackle any exigency. A decision in this regard was taken at a review meeting chaired by Additional Chief Secretary Shrikant Baldi here on preparedness for the monsoon. He said[Read More…]
San Francisco, June 18 (IANS) As the chorus grows to break up Facebook and regulators scramble to fix it over privacy violations, the social networking giant on Tuesday announced a digital wallet subsidiary called ‘Calibra’ that would launch Blockchain-powered cryptocurrency ‘Libra’ next year to help nearly one billion people globally[Read More…]
By Vishal Gulati Shimla, June 18 (IANS) In a first scientific study of its kind, the state Wildlife Department, in partnership with the Nature Conservation Foundation, is laying camera traps to study the elusive and highly endangered snow leopard in the alpine and high-altitude regions of the Great Himalayan National[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) By naming Rajasthan MP Om Birla as the NDA nominee for the post of the Lok Sabha Speaker, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah have again given preference to competence over seniority. Birla is a two-time Lok Sabha member from Kota in[Read More…]
Prayagraj, June 18 (IANS) A special court in Prayagraj on Tuesday convicted four accused in the conspiracy behind the 2005 Ayodhya terror attack case that had caused death of two civilians, and sentenced them to life imprisonment. The fifth accused, Mohammad Aziz, was acquitted in the verdict which took 14[Read More…]
Shimla, June 18 (IANS) Government doctors across Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district on Tuesday observed a ‘pen down’ strike for two hours over the failure to arrest an accused involved in assaulting and abusing a female doctor posted in Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur’s home constituency. The doctors threatened to go[Read More…]
Hiroshima, June 18 (IANS) The Indian Womens Hockey team qualified for the semi-final of the FIH Womens Series Finals as they hammered Fiji 11-0 in their third and last Pool A match here at the Hiroshima Hockey Stadium on Tuesday. The match saw world no. 9 Indian team dominate throughout[Read More…]
Bengaluru, June 18 (IANS) To facilitate high quality Internet calls, communication app Truecaller on Tuesday launched a new feature called “Truecaller Voice” for its 140 million daily active users globally, the company said in a statement. The in-app voice over Internet protocol (VoIP)-based feature would let users make free, high[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) Congress leader and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday took oath as a Lok Sabha member as BJP backbenchers shouted slogans of “Jai Shri Ram” and “Bharat Mata ki Jai”. Sonia Gandhi, the only Congress member to be elected from Uttar Pradesh, took the oath[Read More…]
Tehran, June 18 (IANS) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday reaffirmed that his country does not seek war with any nation, but stressed that Tehran will come out as the ultimate winner of any warfare against it. “We will not wage war with any nation, those facing us are a[Read More…]
