Washington, Feb 19 (IANS) US airlines will add more gender options for passengers who don’t identify as “male” or “female”, the media reported on Tuesday. The Airlines for America (A4A), the industry trade group, and members of the International Air Transport Association recently approved a new international standard for non-binary[Read More…]
Washington, Feb 19 (IANS) A new round of trade talks between the US and China will begin on Tuesday following those that were held in Beijing last week, the White House said. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement on Monday night that President Donald Trump had[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday paid tributes to mystic poet-saint of the Bhakti Movement Guru Ravidas on his birth anniversary that has crossed over six centuries. “Greetings and good wishes to all fellow citizens on Guru Ravidas Jayanti. His[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Google on Tuesday said that it has found no evidence that its Search algorithms were showing the Pakistani flag when looked for the “best toilet paper in the world”, the “best China-made toilet paper” or just “toilet paper”. “While we continue to investigate the matter,[Read More…]
Beijing, Feb 19 (IANS) The Chinese Commerce Ministry on Tuesday confirmed that Vice Premier Liu He will visit the US for a new round of negotiations aimed at resolving the ongoing trade war between Washington and Beijing. The talks are slated to take place on Thursday and Friday, reports Efe[Read More…]
Shimla, Feb 19 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh has installed 6,000 dustbins along urban and rural roads displaying names of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Members of Parliament. Another 13,000 more are in the process of being installed. Congress leaders told IANS the dustbins prominently feature the name of BJP MPs Anurag Thakur,[Read More…]
Prayagraj, Feb 19 (IANS) Hundreds and thousands of devotees, seers, pilgrims and tourists on Tuesday took a holy dip in the Sangam — the trinity of holy rivers Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati — on the occasion of “Maghi Purnima”, officials said. The officials expect over a crore of devotees to participate[Read More…]
Washington, Feb 19 (IANS) The US and North Korea were seriously considering exchanging liaison officers, an incremental step towards normalising relations while the two sides negotiate to curtail Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile forces, informed sources told CNN. The development comes ahead of President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim[Read More…]
Washington, Feb 19 (IANS) Sixteen states on Monday evening filed a lawsuit challenging US President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration. The group of states, led by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, filed the lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. “We’re going to try to[Read More…]
Chicago, Feb 19 (IANS) Three children and a woman were found dead of apparent gunshot wounds at a property in rural northern Kent County in the US Midwestern state of Michigan on Monday afternoon. The property is located in Solon Township, northwest of Cedar Springs, reports Xinhua news agency. The[Read More…]
Washington, Feb 19 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has mentioned former Michigan GOP Senate candidate John James as a leading contender for the role of US ambassador to the United Nations, a source close to White House tells CNN. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert announced on Saturday she had withdrawn[Read More…]
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Nagarkirtan” (Bengali); Writer and Director: Kaushik Ganguly; Starring: Riddhi Sen, Ritwick Chakraborty; Rating: *****(5 stars) There are passages in this profoundly melancholic study of gender disorientation where the wall dividing the characters from the audience disappears. And what we see is the naked soul of[Read More…]
Monaco, Feb 19 (IANS) Tennis world No. 1 Novak Djokovic of Serbia won his fourth Laureus World Sportsman of the Year here on Monday, and American record-holding gymnast Simone Biles bagged the World Sportswoman of the Year Award thanks to her dominant world championship performance last year. Djokovic triumphed in[Read More…]
Washington, Feb 19 (IANS) US President Donald Trump accused on Monday the deputy attorney general of the Justice Department, Rod Rosenstein, of planning to take illegal action against him, after former acting director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, said that in 2017 there were alleged projects afoot to remove the[Read More…]
La Paz, Feb 19 (IANS) Twenty-four people were killed and 11 others injured on Monday when a bus collided with a truck in western Bolivia, police told Efe. The director of transit and transportation in the Oruro region, Col. Victor Hugo Lizarazu, said that while the causes of the accident[Read More…]
Rabat, Feb 19 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita on Monday signed four agreements to cement bilateral cooperation. The two foreign ministers inked four memorandums of understanding (MoUs) in the areas of security, housing, investments and youths, Xinhua news agency reported. Speaking at a[Read More…]
Quito, Feb 19 (IANS) Ecuador could lose two of its seven glaciers over the next few years thanks to global warming, a phenomenon that worries experts because it would alter the paramo ecosystem and its effect on the nation’s water supply and humidity, media reported. The most imminent threat concerns[Read More…]
Srinagar, Feb 18 (IANS) Deputy Inspector General of Police Amit Kumar was on Monday shot and wounded by militants during an ongoing gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police said. Kumar was hit by a bullet in Pinglena village in fighting that also killed an Army Major and three[Read More…]
Jaipur, Feb 18 (IANS) Following in the footsteps of Mumbai’s Cricket Club of India (CCI) and Punjab Cricket Association (PCA), the Rajasthan Cricket Association on Monday removed pictures of a number of Pakistan players to record its protest against the terrorist attack on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama that claimed[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Victims of Johnson & Johnson faulty Articular Surface Replacement (ASR) hip implants have written to the central expert committee (CEC) raising objections to the compensation package proposed by the government. In a 15-page letter to CEC chairman Dr R.K. Arya on February 13, a copy[Read More…]
Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to initiate an independent probe into the IL&FS financial debacle. In her letter, Banerjee mentioned that IL&FS faced a debt crisis to the tune of alarming Rs 91,000 crore putting[Read More…]
Jerusalem, Feb 19 (IANS) Aiming to become the fourth country to make a soft landing on the Moon, Israel’s non-profit SpaceIL has announced it will launch a spacecraft from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Thursday on board a Falcon 9 rocket. The unmanned craft, weighing 1,300 pounds and standing approximately five[Read More…]
Jerusalem, Feb 19 (IANS) Aiming to become the fourth country to make a soft landing on the Moon, Israel’s non-profit SpaceIL has announced it will launch a spacecraft from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Thursday on board a Falcon 9 rocket. The unmanned craft, weighing 1,300 pounds and standing approximately five[Read More…]
Nay Pyi Taw, Feb 19 (IANS) Myanmar on Monday condemned the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 40 CRPF troopers. In a statement, the ministry of foreign affairs said, “Myanmar strongly condemns the heinous terrorist attack in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir on 14 February, 2019 that claimed many[Read More…]
