Srinagar, Feb 18 (IANS) A Pakistani JeM terrorist who plotted the suicide bombing on a CRPF convoy and an Indian Major were among nine people killed in fighting between security forces and militants that also left 10 security personnel, including a senior police officer and three Army officers, injured in[Read More…]
Guwahati, Feb 18 (IANS) A woman college teacher has gone missing since Sunday morning after being suspended by the college authorities for a Facebook post on the terrorist attack on a CRPF convoy in Jammu & Kashmir’s Pulwama district that left 49 dead last Thursday, police said here on Monday.[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has granted anticipatory bail to a man facing prosecution in a molestation case on the condition that he will plant 50 saplings in a government school. Noting that the accused has joined the investigation into the case, Justice Sunil Gaur in[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will announce on Tuesday a range of citizen safety initiatives, including a national emergency number and a Safe City project. Under the Emergency Response Support System (ERSS), citizens in distress can dial 112, a pan-India number. The call will go[Read More…]
Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) Five persons have been arrested after a probe, ordered by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Examination (WBBSE), into circulation of question papers of the Madhaymik examination on social media, the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID) said on Monday. During the examination, which started on February[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Condemning the Pulwama terror attack of February 14, India and Argentina on Monday reiterated their commitment to fight terrorism in all its forms and underscored the need to ensure that terror outfits do not get access to any weapon of mass destruction (WMD), technologies or[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday said it would go into a PIL challenging Article 370 of the Constitution that gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir. “Give mentioning memo to Registrar. We will see it,” a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi told petitioner[Read More…]
London, Feb 18 (IANS) During its 18-month-long investigation into disinformation and “fake news”, a committee of the UK Parliament invited Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear before it three times. Zuckerberg didn’t show up once. This was, however, not the only reason why in its final report on Monday, the[Read More…]
Chennai, Feb 18 (IANS) Global chess body FIDE’s Vice-President and chess Grand Master (GM) Nigel Short targeted the All India Chess Federation (AICF) again by expressing disappointment at the disenfranchisement of the Maharashtra Chess Association and several others. In a tweet, Short said: “Given the extraordinary work that the #Maharashtra[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 18 (IANS) Ending weeks of speculation, the ruling NDA constituents – Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party – finally sealed their alliance for the ensuing Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said the formula worked out is BJP will contest 25, of the total 48[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the presentation of the interim Budget by the Modi government in the just concluded last session of the 16th Lok Sabha. The bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjiv Khanna dismissed[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) The fate of the I-League match between Real Kashmir FC and Minerva Punjab FC will be decided by the All India Football Federation’s (AIFF) League Committee, according to a statement issued by the AIFF on Monday. In the wake of the Pulwama terror attck that[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) With an eye on first-time voters, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is set to launch over a dozen programmes, including “NaMo Yuva connect” targeting one of the strongest support bases of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,[Read More…]
Brisbane, Feb 18 (IANS) Australia’s limited overs captain Aaron Finch feels India are the best in their own conditions and they have to be at their best to beat them in the limited overs games, starting with two T20 internationals from February 24. “I don’t think you need anything to[Read More…]
By Subhash Narayan New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Rising oil prices and depreciating rupee are set to further upset the countrys fiscal math this year, with estimates suggesting that the crude import bill in FY19 would shoot up by close to 50 per cent to $130 billion, twice the level[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Venkat Chary, Chairman of 63 moons Technologies, formerly Financial Technologies, on Monday said his company will file for damages worth Rs 10,000 crore against former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram and then Chairman of Forward Markets Commission, Ramesh Abhishek, and former Additional Secretary for Finance K.P.[Read More…]
Panaji, Feb 18 (IANS) The Congress in Goa on Monday accused the BJP-led coalition government of trying to sabotage a CBI probe recommended by state Lokayukta in an alleged tablet-PC procurement scam, which took place in 2013. Speaking to reporters in Panaji, state Congress president Girish Chodankar said the fact[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) The retaliation for the Pulwama terror attack will come at a time and place of India’s choosing, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to assuage the feelings of the country seething with anger after the killing of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in a suicide[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) chairman Hemant Contractor said here on Monday they have requested the government to raise the upper age limit for Atal Pension Yojana (APY) to 50 years from 40 years. “The upper age limit for APY, which is for[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) The revenue opportunity from increased sales of smart feature phones is expected to be about $28 billion over the next three years, according to a new report from Counterpoint Research. “This will be enabled by a potential of more than 300 million smart feature phone[Read More…]
Chandigarh, Feb 18 (IANS) The Municipal Corporation Chandigarh has decided to dedicate the 47th Rose Festival to the CRPF troopers martyred in the Pulwama terror attack. The decision was taken at a meeting of MC officials held here on Monday. “It was unanimously decided that the whole festival will be[Read More…]
Gurugram, Feb 18 (IANS) Facing flak from right-wing Hindu groups, a government girls college here has withdrawn a disciplinary notice to Student Union president Shikha Raghav for taking out a march to protest the Pulwama terror attack that left 49 CRPF troopers dead. “The students of the Sector 14 college[Read More…]
Islamabad, Feb 18 (IANS) Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman on Monday affirmed his country’s strong ties with Pakistan, saying it will be a very important country in the coming future, as Islamabad rolled out the red carpet for the royal and honoured him with its highest civilian honour. As[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Veteran matinee idol Biswajit Chatterjee joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here on Monday in the presence of party general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and other senior leaders. The 83-year-old actor is likely to contest the Lok Sabha elections from any parliamentary constituency in West Bengal,[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 18 (IANS) Ending weeks of speculation, the ruling NDA constituents – Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – finally sealed an alliance for the Lok Sabha and Maharashtra Assembly elections. BJP President Amit Shah and Sena President Uddhav Thackeray, along with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, former Lok[Read More…]
