Jakarta, The former Governor of the Indonesian capital was released from prison on Thursday after serving his two-year sentence for insulting Islam. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, popularly known as Ahok, is a Christian and was Jakarta’s first non-Muslim governor in 50 years. He was controversially jailed in May 2017 after a[Read More…]
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Indonesian tsunami rescue efforts continue as country marks 2004 disaster
Jakarta, Indonesian authorities on Wednesday resumed the search for 154 people missing after a tsunami hit the Sunda Strait coasts as the country commemorates the anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami that killed around 230,000 people. According to the latest official figures, which authorities say could increase, the death[Read More…]
Indonesia’s Lion Air plane crashes into pole in new accident
Jakarta: A week after an Indonesian low-cost airline Lion Air plane crashed killing 189 people, another of its aircraft was involved in an incident on Thursday, when it smashed into a pole during takeoff from an airport on Sumatra Island. Lion Air blamed airport staff for the incident, which did[Read More…]
Delhi’s Bhavye Suneja, the pilot of crashed Indonesian plane with 189 aboard off Jakarta
An Indonesian Lion Air Boeing passenger plane carrying 189 people, flown by Indian captain Bhavye Suneja crashed into the Java Sea on Monday, shortly after taking off from here, with authorities saying they have found no survivor. The Boeing 737, JT 610, disappeared from the radar 13 minutes after take[Read More…]
Indonesian plane crashes off Jakarta
Jakarta: A Lion Air Boeing 737 passenger plane came down crashing minutes after taking off from here on Monday, said Indonesian officials. “It has been confirmed that it has crashed,” Yusuf Latif, a spokesman for the national search and rescue agency told the media. The scheduled Flight JT-610 was headed[Read More…]
From pain and penury to pinnacle of success: The winning tale of gritty Swapna Barman
Kolkata: Until that evening in Jakarta when the country celebrated her success with much fanfare, everything about heptathlete Swapna Barman spelt hardship. From extreme poverty to physical deformity of the kind that threatened to time and again derail her ambition, Swapna pushed every odd to its limits on course to[Read More…]
Haryana sportspersons won 25 per cent of medals for country in Asian Games
Keeping Haryana’s flag flying high in the medals tally for the country in the Jakarta AsianGames, sportspersons from Haryana have bagged nearly 25 per cent of the total medals. Haryana Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Anil Vij said on Thursday that sportspersons from the state won 17 medals in these games. Of the total 69 medals won by India, 15 are gold medals, 24[Read More…]
Shotput gold medallist Tajinderpal’s father passes away before son’s arrival
Tajinderpal Singh Toor’s ailing father, who had been battling with cancer for the past two years, passed away just when Tajinderpal left for his hometown Moga in Punjab after landing in Delhi from Jakarta. The athlete wanted to meet his ailing father and fulfil his wish of holding the gold medal[Read More…]
An Olympian sports minister
Rajyavardhan Rathor, a 48-year-old sports minister, was on roll over the social media after his photos with sports persons from Asian Games at Jakarta went viral. Suited up in formals, the sports minister Rathore was seen having meal with other players irrespective of his VIP political badge. The Union Minister[Read More…]
Twin blasts in Jakarta claim three lives
In twin blasts that happened in Jakarta on Wednesday night, two suspected suicide bombers killed three Indonesian police officers and injured 10 people. The blasts happened near a bus station in the eastern part of the capital, according to police. The blasts went off five minutes apart at Jakarta’s Kampung[Read More…]
6 asphyxiate in Indonesia after robbers lock them in bathroom
Six people, which included a nine-year-old child, were found dead from suffocation in a tiny bathroom by Indonesian police, after armed robbers had locked them there the previous day. Up to four intruders broke into the house in an upmarket neighbourhood on Monday, Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono said, reported[Read More…]