Chakma groups protest attacks on minorities in Bangladesh, in Guwahati on Sunday. AIZAWL: Thirteen Chakma organisations in Mizoram, including political parties, sent a memorandum to PM Narendra Modi Sunday, urging his intervention to halt attacks on indigenous ethnic minorities in Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Chakmas share ties of ethnicity and kinship with such groups…
The reptiles swam into Vishwamitri that flows just a few feet away from their enclosure. VADODARA: Not everyone in Vadodara is ruing over the recent floods that brought woes for Barodians. Crocodiles in Sayajibaug zoo, for one, as eight fully-grown reptiles escaped when the flood waters gushed into the city in the last week of…
The trawler, FB Gobindo, with 17 fishermen on board, had set out to catch hilsa but sank near Bagher Char in Sundarbans. KAKDWIP (South 24 Parganas): The bodies of eight of the nine fishermen trapped in a trawler that capsized during a storm in Bay of Bengal on Saturday were recovered a day later. One…
RANCHI: Questioning the necessity to suspend all internet services across the state for Jharkhand General Graduate Level Combined Competitive Examination on Sept 21 and 22, Jharkhand high court on Sunday ordered the state govt to immediately restore it and not repeat it without the court’s consent in future.Earlier, the state govt, announced that mobile internet…
The second-seeded men were almost assured of top podium finish Saturday night itself, but the top-seeded women had to fight it out. India won its first-ever double team gold at Chess Olympiad in Budapest Sunday – only the third country after the Soviet Union (four times from 1982 to ’86) and China (2018) to do…
INDORE/KANPUR: In what seems to be yet more attempts to sabotage railway operations, it has come to light that railway ‘detonators‘ were placed on tracks in Madhya Pradesh‘s Ratlam on September 18 when an Army special train was passing through. The revelation came on a day when an empty gas cylinder was found on the…
Princess Diana‘s ballet teacher Anne Allan has written a book ‘Dancing with Diana‘ explaining an early sign of a doomed marriage that she picked up from an incident — among many other recollections. In December 1985, Diana danced to Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” at the Royal Opera House in London. It was meant to be…
TIRANA: The Muslim cleric preparing to lead what will become, if everything goes as planned, the world’s smallest state has laid-back plans for the tiny new country. His hoped-for Muslim state in Tirana, Albania’s capital, will be a Vatican-style sovereign enclave controlling territory about the size of five New York City blocks, and it will…
SRINAGAR: For the first time since their ancestors migrated from Pakistan to J&K during the 1947 Partition, over 5,000 Hindu families will vote in the ongoing assembly elections.Forced to live in 39 squalid camps near Jammu for over seven decades because Article 370 on J&K’s special status denied them land and other rights, these refugees…
IANS photo for representation. JAMMU: A gunfight broke out between security forces and terrorists near Danna Dhar forest of Chatroo in the upper reaches of Kishtwar district in Jammu division of J&K Sunday evening, following a brief exchange of fire that took place in the same area about 23 hours earlier.A police spokesman said firing…
