PITHORAGARH/DEHRADUN: Several members of a right-wing group along with a few local residents held a protest rally and a sit-in, demanding the demolition of what they described as an “illegal mosque” in Berinag area of Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand. They claimed the mosque was built “unlawfully inside a house and should be removed”. The latest…
External affairs minister S Jaishankar (File photo) OTTAWA: Canada has denied it ever banned Australia Today, the Indian diaspora-focused media outlet operating from down under. Global Affairs Canada said in a statement that the news site and video of media comments by both India’s foreign minister S Jaishankar and his Australian counterpart Penny Wong, can…
MADURAI: Sri Lankan navy on Sunday apprehended 23 fishermen from Rameswaram and seized their three boats on charges of poaching in their territorial waters.The Sri Lankan navy took the apprehended fishermen to Mayilitti base in Jaffna and handed them over to the local fisheries officials for onward proceedings. The fishermen are likely to be produced…
NEW DELHI: India is set to receive the first of its two guided-missile warships being built in Russia by the end of this month, following a long delay due to ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. However, the delivery of 2 remaining squadrons of S-400 Triumf air defense missile systems is likely to be delayed until 2026, and…
BAKU: India will call for early adoption of the definition of climate finance to bring transparency in the process of its mobilisation and continue to engage constructively in all negotiations at the 29th session of UN climate conference (CO), beginning on Monday, said the country’s environment secretary Leena Nandan.“Transparency and predictability within climate finance mechanisms…
Jairam Ramesh (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress on Sunday filed a complaint with the Election Commission against BJP’s official Facebook page handle for Jharkhand for publishing an advertisement that allegedly ascribed false allegations and statements to leaders of JMM, Congress and RJD. The opposition party has called it a “blatant violation” of the Model Code…
HASSAN: A row over Kashmiri students sporting beard in a nursing college in Karnataka’s Hassan district was resolved on Sunday with college administration thrashing out a compromise formula, allowing the students to either have a clean-shaven look or keep his beard closely trimmed.Fifteen male and three female students from J&K are studying in Govt College…
GUWAHATI: Gunfire and explosions targeting farmers in Imphal East and a cluster of homes in Jiribam kept Manipur on the edge Sunday, with security agencies blaming militants suspected to be from the hills for the renewed spate of attacks in which a woman was allegedly raped and burned alive four nights ago and another was…
Donald Trump (File photo) MUMBAI: Unknown possibly to many, just 48 hours after Donald Trump was formally declared presidential election winner, the US conducted on Nov 8 a flight test related to its nuclear weapons programme.Los Alamos National Laboratory — one of the main centres of US nuclear weapons development — launched a payload code…
SRINAGAR: Naib Subedar Rakesh Kumar, a junior commissioned officer (JCO) attached with 2 Para Special Forces, was killed and three more soldiers were wounded during a gunfight with terrorists in Keshwan forest of J&K’s Kishtwar district Sunday morning.Kumar’s death brought the number of security force fatalities in terrorist attacks in J&K to 25 since May…
