NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday expressed “deep concern” over the humanitarian situation in war-torn Gaza as he held bilateral talks with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in New York.“PM @narendramodimet H.E. Mahmoud Abbas, President of Palestine, on the sidelines of UNGA today. PM expressed deep concern at the humanitarian situation in Gaza…
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…
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…
ISLAMABAD: A roadside bomb exploded near a convoy of foreign diplomats visiting Pakistan’s scenic Swat district in the northwest on Sunday, leaving one policeman dead and three injured.Police officials said the victims were part of the squad leading the convoy of 12 countries. They said all the foreign dignitaries were unharmed.The foreigners included ambassadors from…
