Haridwar: Facades of two mosques and a mazar along the kanwar yatra route in Uttarakhand's Haridwar city were on Friday covered with large sheets of white cloth to "prevent trouble" but were removed by the evening after objections from various quarters. The sheets were hung...
New Delhi: In Delhi to attend a NITI Aayog meeting July 27, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday said the public policy think-tank brought by the Modi government should be scrapped and the Planning Commission restored. In an interaction with a group of journalists...
New Delhi: The National Testing Agency Friday announced the final results of the controversy-ridden medical entrance exam NEET-UG, officials said. As per the new results, 17 candidates have shares the top rank, down from 61. The results were declared following directive from the Supreme Court...
Dambulla: Pacer Renuka Singh's three-wicket burst followed by Smriti Mandhana's brisk unbeaten fifty underlined India's ruthless performance as the defending champions walloped Bangladesh by 10 wickets and marched into their record-extending ninth women's Asia Cup final, here Friday. India will face the winner of the...
Paris: France's high-speed rail network was hit Friday with widespread and “criminal” acts of vandalism including arson attacks, paralysing travel to Paris from across the rest of France and Europe only hours before the grand opening ceremony of the Olympics. French officials condemned the attacks...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday sought responses from the Centre and the secretaries to the Governors of West Bengal and Kerala on separate pleas of the two-state governments against denial of assent to bills and referring those for the consideration of the president. A...
Drass: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday that the Kargil War win is neither the victory of any government in power nor of any political group, it is the heritage and the victory of 1.40 crore people of India. Addressing the 25th celebrations of the...
Bhopal: Senior BJP leader and the party's former Madhya Pradesh president, Prabhat Jha, passed away at a hospital in Delhi Friday. He was 67. Two weeks ago he was airlifted to Delhi from Bhopal after his health deteriorated all of a sudden. Jha served as...
Colombo: Sri Lanka has once again rejected allegations of the Tamil minority 'genocide' charge by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and claimed the accusation was 'arising from local domestic vote bank politics. Sri Lanka's Foreign Ministry Thursday rejected the allegation made by the Canadian Prime...
Colombo: Sri Lanka will hold the presidential poll September 21, the election commission announced Friday, ending the months-long speculation over the key contest which is likely to determine the future of economic reforms in the cash-strapped country. This will be the first election to be...
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