New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Tuesday told an all-party meeting that India has assured help to former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who arrived here Monday evening, and given her time to decide the future course of action, sources said. Briefing political party...
Dhaka: The leaders of the Students Against Discrimination Tuesday said they want Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus as the head of Bangladesh's interim government, a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country following massive protests against her government. In a video posted...
New Delhi: INDIA bloc parties staged a protest in Parliament premises Tuesday to press for the rollback of 18 per cent Goods and Services Tax (GST) on life and health insurance premiums. MPs from various parties such as TMC, Congress, AAP and NCP (SC), among...
Kiev: Ukraine received $3.9 billion in non-repayable financial assistance from the US, Ukraine's Finance Ministry said. "The grant will help the government of Ukraine to reimburse priority social and humanitarian expenditures without increasing the debt burden," said Ukrainian Finance Minister Sergii Marchenko Monday. The funding...
Wayanad: The rescue operations in landslide-affected four villages of Kerala's Wayanad entered the eighth day Tuesday with the death toll reaching 402 and around 170 still missing. The over 1,200-strong rescue team comprising personnel from all the Defence forces, NDRF, SDRF, police, fire services and...
New Delhi/Kolkata: The Border Security Force (BSF) Monday issued a "high alert" across all its formations along the 4,096-km India-Bangladesh border in the wake of the developments in the neighbouring country, officials said. BSF Director General (Acting) Daljit Singh Chawdhary and other senior commanders toured...
Mumbai: Stock market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty crashed nearly 3 per cent Monday following extremely weak trends in global equity markets amid fears of a slowdown in the US economy. The 30-share BSE Sensex plummeted 2,222.55 points or 2.74 per cent to settle at...
New Delhi: In a major setback to the AAP government, the Supreme Court Monday held that the lieutenant governor of Delhi has the power to nominate aldermen to the MCD. A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and...
Hajipur (Bihar): At least nine Kanwar Yatra pilgrims were electrocuted to death and two others sustained injuries when the vehicle they were travelling in came in contact with a high-tension overhead wire in Bihar's Vaishali district, a senior official said Monday. The incident took place...
Wayanad: Rescue operations entered the seventh day Monday when the toll in Kerala’s worst natural calamity touched 387, while 180 people still missing after the massive landslides and floods in Wayanad last week. The over 1,500-strong rescue team comprising personnel from all three defence forces,...
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