Ankara: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has sent a letter to the United Nations formally requesting that his country be referred to as T rkiye, the state-run news agency reported. The move is seen as part of a push by Ankara to rebrand the country and dissociate its name from the bird, turkey, and some […]
Mumbai: Congress leader and former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, a member of a group of dissidents in the party, has said that he has not been able to meet senior leader Rahul Gandhi in the last four years. There was no `chintan’ or introspection at the recent Congress conclave in Udaipur, he told the […]
New Delhi: The Cricket West Indies (CWI) and the BCCI has announced India’s tour of the West Indies where the ‘Men in Blue’ will play three ODIs and five T20Is between July 22 and August 7. India will finish its white-ball leg of UK tour on July 17 and those selected would directly leave for […]
MUMBAI: Out-of-favour India batter Ajinkya Rahane said it would take at least six to eight weeks to recover fully from the hamstring injury he had sustained while playing for Kolkata Knight Riders in this year’s Indian Premier League. Rahane had sustained the injury in KKR’s second last game and was subsequently ruled out of the […]
New Delhi, Jun 2: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take immediate steps to restore peace in Kashmir, saying innocent people are being killed in the valley and Kashmiri Pandits are fleeing. “Bank manager, teacher and many innocent people are getting killed every day, Kashmiri Pandits are fleeing. […]
Mumbai, Jun 2: The Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Thursday arrested a man in Jammu and Kashmir for his alleged links with Junaid Mohammed, who is accused of recruiting militants for the banned outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), an official said. He was arrested in Kishtwar, the official said. “A team of the Maharashtra ATS, which […]
Oklahom: Four people were killed Wednesday in a shooting at a Tulsa medical building on a hospital campus, a police captain said. Police Deputy Chief Jonathan Brooks confirmed the number of dead and said the shooter also was dead, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. It was unclear how the shooter died or what prompted […]
Kyiv: The US and Germany have pledged to equip Ukraine with some of the advanced weapons it has long desired for shooting down aircraft and knocking out artillery, as Russian forces closed in on capturing a key city in the east. Germany on Wednesday said it will supply Ukraine with up-to-date anti-aircraft missiles and radar […]
Jammu: In view of increased threat perception, the Jammu and Kashmir administration on Wednesday decided to immediately post Kashmiri migrants employed under prime minister’s special package and other employees belonging to the Jammu division in “secured locations’’ in the Valley by June 6, officials sources said. The decision comes after a series of targeted killings […]
Samba: Rajni Bala, a government school teacher who was killed by militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district, was cremated here on Wednesday, amid an outpouring of grief and anger. Slogans of “Rajni Bala Amar Rahe, Amar Rahe” rent the air as her husband, Raj Kumar, lit the pyre and a sea of mourners bid […]