ISLAMABAD: Pakistan National Assembly’s crucial session on a no-trust motion against embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan was adjourned on Friday without tabling of the resolution, amid vociferous protests from opposition lawmakers. National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser said that the session was adjourned till 4pm on March 28 due to the demise of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf lawmaker […]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Friday refused to entertain a plea seeking a direction to the Centre to disclose accounts, activity and expenditure details of the PM-CARES Fund and make it open for audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and B R Gavai asked […]
JERUSALEM: Israel said Friday it would host the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Bahrain during U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit early next week, in what would be the latest in a flurry of high-level meetings held across the Middle East. The three Arab countries normalized relations with Israel in […]
NEW DELHI: Opposition members from various parties in Lok Sabha on Friday walked out of proceedings over rising fuel prices, with a Congress MP questioning the need to hike price of petrol, diesel and cooking gas following a 137 days hiatus after polls in five states concluded. Gaurav Gogoi (Cong) raised the issue of rise […]
MUMBAI: From having Virat Kohli as part of the leadership group to learning from ‘captain cool’ MS Dhoni during his stint with CSK, Faf du Plessis is all excited to lead Royal Challengers Bangalore in the upcoming IPL. The former South African skipper, who was bought by the RCB for Rs 7 crore in the […]
MANAMA: A close 0-1 defeat against Bahrain in their previous match notwithstanding, India would look to dish out an improved show against higher-ranked Belarus in their second international football friendly here on Saturday. Six players could not accompany the team that left Mumbai on Monday due to visa issues but they reached here on the […]
MUMBAI: Indian cricket’s crown jewel, the IPL, is back home: bigger, better and longer. It will be the first time since 2011 that 10 teams be fighting it out for the most coveted T20 trophy in world cricket. Two new entrants, Lucknow Supergiants and Gujarat Titans, fetching a combined price of approximately USD 1.7 billion […]
Srinagar: To overcome the problem of frequent cancellation of flights due to low visibility at the Srinagar airport here, authorities on Friday said the process to install Category II instrument landing system (ILS) will commence next month. The system will bring the visibility threshold down to 500 metres from the current 1,000 metres and it […]
Srinagar, Mar 25 Jammu and Kashmir on Friday recorded 11 fresh COVID-19 cases that took its tally to 4,53,637, while no death was reported, officials said. The death toll stood at 4,750, they said. Out of the fresh cases, two were from the Jammu division and nine from the Kashmir division of the union territory, […]
New Delhi, Mar 25 Over 4.70 crore cases are pending in various courts in the country, including 70,154 in the Supreme Court, Lok Sabha was informed on Friday. The total number of cases pending in the 25 high courts stood at 58,94,060 as on March 21 this year. The pendency in the apex court was […]