YANGON: Protesters in Myanmar returned to the streets Sunday to press their demands for a return to democracy, just a day after security forces killed more than 100 people in the bloodiest day since last month’s military coup. Protests were held in Yangon and Mandalay, the country’s two biggest cities, as well as elsewhere. Some […]
NEW DELHI: India and the US on Sunday kicked off a two-day naval exercise in the eastern Indian Ocean Region, reflecting the growing congruence in their defence and military partnership. The Indian Navy deployed its warship Shivalik and long-range maritime patrol aircraft P8I in the ‘PASSEX’ exercise while the US Navy was represented by the […]
NEW DELHI: Modernisation in the agriculture sector is the need of the hour as already a lot of time has been lost, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday. In his monthly Mann Ki Baat programme, Modi also hailed the world’s largest vaccination programme being carried out in India against Covid-19, and stressed on “dawai […]
NEW DELHI: India saw 62,714 new coronavirus infections in a day, the highest single day rise so far this year, taking the nationwide Covid-19 tally to 1,19,71,624, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Sunday. Registering a steady increase for the 18th day in row, the active cases have increased to 4,86,310 comprising […]
MELBOURNE: Australian Premier Scott Morrison on Sunday extended greetings to his “good friend” Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of Holi, the festival of colours. Morrison took to Twitter to wish Modi and the Hindu community in Australia. “Wishing our Hindu Australian community, my good friend @narendramodi and all the people who are celebrating it, a […]
NEW DELHI: The Trinamool Congress has written to the Election Commission urging it to withdraw a recent order that relaxed a rule on the appointment of polling agents, and alleged that the EC had taken the step to help the BJP. According to a March 2009 rule by the EC, polling agents who are appointed […]
NEW DELHI: Farmers camping at Delhi borders on Sunday burnt copies of the Centre’s new farm laws they have been protesting against during ‘Holika Dahan’, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha said. The protesting farmers celebrated Holi at the borders and maintained that their agitation will continue till the farm laws are repealed and a separate law […]
New Delhi: Niti Aayog Member Ramesh Chand on Sunday said the target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022 will not be fulfilled if the three new farm laws are not implemented immediately, adding that the protesting farm unions should consider the government’s offer of discussing the legislations clause by clause. In an interview to PTI, […]
DUBAI: On a high after an impressive 1-1 draw against a fancied Oman, India are pitted against the formidable United Arab Emirates in their second football friendly on Monday, with head coach Igor Stimac again set to experiment with a fresh set of rookies. Ten players made their debut against Oman on Thursday as India […]
PARIS: The Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnu Vardhan Goud let slip a strong start to go down to England’s Ben Lane and Sean Vendy in the men’s doubles finals of the Orleans Masters badminton tournament on Sunday. The unheralded Indians, the only ones left in contention from the country on the final […]