Delhi Police raids office, premises connected to news portal NewsClick, its journalists

Delhi Police raids office, premises connected to news portal NewsClick, its journalists

New Delhi: Delhi Police’s Special Cell on Tuesday searched 30 locations connected with online news portal NewsClick and its journalists in a case filed under the anti-terror law UAPA following allegations that it received money for pro-China propaganda. Police said no one has been arrested so far in the searches concentrated in the Delhi-NCR region. […]

Hyundai Motor India says all its vehicles to come with 6 airbags

New Delhi: Hyundai Motor India on Tuesday said all its models in the country would now come with six airbags as standard. The automaker also announced that it has decided for voluntary participation in the recently introduced Bharat NCAP with 3 models to begin with, and more models to follow. Under the Bharat NCAP programme, […]

Lankan president rejects int’l probe into Easter bombings, slams West for its double standards

Lankan president rejects int’l probe into Easter bombings, slams West for its double standards

Colombo: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has ruled out having an international-aided independent probe into the 2019 Easter bombings by a local Islamist extremist group as he slammed the Western media for its double standards. Nine suicide bombers belonging to the local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) linked to ISIS carried out a […]

Trudeau says Canada going through ‘extremely challenging time’ with India

Trudeau says Canada going through ‘extremely challenging time’ with India

Vows to engage constructively Toronto: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday said Canada was going through an “extremely challenging time” with India but asserted that Ottawa will continue to have “constructive relations” with New Delhi, amid the diplomatic row between the two countries over the killing of a Khalistani separatist. Speaking to reporters in Ottawa, […]

Sri Lanka to have deals with India, Bangladesh govts for medicine imports

Colombo: The Sri Lankan government will stop emergency purchases of medicine and will enter into government-to-government contracts with India and Bangladesh to curb alleged corruption in the procurement of drugs, Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said on Tuesday. Sri Lanka’s health sector trade unions have been running a campaign against alleged large-scale corruption in medicine imports […]

Two earthquakes hit Nepal, tremors in Delhi-NCR

New Delhi: Two earthquakes of magnitude 4.6 and 6.2 jolted Nepal at an interval of 25 minutes, with strong tremors travelling to Delhi-NCR and parts of north India, the National Centre for Seismology said on Tuesday. An official said the first quake of magnitude 4.6 hit Nepal at a depth of 10 kilometre at 2:25 […]

Rain washes out India’s second warm-up match

Thiruvananthapuram: India’s second World Cup warm up match against Netherland was washed out due to incessant rain here on Tuesday. The game was abandoned without a ball being bowled. The hosts’ first warm up game against England also met with a similar fate in Guwahati last week. India is thus the only team that heads […]

Indian economy to grow at 6.3 pc in FY24: World Bank

New Delhi/ Washington : The Indian economy is projected to grow at 6.3 per cent in current financial year aided by investment and domestic demand. According to a World Bank report released on Tuesday, India continues to show resilience against the backdrop of a challenging global environment. In India, which accounts for the bulk of […]

Delhi Police raids office, premises connected to news portal NewsClick, its journalists

New Delhi: Delhi Police’s Special Cell on Tuesday searched 30 locations connected with online news portal NewsClick and its journalists in a case filed under the anti-terror law UAPA following allegations that it received money for pro-China propaganda. Some journalists, including Urmilesh and Abhishar Sharma, were taken to the Lodhi Road Special Cell office but […]