New Delhi: India on Thursday said Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of it and no amount of questioning can change the reality, an assertion that came following a letter by the Pakistan foreign minister to two top UN officials over alleging a design by New Delhi to change the demographic composition of the […]
New Delhi: A traveller from Afghanistan has been apprehended by the CISF at the Delhi international airport for carrying about Rs 10 lakh worth Saudi Riyals cash in an alleged unauthorised manner, a senior officer said on Thursday. Rohani Naqibullah, bound for Kabul onboard a Kam Air flight, was intercepted at the terminal-3 of the Indira […]
Madrid: Rafael Nadal will not play at Wimbledon or at the Tokyo Olympics, saying Thursday he has decided to skip the two tournaments after “listening” to his body. Nadal, who reached the French Open semifinals this month but lost to Novak Djokovic, won the title at Wimbledon twice. He also won the Olympic gold medal in […]
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday ordered immediate release of student activists Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal and Asif Iqbal Tanha in the north- east Delhi riots ‘conspiracy’ case. The order came two days after the Delhi High Court granted bail to Narwal, Kalita and Tanha, who were arrested in May last year under […]
New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday told the Supreme Court that the CBSE will be adopting a 30:30:40 formula for evaluation of marks of class 12 students based on results of class 10, 11 and 12 respectively. A bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari was told by Attorney General K K Venugopal […]
New Delhi:A single day rise of 67,208 new coronavirus infections were recorded taking India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases to 2,97,00,313, while the active cases declined to 8,26,740, the lowest after 71 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The COVID-19 death toll climbed to […]
New York: More than 4 million people in the US say they fear being evicted or foreclosed upon in the coming months just as two studies released found that the nation’s housing availability and affordability crisis is expected to worsen significantly following the pandemic. The studies released on Wednesday come as a federal eviction moratorium […]
Beijing: China on Thursday successfully launched its crewed spacecraft, sending three astronauts to its space station’s core module Tianhe for a three-month mission. The Shenzhou-12 spacecraft, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China’s Gobi Desert. The launch was telecast live by the state-run CGTN-TV. […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday called for focus on ‘repair and prepare’ as the nation emerges out of a devastating pandemic. “Over the past year, we have witnessed a lot of disruption in different sectors. Much of it is still there. Yet, disruption does not have to mean despair,” he said at […]
Srinagar: Thirty years of destruction unleashed by human greed and official neglect have killed many of the interconnected water bodies of Srinagar city – once referred to as ‘Venice of Orient’ – but an NGO supported by a group of volunteers and local residents have managed to restore four of these lakes. Manzoor Ahmad Wangnoo, […]