COLOMBO: A high-tech Chinese research ship docked at the strategically important Hambantota port departed from Sri Lankan waters on Monday after a controversial six-day visit. The ballistic missile and satellite tracking ship ‘Yuan Wang 5’ ship was originally scheduled to arrive at the Chinese-run port on August 11 but it was delayed in the absence […]
SEOUL: The United States and South Korea began their biggest combined military training in years Monday as they heighten their defense posture against the growing North Korean nuclear threat. The drills could draw an angry response from North Korea, which has dialed up its weapons testing activity to a record pace this year while repeatedly […]
ASUNCION (Paraguay): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has unveiled a bust of Mahatma Gandhi in Paraguay and visited the historic Casa de la Independencia from where the South American country’s Independence movement started more than two centuries ago. Jaishankar arrived in Brazil on the first leg of his six-day visit to South America aimed at […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani police have filed terrorism charges against former Prime Minister Imran Khan, authorities said Monday, escalating political tensions in the country as the ousted premier holds mass rallies seeking to return to the office. The terrorism charges come over a speech Khan gave in Islamabad on Saturday in which he vowed to sue police […]
Varanasi: The Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee on Monday presented its rejoinder in the Gyanvapi-Shringar Gauri complex case in the district court and the arguments will continue till Tuesday, according to a government counsel. District government counsel Rana Sanjeev Singh said advocate Shamim Ahmed presented the rejoinder in the court of District Judge A K Vishvesh […]
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Monday said it has attached assets worth more than Rs 30 crore of a former managing director of Assam-based Industrial Cooperative Bank Ltd. as part of a money laundering probe. The action has been taken against Subhra Jyoti Bharali, who was arrested in June by the agency in connection […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the operation of a Delhi High Court order relating to registration of an FIR against BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain on a woman’s complaint alleging rape. A bench headed by Justice U U Lalit issued notice and sought responses, including from the Delhi government, on Hussain’s plea and […]
New Delhi: The committee on Minimum Support Price (MSP) formed four sub-groups on mandated topics, including making “MSP more effective and transparent” in its first meeting on Monday but Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) remained absent. The committee, headed by former agriculture secretary Sanjay Agrawal, discussed ways to “promote zero budget based farming”, to “change” crop […]
New Delhi: Minster of State for Textiles and Railways Smt. Darshana Vikram Jardosh inaugurated the SILK MARK EXPO, in the presence of Shri. Upendra Prasad Singh, Secretary, Ministry of Textiles ( MOT) and Shri. Rajit Ranjan Okhandiar IFS, CEO & Member Secretary, Central Silk Board, MOT here today. The exihibition is organised by Silk Mark […]
NEW DELHI: In a desperate move to get the FIFA ban on AIFF revoked, the central government on Sunday moved an application in the Supreme Court, seeking an end to the “mandate” of the Committee of Administrators (CoA), as demanded by the world governing body. The sports ministry’s move, a day before a crucial hearing […]