August 2021

SUPREME COURT on Wednesday issued notice on a plea to quash the July 27 notification of the West Bengal government setting up a two-member panel to inquire into allegations of use of Pegasus spyware for illegal surveillance. A bench of…

India and Bangladesh have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the field of disaster management, resilience and mitigation, the government said on Wednesday. “The MoU seeks to put in place a system, whereby both…

Keeping in mind the Assembly elections, which are less than a year to go, the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday presented a supplementary budget of Rs 7,301.52 crore to meet its additional expenditure in the current fiscal with a…

Jammu, Aug 18 (UNI) Senior BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder Gupta on Wednesday condemned the vandalization of Maharaja Ranjit Singh statue in the Pakistan stating that the country has proved to be a failed state which is…

Kabul, Aug 18 (UNI) Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country after the Taliban takeover on Sunday, has been “welcomed” in the UAE, the country’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday. The UAE foreign ministry, in a brief…

Berlin, Aug 18 (UNI/Sputnik) Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) have overtaken the  Greens, polling at 21%, just 2 points behind Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives (CDU/CSU), a survey showed on Wednesday. This is the closest the…

New Delhi, Aug 18 (UNI) Core group of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) expressed serious concerns over the slow pace of reforms in the criminal justice system to ensure speedy justice during a meeting held on Wednesday. The…

“Why are you crying?” is something we ask and most of the time receive an answer to, unless someone doesn’t feel like telling us, or they simply don’t know why. This is a common question that parents may ask their children, but most often,…

Kakinada, Aug 18 (UNI) The Kakinada sub divisional police, acting on intelligence inputs received from the SP Ravindranath Babu, on Wednesday intercepted a lorry loaded with coconuts near Thatiparty Morta Bus shelter on the national highway…

Moscow, Aug 18 (UNI/SPUTNIK) The Taliban (a terrorist organization, banned in Russia) should show by their actions that they have changed their ways and that they are committed to making Afghanistan a safe place, French Foreign Minister…

Most vehicles have a rubber belt on the front of the engine that drives accessories such as the air-conditioning compressor, power steering pump and alternator. If this accessory drive belt (also called a V-belts or serpentine belts)…

New Delhi, Aug 17 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday virtually interacted with the Indian para-athlete contingent, who will represent the country in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, scheduled be held between August 24 and September…