August 2024

BENGALURU: Nobel laureate and the head of the caretaker government in Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus, is flying back to his country on Thursday. A day before his departure from Paris, he asked the students in Bangladesh to shun violence and…

ANKARA: Turkey on Wednesday filed a request with a U.N. court to join South Africa's lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, the foreign minister said. Turkey's ambassador to the Netherlands, accompanied by a group of Turkish…

KATHMANDU, Nepal: All five people on board a helicopter were killed when it crashed Wednesday in the mountains just northwest of Nepal’s capital, authorities said. The bodies of four men and a woman were pulled from the wreckage, said…

COLOMBO: Namal Rajapaksa, the 38-year-old heir to the Rajapaksa dynasty, was on Wednesday named as the SLPP candidate for the presidential election, thus officially ending Rajapaksa family's backing to the incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe.…

LONDON: British police are gearing up for another night of violence amid concerns that far-right groups plan to target as many as 30 locations around the United Kingdom on Wednesday following a week of rioting and disorder. Authorities…

NEW DELHI: Non-essential staffers at the Indian High Commission in Dhaka and their family members are returning to India on a voluntary basis through commercial flights, official sources said on Wednesday. However, all Indian diplomats…

चंडीगढ़: फेफड़े की गंभीर बीमारी से पीड़ित 36 वर्षीय मरीज को हाल ही में मैक्स अस्पताल, मोहाली में यूनिपोर्टलवीडियो-असिस्टेड थोरैकोस्कोपिक सर्जरी (वैट) सर्जिकल तकनीक से नया जीवन मिला। मरीज को गंभीर हालत में सांस लेने में तकलीफ के साथ भर्ती…

चंडीगढ़:  बुधवार को जूरी ब्यूटी, बिगबॉक्स और मॉर्फ मेटा एकेडमी में तीज का त्योहार उत्साह और उमंग के साथ मनाया गया।  अकादमी छात्रों और स्टाफ ने भारतीय संस्कृति को दर्शाते हुए चमकदार पारंपरिक परिधान पहने। झूलों को फूलों से सजाया गया था।…

चंडीगढ़ :   हिमाचल महासभा,  चंडीगढ़ (पंजीकृत) का 3 साल का कार्यकाल समाप्त हो रहा है तथा 1 सितंबर को नए अध्यक्ष के चुनाव होने जा रहे हैं, आज सात अगस्त 2024, बुधवार को शाम 6:00 बजे निर्वाचन अधिकारी  शिविंदर मांधोत्रा  के समक्ष हिमाचल…

NEW DELHI: National Commission for Women (NCW) Chairperson Rekha Sharma stepped down from her post after her tenure came to an end on Tuesday. 60-year-old Sharma assumed the role of women's commission chief on August 7, 2018. She was…

DEHRADUN: More than 230 stranded pilgrims were evacuated as rescue operations on the landslide-hit Kedarnath route in Uttarakhand continued for the sixth day on Tuesday, officials said. Though poor weather conditions and low visibility…

NEW DELHI: Amid walkout by the Opposition, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday reiterated the government’s commitment to address the farmers’ issues through dialogue. Dubbing the Congress “anti-farmers” who…

GUWAHATI: As the civil unrest in Bangladesh continues, Assam, Tripura, Mizoram and Meghalaya have heightened security along the international border. Bihar has also issued an alert in the districts situated close to the Bangladesh border.…

SRINAGAR: Even as additional troops have been rushed to the Jammu region and security tightened to tackle the growing militancy, an encounter broke out between militants and security forces in the forest area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur…

MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) President and Maha Vikas Agadi (MVA) ally Uddhav Thackeray arrived in Delhi on Tuesday and is expected to urge his alliance partners—Congress and NCP (SP)—to declare him as the chief ministerial candidate for the…

New Delhi: The Centre is in close and continuous touch with the Indian community in Bangladesh through diplomatic missions, said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. There are an estimated 19,000 Indian nationals in Bangladesh of…

NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leader and former deputy prime minister L K Advani was on Tuesday admitted to a leading private hospital in Delhi, sources said. His medical condition is stable, they said. The 96-year-old, who was born in…

NEW DELHI: Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday took a jibe at the Trinamool Congress (TMC)-led government in West Bengal, questioning whether any state would want to implement its model in the context of containing Left Wing Extremism.…