Jerusalem, Sep 25 (IANS/EFE) At least 20 Palestinians and four Israelis were injured Wednesday when clashes broke out at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, a holy place to Jews and Muslims. Palestinian youths battled with Israeli police following the visit of Israel’s ultranationalist Housing Minister, Uri Ariel, to Temple Mount early Wednesday. The Jewish New […]
Sanaa, Sep 25 (IANS/EFE) The toll in last week’s heavy fighting between Shia Houthi rebels and government forces in Yemen’s capital Sanaa has risen to 270, as rescue teams recovered more bodies, authorities said Wednesday. At least 270 bodies of civilians and military personnel have been recovered in the neighbourhoods of north and west Sanaa where […]
London, Sep 25 (IANS) Actress Julianne Moore isn’t a fan of the liquid-only diet and says she had tried the celeb-loved trend with no success. “I did a juice cleanse for the Golden Globes one year. I think I did it for three days. To be honest, the only weight I lost was in my brain,” […]
Beijing, Sep 25 (IANS) China Wednesday voiced firm opposition after the US state department slammed the life sentence given to a scholar from Uygur ethnic group for separatism in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. “Ilham Tohti’s crime is clear, with solid evidence,” Xinhua quoted Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying as saying, adding that the case […]
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) The rural development ministry would Thursday announce a reworked skill development scheme aimed at providing quality training and placement opportunities to poor youth from rural areas and taking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in India” vision forward. Officials said the reworked scheme – Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojna (DDUGKY) – […]
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday cancelled 214 coal blocks allocated from 1993 to 2011, except four vested with the NTPC, SAIL and Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP). The court also imposed an additional levy of Rs.295 per tonne of coal extracted from exempted or operational mines. The four coal blocks that […]
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Wednesday said the government will begin the coal block allocation again on a “clean slate”. “We will begin on a clean slate,” Prasad said when asked about the order on deallocation of coal blocks by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court Wednesday cancelled all the coal […]
Baghdad, Sep 24 (IANS) At least 59 people were killed in separate airstrikes and clashes with the Islamic State (IS) militants across Iraq Wednesday, while the militants blew two archeological and religious sites in Salahudin province, security sources said. In Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, Iraqi security forces backed by Shia militias recaptured two villages of […]
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) The government has decided to withdraw the controversial Higher Education and Research Bill, 2011, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Wednesday. “There was a bill much in controversy, the higher education research bill 2011. A parliamentary standing committee also had objection on the bill,” Prasad said, briefing reporters after a meeting […]
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) No blood was detected on the electric iron, stick and metallic horns which were allegedly used by former parliamentarian Dhananjay Singh’s wife to beat her domestic helps, police told a court here. Police on Sep 6 had filed a supplementary chargesheet containing Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) report in the maid torture-and-death […]