Gurgaon, Oct 2 (IANS) The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and HRD minister Smriti Irani seeking their intervention into the immolation attempt by a college girl here. ABVP activists at a meeting in sector 12 demanded high-level inquiry into the self-immolation attempt by Pinky Chauhan a student of the […]
Stockholm, Oct 2 (IANS) Stefan Lofven, head of the Social Democratic Party, was Thursday voted by parliament to be the new Swedish prime minister. Lofven got 132 “yes” votes in the 349-seat Parliament, with 49 “no” votes, 154 abstentions while 14 other members were absent, Xinhua reported citing Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. The 154 abstentions came […]
Incheon, Oct 2 (IANS) Indian runners Rahul Kumar Pal and Suresh Kumar set their personal best times to finish a creditable fourth and fifth in the men’s 10,000 metres final at the Asian Games here Thursday. Bahrain’s Elhassan Elabbassi finished the race in 28 minutes and 11.2 seconds to clinch the gold from Japan’s Osako Suguru, […]
Incheon, Oct 2 (IANS) India’s Inderjeet Singh took home the bronze medal from the men’s shot put final at the Asian Games here Thursday. The Indian’s best throw of 19.63 metres came on his fifth attempt, out of six, to surprisingly clinch the medal at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium. Saudi Arabia’s Sultan Abdulmajeed Alhebshi set […]
Bhubaneswar, Oct 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Clean India drive received mixed response Thursday in Odisha. While central government offices organised the cleaning drive, the state government, its ministers, and officials preferred to stay away from the campaign. Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the campaign in state capital Bhubaneswar and wielded the broom, symbolically, […]
Sydney Oct 2 (IANS/EFE) A 23-year-old surfer lost one of his arms and his other hand in a shark attack Thursday at a beach near Esperance in Western Australia, official sources reported. The youth was attacked in the waters off the Wylie Bay beach and was immediately rushed to hospital in the city of Esperance, from […]
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) It was a sunny, warm Thursday in the national capital with the maximum temperature settling three notches above average at 36.7 degree Celsius. The Met office has forecast a partly cloudy Dussehra Friday. “The sky would be partly cloudy Friday,” said an official of the India Meteorological Department. The maximum and […]
Incheon, Oct 2 (IANS) India’s campaign in Asian Games boxing ended Thursday with Vikas Krishan and Satish Kumar settling for the bronze medals after losing their respective semi-final bouts to Kazakhstan pugilists at the Seonhak Gymnasium here. In the men’s 75 kg category last-four match, Vikas went down to Zhanibek Alimkhanuly while Satish, plying his trade […]
Mumbai, Oct 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will kick off his Maharashtra assembly election campaign with a weekender rally in Mumbai, party sources said Thursday. The Bharatiya Janata Party rally will be addressed by Modi Saturday evening 7 p.m. at the Mahalaxmi Race Course in south Mumbai. Top state and central BJP leaders are expected […]
Los Angeles, Oct 2 (IANS) Singer Selena Gomez was recently caught walking through Los Angeles International Airport with her zipper undone. Gomez seemed completely oblivious to the fact, flashing a smile as she made her way through the shutterbugs, reports eonline.com. Gomez, who was returning from Paris, had attended the Louis Vuitton show at the Paris […]