New Delhi, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is saddened by the death of veteran actor Saeed Jaffrey, who passed away at the age of 86. He says losing the star, who brought shine to showbiz with his craft through films likes “Gandhi” and “Shatranj Ke Khilari”, is a big loss to the film […]
Paris, Counter-terrorism units launched coordinated raids across France and arrested at least nine people in connection with the deadly Paris attacks, a media report said on Monday. Monday’s early morning raids took place in Calais, Toulouse, Paris, Jeumont and Grenoble where police blocked streets and searched houses looking for suspects involved in Friday’s attacks, which […]
New Delhi, Baba Ramdev-promoted Patanjali on Monday formally launched its whole wheat instant noodles, just a week after product leader Nestle’s Maggi re-hit the retail shelves after a five-month ban imposed by the food-safety regulator. The “atta” noodle has been priced at Rs.15 for a 70-gram pack. With the launch, Patanjali has entered another major […]
London, After the terror strikes in Paris, we now know what a Mumbai-style terror attack looks like, said a British daily, adding that “this is war in which we are all equally at risk”. An editorial “Paris attacks: It’s war, but not as we know it” in the Independent said on Monday that “course of […]
Chennai, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Monday termed the reason for fuel price hike as unjustifiable when there is no change in the international price of crude oil. PMK founder S. Ramadoss accused the central government and the oil marketing companies of cheating the public. The statements came as oil companies on Sunday […]
Islamabad, Pakistan does not see Kashmir dispute as a geographical or border issue, but an unfinished agenda of the 1947 Partition plan, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said. Sharif made the remark in a letter to chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat Syeda Asiya Andrabi, The Nation reported on Monday. In the letter, he reaffirmed Pakistan’s policy of […]
Paris, A huge manhunt is under way for surviving members and accomplices of the Islamist group suspected to be involved in the Paris terror attacks that killed 129 people and left 350 others injured, media reports said on Monday. Police have named Belgium-born French national Salah Abdeslam, 26, as a key suspect. He was reportedly […]
India’s annual rate of inflation, based on wholesale prices, inched up to (-)3.81 percent for October from (-)4.54 percent for the month before, mainly on account of a whopping 86-percent spike in the prices of onions and 53 percent in pulses over the past year. According to the data on official wholesale prices index released […]
Washington, Taking the stage a day after the deadly terrorist strike in Paris, Hillary Clinton in direct contrast with President Barack Obama asserted that ISIS “cannot be contained” but instead must be “defeated.” “We have to look at ISIS as the leading threat of an international terror network. It cannot be contained, it must be […]
Beijing, China’s People’s Daily has condemned the Paris attacks in a commentary on Sunday, saying terrorist attacks against civilians are a blatant and extreme violation of basic human rights and civilization. The article said extremism and terrorism are spreading across the world, and terrorist attacks resulting in massive civilian casualties have become more frequent, reported […]