Around 57 percent of 13.5 million electorate voted on Monday in 49 of the 243 constituencies in the first round of battle for political power in Bihar. The two main fronts soon claimed victory. It marked the start of an intense five-phase contest that will end on November 5 and whose outcome — to be […]
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Scottish micro-economist Angus Deaton, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced here on Monday. According to an academy statement, Deaton, 69, was awarded “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare”, Xinhua news agency reported. “More than anyone else, Angus Deaton has enhanced the understanding […]
Clashes erupted in parts of Srinagar on Monday over an attack on a truck in Udhampur, as a shutdown called by the separatists affected life across the Kashmir Valley. Group of youths pelted stones at police and paramilitary forces in many areas of the old city Srinagar, forcing the security forces to baton-charge and lob […]
Sydney, Oct 12, A bill to penalise the distribution of sexually explicit images or videos of people without their consent, or revenge porn, was tabled in the Australian parliament on Monday. The bill, introduced by opposition labour MP Tim Watts, aims to fight violence, mostly against women, and proposes up to three years of imprisonment […]
NSW Minister for Transport Andrew Constance, Minister for Roads Duncan Gay and CBD Coordinator General Marg Prendergast have thanked Sydney bus customers and motorists for adapting to Sydney’s CBD transport changes, and asked for vigilance with 10 days left until the first block of George Street closes for light rail construction. “Bus customers have responded […]
Following Friday’s attack on a Kashmir Valley-bound truck in Udhampur, the Indian Army on Sunday intensified patrolling along the Jammu-Srinagar highway to keep anti-social elements at bay. “The army has intensified patrolling on the Jammu-Srinagar highway to prevent any untoward incident,” top sources in the army told IANS here. “Immediately after the unfortunate event in […]
The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) is making a beginning in Bihar by contesting six seats in the assembly elections but it won’t be a symbolic fight, says party chief Asaduddin Owaisi. “It’s a serious fight and we have entered the electoral fray to win,” the third-time Hyderabad MP told IANS in an interview at Darussalam, the […]
What do Ram, Krishna, Shayam, Shiv, Shatrughan, Arjun, Shakuni, Subhash Chandra Bose and Prahlad have in common — all are candidates contesting the Bihar assembly election. There are many candidates named after Hindu god Ram, while in many places Shayam and Krishna are contesting against Shiv. Candidates with names of other mythological icons like Arjun, […]
India will continue to support separate statehood for Palestine while also engaging with Israel to forge an independent and long-standing bilateral relationship, President Pranab Mukherjee said here on Sunday. Continuing his meetings with the Jordanian leadership on the second day of his visit here, Mukherjee was candid in saying India’s relations with Palestine and Israel […]
Raising their voice against rising “intolerance” and “suppressing freedom of expression“, four eminent Punjabi writers on Sunday announced that they were returning the Sahitya Akademi Awards conferred on them. The writers who announced giving up their literary awards included Ajmer Singh Aulakh, Atamjit Singh, Gurbachan Bhullar and Canada-based writer Waryam Sandhu. The litterateurs said that […]