United Nations, March 10 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appointed British lawmaker Stephen O’Brien as the new UN humanitarian aid chief, a UN spokesperson said on Monday. He will succeed Valerie Amos and serve as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Xinhua reported citing […]
Washington, March 10 Pakistan had about 120 atomic weapons, 10 more than India, in its nuclear arsenal last year, according to a new interactive infographic unveiled by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Designed by the Bulletin, founded in 1945 by University of Chicago scientists who had helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan […]
Moscow, March 10 Russian authorities confirmed on Monday to have detained two more suspects in connection with the assassination of Russian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov, according to media reports. The two suspects were caught in a special operation carried out on Sunday evening in Shelkovskoy district of Russia’s Chechen Republic, Xinhua […]
London, March 9 Various events were held across the world on Sunday to celebrate the International Women’s Day. British singers Annie Lennox and Paloma Faith were joined by actress Gemma Arterton at a march in London to demand respect for women’s rights. Hundreds of feminists, including some dressed like the suffragettes of the early 20th […]
Mumbai, March 9 A benchmark index of Indian equities markets, the 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), plunged 327.55 points or 1.11 percent as banking stocks plummeted on Monday. The wider 50-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading at 104.55 points or 1.17 percent down at 8,833.20 points. The Sensex of the S&P […]
Patna, March 9 Two policemen shot each other dead, following an argument on Monday in Bihar, police said. The incident took place at Bikram block office in Patna, where they were on duty, Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Jitendra Rana said. “We have started the investigation to ascertain the actual reason behind the incident,” he […]
Ghaziabad, March 8 Four children were burnt to death in Ghaziabad on Sunday afternoon when fire crackers kept inside a car in which they were sitting exploded, police said. The incident took place in Farookh Nagar locality in Sahibabad. Police said the explosion took place in the car in which fire crackers were kept to […]
The Taj Mahal on Sunday had special visitors — widows from Vrindavan and Varanasi.As the women, dressed in white sarees, walked on the red sandstone pathways in twos and threes, foreign tourists stopped and got themselves photographed with them.The visit on the International Women’s Day was sponsored by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). The […]
Protests by BJP, a ruling coalition partner in Jammu and Kashmir, and the opposition Congress continued here on Sunday against the release of separatist leader Masrat Alam by Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed’s government.Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers staged a protest here and in the border district of Poonch against Alam’s release.Protesting BJP workers demanded […]
New Delhi/Canberra, March 8 An Indian woman IT consultant, employed with Bengaluru-based tech firm MindTree,was stabbed to death while she was walking home from work in the Australiancity of Sydney, police said on Sunday.Prabha Arun, in her 40s, was attacked at Amos Street in the western part of the cityabout 9.30 p.m. on Saturday. She […]