Jaipur, Nov 22 (IANS) Over 65 percent of 63.29 lakh voters cast their votes in Saturday’s elections for 46 civic bodies in Rajasthan including the Jaipur Municipal Corporation, officials said. The voting percentage was higher than 61.79 percent recorded five years back “The voting, which was held was held from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., […]
Baghdad, Nov 22 (IANS) Iraqi security forces launched a major offensive against Islamic State (IS) militants in the western province of Anbar Saturday, even as fighting continued in the province of Salahudin, a security source said. In Anbar province security forces backed by allied tribal fighters and aircraft launched a major offensive against the IS […]
Kathmandu, Nov 22 (IANS) Nepal Police shot dead an Indian national along the Nepal-India border while he was smuggling weapons from India. The incident took place Saturday afternoon in Bishnupura village of Rupandhei district, 20 km south from Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha. Rajendra Dhakal, superintendent of police in Rupandhei district, said an Indian […]
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan Saturday held an all-party meeting to ensure smooth functioning of parliament during the winter session beginning Monday. Leaders of political parties in the Lok Sabha attended the meeting. It was, however, not attended by the Trinamool Congress, sources said. It was followed by dinner which […]
Panaji, Nov 22 (IANS) Over 100 Malayalam films are made every year, but it is not a cash rich industry. The new producers of Kerala often sell property or borrow money to make films, says a distributor from the southern state. “The total investment on films last year was Rs.300 crore. And most new producers […]
Washington, Nov 21 (IANS/EFE) The US Department of Defense has reported that five prisoners from the US military detention center in Guantanamo, Cuba, have been transferred to Georgia and Slovakia. Three of them, identified as Salah Mohammed Salih Al-Dhabi, Abdel Ghaib Ahmad Hakim and Abdul Khaled Al-Baydani were sent to Georgia, while two others, Hashim […]
New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) India will host the 11th International Inter-Ministerial Conference on Population and Development in Delhi Nov 25-26 to promote cooperation on reproductive health and development. The conference will be organised by the ministry of health and family welfare. It will focus on issues like understanding demographic dividend and improving the financing […]
Mathura, Nov 21 (IANS) Six unidentified armed bandits looted Rs. 30 lakh in broad daylight from a branch of the Syndicate Bank on at Chaumuhan town on the Delhi-Mathura national highway, police said. Police said a customer and a bank official were injured in the scuffle with the robbers. Senior police officers, including the inspector […]
Bengaluru, Nov 21 (IANS) As the temperature dropped in the Sree Kanteerava Indoor Stadium after overnight repairs to the air-conditioning unit, there was a quantum jump in the quality of play as jostling began for knockout berths in the IBSF World Snooker Championship here Friday. Thailand’s Boonyarit Keattikun crafted two century breaks of 100 and […]
Islamabad, Nov 21 (IANS/EFE) Three more babies died Friday due to lack of oxygen in incubators in a hospital in eastern Pakistan, bringing the number of infant deaths to 15, an official source told Efe news agency. The deaths of the premature babies occurred over the last two days at the university hospital of Sargodha […]