Pakistani boy crosses into Indian side

Pakistani boy crosses into Indian side

An eight-year-old boy from Pakistan mistakenly crossed the Line of Control (LoC) into Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district. The boy was apprehended by the Army in Digwar area in Poonch on Sunday evening. He will be handed over to the police and would be returned to Pakistan after completion of formalities, police said. Two Pakistani […]

Barred from speaking on Governor’s visits, DMK walks out of Assembly

Barred from speaking on Governor’s visits, DMK walks out of Assembly

DMK leader M.K. Stalin on Monday walked out of the Tamil Nadu Assembly along with party colleagues and allies after he was not allowed to raise the issue of Governor Banwarilal Purohit’s controversial visits to various districts. Speaker P. Dhanapal refused permission to Stalin to speak on the issue of Purohit holding review meetings in […]

Paine rates Buttler over Dhoni in white ball cricket

Paine rates Buttler over Dhoni in white ball cricket

Australia skipper Tim Paine has rated England’s Jos Buttler as the “best white-ball wicketkeeper-batsman in the world” and even went on to hail the Englishman as better than India’s World Cup winning former skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Buttler is in the form of his life having single-handedly rescued England from a precarious position with a […]

Here’s first e-course that links gender with environment!

Here’s first e-course that links gender with environment!

Do you want to find out why promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment can help deliver better environmental outcomes? If so, here is the first of its kind online course available for you across 125 countries. The Global Environment Facility (GEF), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) on Monday […]

Jaitley compares Indira Gandhi to Hitler

Jaitley compares Indira Gandhi to Hitler

Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday compared former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who imposed Emergency, to Hitler, stating that both used the Constitution “to transform democracy into dictatorship”. Jaitley, whose second blog of a three-part series coincided with the 43rd anniversary of imposition of the Emergency, also noted that unlike the German dictator, Gandhi went […]

India lends $100 million for Seychelles defence

India lends $100 million for Seychelles defence

India on Monday announced a $100 million line of credit to Seychelles to strengthen its defence capabilities and maritime infrastructure even as the two countries decided to work together in the interest of each other on the controversial deal on Assomption Island, where India wants to build a strategic facility. “I feel pleasure in announcing […]

Monsoon session of Parliament from July 18 to August 10

Monsoon session of Parliament from July 18 to August 10

The monsoon session of Parliament will be held from July 18 to August 10, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar said here on Monday. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs chaired by Home Minister Rajnath Singh. During the session, which will have 18 working days, the government is […]

Four of a family killed in Telangana road accident

Four of a family killed in Telangana road accident

Four members of a family were killed in a road accident in Telangana’s Peddapalle district in early on Friday, police said. A car in which they were travelling rammed into a stationary truck on Hyderabad-Karimnagar Rajiv Rahdari near Katnapally, about 180 km from here. The deceased have been identified as Arun Kumar, his wife Soumya […]

Europe ends Greece’s 8-year bailout saga

Europe ends Greece’s 8-year bailout saga

The Finance Ministers of the Eurozone, the Eurogroup, has reached an agreement that will put an end to Greece’s third bailout program, the French Finance Minister said. The agreement will end the eight-year debt-relief program for Greece, in which the country received 300 billion euros in three financial assistance programs as agreed in 2010, 2011 […]

Pentagon asked to house migrant minors

Pentagon asked to house migrant minors

The Pentagon has been asked to supply up to 20,000 beds at old military bases for migrant children held after illegally entering the US, a media report said. Beds will be for migrant children who crossed the border unaccompanied, as well as those separated from parents, the BBC reported. The moves follow US President Donald […]