The army on Friday ordered a Court of Inquiry against Major L. Gogoi who was detained along with a local girl by police for questioning from a hotel here this week. “Army has ordered a Court of Inquiry against Major Gogoi of 53 Rashtriya Rifles regarding an incident that occurred on May 23. “If found […]
The Karnataka government led by Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Friday won the confidence motion with a voice vote in the new Assembly after opposition BJP members walked out ahead of the floor test. “The confidence motion has been put to vote and won by a voice vote in favour of Kumaraswamy,” declared newly elected […]
H.D. Kumaraswamy was on Wednesday sworn in as the 25th Chief Minister of Karnataka at the head of a JD-S-Congress coalition government here in a ceremony that brought together leaders of anti-BJP parties on a single platform exactly a year ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The event showcased rare scenes of bonhomie between […]
The US has expelled two Venezuelan diplomats, ordering them to leave the country within 48 hours, in a retaliatory move against Caracas’s decision to remove two American diplomats, the media reported. The Venezuelan Charge d’Affaires in Washington D.C., Carlos Ron Ramirez, and the deputy consul general of the Venezuelan consulate in Houston were declared personae […]
The US has withdrawn an invitation to China to participate in what has been described as the world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise, the Pentagon has announced. A Pentagon spokesman said in a statement on Wednesday that “China’s behaviour is inconsistent with the principles and purposes of the RIMPAC exercise”, and it has “disinvited the […]
Broadly positive Asian markets, along with value buying lifted the key Indian equity indices during the morning trade session on Thursday. According to market observers, healthy buying was witnessed in IT, capital goods, consumer durables and banking stocks. Around 9.25 a.m., the broader Nifty50 of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) traded at 10,468.05 points — […]
A massive blaze broke out near a hospital here on Thursday morning, a fire department official said. The official said they received a call at around 2.40 a.m., and 20 fire tenders were pressed into service to extinguish the blaze that broke out in a building behind the Dharamshila Narayana Superspeciality Hospital in Vasundhara Enclave. […]
The annual pilgrimage to the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine remained suspended for a second consecutive day on Thursday following a forest fire, police said. Around 25,000 pilgrims were currently stranded at the Katra base camp for clearance to start the uphill trek to the shrine located in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district. However, helicopter services […]
There is absolutely no single formula that can restore the consumers trust in technology companies, at a time when data breaches are growing multifold, cyber threats are getting worse and people are monitoring what steps the tech firms are taking to secure their digital lives, a top HP executive has stressed. According to Shane Wall, […]
The US government has unveiled fresh sanctions against five Iranian individuals linked to the country’s military who are supporting anti-government forces in Yemen. The US Office of Foreign Assets Control issued the sanctions on charges that the elite Revolutionary Guard Corps have provided ballistic missile-related technology to Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Following the sanctions, all property […]