After a gap for over 80 years, the black bear has returned to Nevada’s Great Basin in the US through conservation with their population believed to be over 500, a new study said on Wednesday. The study from Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the Nevada Department of Wildlife and the University of Nevada-Reno finds that conservation […]
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on Tuesday said it has raised $800 million by selling 10-year bonds in the first offering since Moody’s last week raised India’s sovereign rating after 14 years. According to a Mukesh Ambani-led RIL release here, the bonds, priced at 3.66 per cent, were the lowest coupon ever achieved by an Indian […]
A Haryana BJP leader was booked on Tuesday for threatening to behead Bollywood filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali and actress Deepika Padukone over their movie “Padmavati” and for standing firm by his announcement of a Rs 10 crore reward for it. Haryana’s chief media coordinator Kunwar Surajpal Singh Ammu was booked under Section 506 (criminal intimidation) […]
The Narendra Modi government is planning to bring a bill in the winter session of Parliament banning “triple talaq” (instant divorce), government sources said on Tuesday. For this, the government plans to set up a group of ministers to work out the modalities of the legislation and its various implications. The Supreme Court had banned […]
A sessions court here on Tuesday granted bail to bus conductor Ashok Kumar, who was arrested by the Haryana Police on the charge of killing Class two student Pradhuman Thakur. Additional District and Session Judge Rajni Yadav granted bail to Ashok on furnishing a Rs 50,000 bail bond. Pradhuman, aged seven, was found on September […]
At least 50 people were killed when a teenage suicide bomber blew up his vest packed with explosives in a crowded mosque in Nigeria’s Mubi town, police said. A police official said the dawn attack took place after the prayers at the mosque in Adamawa state, Xinhua news agency reported. “We have 50 dead and […]
A court on Tuesday rejected the CBI’s plea seeking consent for lie detection test of nine students in connection with the missing Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Najeeb Ahmed. Ahmed, 27, an M.Sc First Year student, went missing on October 15 last year after an alleged fight with the members of the RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya […]
Military operations against terrorists in Syria are coming to an end, with the focus shifting to a search for a political solution, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said as he hosted his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in Sochi. Putin met Assad on Monday ahead of a trilateral summit with the leaders of Turkey and Iran […]
Former Chilean President Sebastian Pinera is leading the presidential election, with 22.78 per cent of votes counted, Chile’s Electoral Service said. “In democracy, all must have the opportunity to freely express their opinion, without resorting to violence,” Xinhua news agency quoted Pinera as saying earlier upon voting in Santiago. The 2017 election in Chile stands […]
Spain’s Ambassador to Argentina, Javier Sandomingo, has confirmed that efforts are underway to repatriate Spanish Attorney General Jose Manuel Maza’s body to Madrid early this week on a regular commercial flight. “At present, we don’t have all the procedures finalized, but we think that that is what’s possible and foreseeable,” Efe news quoted the diplomat […]