UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wants Rohingya refugees helped “regardless of politics,” his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said Tuesday in reply to a question about India’s policy on those fleeing Myanmar. Dujarric said that the reports about Rohingya’s plight and pictures of them fleeing were heart-rending and these are very vulnerable people and deserved to be helped. […]
Bharti Airtel and Korea’s telecommunications company SK Telecom on Wednesday announced a strategic partnership to build advanced telecom network in India. The partnership will work across several areas, including developing software to dramatically improve network experience, leveraging advanced digital tools including machine learning, big data and building customized tools, to improve network planning based on […]
Tim Watts MP, the Federal Member for Gellibrand needs no introduction. The division of Gellibrand is located in Melbourne’s inner west and is one of Victoria’s fastest growing and culturally diverse places. It spans from Williamstown on Port Phillip Bay to the Maribyrnong River in the east to Altona Meadows in the west. Tim Watts […]
Pakistan is effectively pursuing Kulbhushan Jadhav’s case in the International Court of Justice as it is proof of Indias intentions to sabotage the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) through “terrorism”, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Tuesday. Speaking to the media, Iqbal said the CPEC was the result of unprecedented friendship between China and Pakistan. […]
More than a month after joining hands with the BJP to form a new government, Bihar’s ruling JD-U on Tuesday said that party is ready for mid-term assembly polls along with the Lok Sabha polls in 2019. Impressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity, JD-U state President Bashistha Narain Singh told the media: “We are […]
A special trial court here on Tuesday directed BJP President Amit Shah to appear as a witness for Maya Kodnani, a former BJP leader and minister in the then Narendra Modi government in Gujarat in a 2002 riot case in the city where 11 Muslims were killed. Kodnani is a convict in the biggest massacre […]
The ruling AIADMK’s General Council on Tuesday annulled the appointment of V.K. Sasikala as the party’s General Secretary and also struck down the appointments made by her before going to jail, including making her nephew T.T.V. Dinakaran the party Deputy General Secretary. In other major decisions, the General Council altered the party’s organisational structure to […]
The High Commission of India, Canberra, taking note of the protests of Indian community in Australia, have made a demarche to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Department of Communication and Arts and Department of Agriculture bringing to their notice an offensive advertisement by Meat and Livestock Australia that hurt the religious sentiments of […]
Broadly positive Asian markets and the government’s push for faster non-performing assets (NPA) resolution buoyed the Indian equity markets during the early morning trade session on Friday. According to market observers, healthy buying was witnessed in consumer durables, capital goods and metal stocks. Around 9.30 a.m., the wider 51-scrip Nifty50 of the National Stock Exchange […]
Cuban authorities have evacuated 700,000 people from the country’s northeastern coast ahead of the category 5 hurricane Irma hitting the island nation, authorities said. The eye of the hurricane was expected to pass between the island of Hispaniola, home to Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and the Turks and Caicos Islands early Friday morning, reports […]