German Chancellor Angela Merkel has won the single pre-election televised debate against her opponent Martin Schulz ahead of the national elections on September 24, a poll said. According to the surveys conducted on Sunday by two of Germany’s public TV channels, 55 per cent of the respondents found Merkel more convincing while 35 per cent […]
Nirmala Sitharaman is now a member of a powerful sisterhood of 16 female defence ministers, in a sign of rising women empowerment in an overwhelmingly male-dominated arena. Sitharaman, who got the portfolio on Sunday, heads the world’s third largest defence force of 1.4 million personnel. It is also the strongest of those headed by female […]
A gunfight between the security forces and militants started on Monday during a cordon and search operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district. The security forces receiving information about the presence of militants in Shankar Gund area on the outskirts of Sopore town were preparing to cordon off and search the place when the incident […]
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modis bilateral meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Xiamen, India has hinted that it wants to move on from the tense Doklam dispute, which had plunged bilateral ties to a new low. “We want to bury the ghost of the […]
It is “dangerous” to see a mere three cm of rainfall inundate the city, India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) Bengaluru chief said on Saturday, a day after the deluge here. “The rainfall received here yesterday was only a moderate one — measuring upto maximum 3 cm in the city. But the fact that it could leave […]
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday dismissed reports of alleged phone-tapping of a Union Minister by the agency in a section of the media as “completely false and malicious”. The agency said its work was “clearly defined and its mandate is to probe cases professionally”. “With reference to a story regarding phone-tapping of […]
Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal on Saturday ruled out policy measures in the immediate future to legalise introduction of cryptocurrency for security and commodities related transactions. He added that a committee was set up by the Finance Ministry on the issue to weigh its consequences. “The majority public view, however, on introduction […]
The Indian Film and Television Directors’ Association (IFTDA) on Saturday cancelled the membership of rapist Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and his “adopted daughter” Honeypreet Kaur, with the Cine and TV Artists Association (CINTAA) following suit. They have barred the two from making any movies in future. Actor Sushant Singh, general secretary of CINTAA, […]
A court near here on Saturday allowed Malayalam superstar Dileep to get a two-hour break from jail to take part in his father’s remembrance day prayers on Wednesday morning. The Angamaly Court which heard his petition on Saturday, despite strong opposition from the prosecution that this would set a bad precedent, allowed him to take […]
Short covering ahead of the August derivatives expiry, coupled with hopes of a rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), healthy auto sales data and manufacturing data for the month of August, contributed to the bull run of key Indian equity indices for the third consecutive week. Besides, investors’ sentiments remained upbeat over […]