A Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh police on Saturday in Gorakhpur arrested an accused connected to the mass death of children within a week in August at the BRD Medical College. Kafeel Khan, the third prime accused in the case, was trying to flee the country possibly to Nepal when he was […]
Russia has been given two days to close its consulate in San Francisco as well as diplomatic annexes in Washington and New York, the US State Department has said. The move comes in response to the Kremlin’s decision last July to order the US to reduce by 755 the number of diplomats and diplomatic personnel […]
Minister of State for Skill Development Rajeev Pratap Rudy on Thursday night resigned from the Union Council of Ministers, while six others are believed to have offered to resign from their posts, ahead of much-spculated reshuffle shortly. Union ministers Uma Bharati, Radha Mohan Singh, Giriraj Singh, Kalraj Mishra, Nirmala Sitharaman, Mahendra Nath Pandey, Faggan Singh […]
India is fully prepared to finance carbon-capture technology but the developed world’s approach in this area leaves much to be desired, New and Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal has said. “The government is ready to fully finance carbon-capture technology and is in favour of opening up the technology to all. However, this idea did not […]
Venezuelan authorities have assigned two prosecutors to probe alleged acts of treason by citizens who supported the US’ latest round of economic sanctions against the South American nation. “We’ve assigned two prosecutors who are going to investigate these actions,” Attorney General Tarek Saab said on Thursday. Speaking two days after the National Constituent Assembly (ANC) […]
Roger Federer outlasted Mikhail Youzhny 6-1, 6-7, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 here to advance to the third round of the 2017 US Open. The third-seeded Swiss great boosted his lifetime record against the Russian to 17-0 during the match on Thursday, Efe news reported. Federer, 36, has never before reached the third round of a tournament […]
Heavy rains continued to batter most parts of the hill state of Uttarakhand on Friday, weather officials said. Rains lashed the state capital Dehradun on Thursday evening, leaving the city inundated. On Wednesday, the weatherman had predicted heavy to very heavy shower for the next 48 hours. The regional Met office has issued an alert […]
Key Indian equity market indices opened flat on Friday after the Central Statistics Office (CSO) data showed that the GDP growth of the Indian economy slumped to 5.7 per cent during April-June. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) was trading 5.10 points or 0.02 per cent lower during the early session. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of […]
US President Donald Trump has said that “talking is not the answer” in dealing with North Korea’s military operations. “The US has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years,” he wrote on Twitter, BBC reported on Wednesday. But US Defence Secretary James Mattis, insisted on Wednesday that there was […]
The catastrophic hurricane Harvey has weakened to a tropical depression with its centre now located in southwest Louisiana, but continues to cause heavy rains, the US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) announced. In the public advisory released late Wednesday night, the NHC indicated that Harvey has maximum winds of 55 km/h and is located 15 km […]