Government on right track in J&K: Amit Shah

Government on right track in J&K: Amit Shah

BJP President Amit Shah on Saturday said the Centre was handling the Jammu and Kashmir situation seriously and was on the right track since its actions had shown “very good results”. He also said that the Ram temple at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh should be built either through consensus among the parties involved or through […]

No change in Chinese investment proposals: Home Ministry

No change in Chinese investment proposals: Home Ministry

 Despite the ongoing Doklam crisis, the most serious military face-off between Indian and China in three decades, the Indian government has no plans to single out the investment proposals of Chinese firms, a Home Ministry official said on Thursday. “The clearance of al applications regarding investment proposals received is done on the basis of well-established […]

Assam floods: Ten more die, death toll reach 49

Assam floods: Ten more die, death toll reach 49

 Ten more people died due to flood-related incidents across Assam in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 49, officials said on Thursday. The second wave of floods in Assam since July-end have affected over 30 lakh persons in 24 districts. Assam State Disaster Management Authority statistics said 31,54,882 persons in 2,584 villages […]

UN hopes for substantive Syrian peace talks

UN hopes for substantive Syrian peace talks

The UN’s special envoy to Syria said here he hoped substantive Syrian peace talks involving representatives of President Bashar al-Assad’s government and a unified opposition would take place between the months of October and November. Staffan de Mistura on Thursday said in a press conference here that there may eventually be an opportunity in October, […]

13 killed, 100 injured in Spain attack, IS claims responsibility

13 killed, 100 injured in Spain attack, IS claims responsibility

 The Islamic State terrorist group claimed responsibility for an attack in which a van ran over pedestrians here in Las Ramblas boulevard. At least 13 persons were killed and more than 100 injured. Confirming the death toll, Head of Catalonia’s Regional Interior Department Joaquim Forn said in a tweet on Thursday: “My strongest condemnation of […]

Spanish police stop second attack, kill five terrorists

Spanish police stop second attack, kill five terrorists

 Spanish police said they have stopped a second attempted terror attack on Friday after an earlier one in Barcelona. They killed five persons in Cambrils town to foil the attack. Mossos d’Esquadra, the Catalan police force, killed four out of the five attackers on the spot, a BBC report said. This was after they ploughed […]

Key Indian equity indices trade lower in early session

Key Indian equity indices trade lower in early session

The key Indian equity market indices opened in red on Friday following global cues. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) was trading 209.12 points or 0.66 per cent lower during the early session. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading 62.60 points or 0.63 per cent lower at 9,841.55 points. […]

Blue Whale challenge: Goa Police issues advisory for parents

Blue Whale challenge: Goa Police issues advisory for parents

The suicides of two youngsters in Kerala and Maharashtra while playing the Blue Whale challenge, has forced the Goa Police to issue a formal advisory to parents on safeguarding their wards from playing the online game. The advisory released by the Crime Branch late on Thursday, asked parents to install parental control software in computers […]

Wipro to manage Bangladesh telecom firm’s IT services

Wipro to manage Bangladesh telecom firm’s IT services

Software major Wipro on Wednesday announced that it had won a five-year deal to manage the IT infrastructure and services of Bangladesh’s leading telecom operator Grameenphone Ltd. “We will manage the IT landscape for the operator by leveraging our Artificial Intelligence platform Holmes, own application development and management, infrastructure support and maintenance and back offices […]