Rebel Congress leader Shankersinh Vaghela on Tuesday asserted that he had not voted for the official party nominee Ahmed Patel in the crucial Gujarat Rajya Sabha polls being held here. Five of his supporters too, stated they voted for the BJP candidate. “I have not voted for the Congress, because Ahmed Patel is not going […]
Polling for the crucial Rajya Sabha elections here in Gujarat began on Tuesday that will decide the fate of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary Ahmed Patel and that of BJP chief Amit Shah and Union Minister Smriti Irani. While Patel is seeking a fifth term with his back to the wall, the Bharatiya Janata […]
It was a cloudy Friday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 27 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season’s average. “It will be a generally cloudy sky with no chances of rains today,” an India Meteorological Department official told IANS. The maximum temperature was likely to hover around 35 degrees […]
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is suspected of offences including bribery, fraud and breach of trust, Israeli police said. In a document filed with a magistrate’s court, the police on Thursday confirmed for the first time that Netanyahu is a suspect in two corruption cases which are under investigation, Xinhua news agency reported. According to […]
US President Donald Trump told his Mexican counterpart Enrique Peña Nieto to remain quiet about the border wall, according to a transcript of the conversation revealed on Thursday by The Washington Post. The transcript of Trump’s conversation with Mexico’s leader was one of two phone calls revealed on Thursday, which provide a rare glimpse into […]
A small batch of 132 pilgrims left Jammu on Friday for the Kashmir Valley to perform the ongoing Amarnath Yatra, officials said. “The pilgrims left Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas at 2.55 a.m. in an escorted convoy of five vehicles,” officials said. S.D. Singh Jamwal, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Jammu zone, said the last batch […]
The FBI has detained a computer expert who found a way to stop an outbreak of the “WannaCry” ransomware computer virus in May that had affected computers of key public services and businesses across the world. The 23-year-old Briton Marcus Hutchins, who runs a security blog called MalwareTech, was arrested late Wednesday in Las Vegas […]
After the Chamber of Deputies voted to dismiss charges against President Michel Temer for corruption, the government is focusing on social security reform, Brazil’s Chief of Staff Eliseu Padilha has said. Padilha on Thursday said the measure is necessary to ensure the security of Brazil’s accounts. “Brazil’s accounts cannot get completely out of hand. We […]
Key Indian equity market indices opened in the red on Friday following mixed global cues. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) was trading 26.69 points or 0.08 per cent lower during the early session. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading 9.45 points or 0.09 per cent lower at 10,004.20 […]
Air France will expand its no-flyover zone around North Korea after concerns a missile test crossed a plane’s flight path, the media reported. On Thursday, the French flag carrier said the move was being taken as a “precautionary measure” after a North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) splashed down near the route being taken by […]