The Bahujan Samaj Party’s problems were further compounded the Uttar Pradesh Vigilance Department filing a chargesheet against its state unit chief Ram Achal Rajbhar, in a Rs 4 crore disproportionate assets (DA) case, an official said on Monday. The final chargesheet report is with the Yogi Adityanath government, the official added. Once the state government […]
French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed that there was indeed a deeper significance to the prolonged handshake he shared with his US counterpart Donald Trump in Brussels. “My handshake with him, it’s not innocent,” Macron told the Journal du Dimanche in an interview published on Sunday. “It’s not the alpha and the omega of politics, but […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her experience at international summits featuring US President Donald Trump showed her Europe cannot “completely” rely on Washington and other longstanding allies, the media reported. “The times when we could completely rely on others are, to an extent, over,” Merkel said on Sunday at a campaign event in Munich. “I […]
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner was “more than willing to answer any and all questions” following reports of his meetings with Russian officials, according to a top US official. Tennessee Senator and Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair Bob Corker told USA Today on Sunday night that he felt no urgency in […]
Light rain and cold winds brought relief from the heat in the national capital on Monday morning. The minimum temperature settled at 24 degrees Celsius, four notches below the season’s average. The city received 7.8 mm rain in the last 24 hours, the Met office said. An official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said […]
Rahul Jarngal, an engineer belonging to Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, has scaled the Mount Everest. Jarngal belongs to the border village of Gurabeldaran in Hira Nagar and is an engineer with the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC). On May 27, he along with three other members of an ONGC team scaled the […]
North Korea has fired a short-range ballistic missile on Monday morning that landed in the ocean, the US military said. South Korea and Japan immediately protested the missile launch, the most recent test-firing by North Korea as it seeks to develop nuclear weapons that can reach US military bases, CNN reported. The missile was fired […]
Curfew and restrictions continued in Srinagar and other places in the Kashmir Valley on Monday as authorities said “these were necessary to maintain law and order”. “Curfew will continue in seven police station areas of Khanyar, Rainawari, Nowhatta, M.R. Gunj, Safa Kadal, Kralkhud and Maisuma”, Farooq Ahmad Lone, District Magistrate Srinagar said. Syed Abid Rashid, […]
The US military blamed the Islamic State (IS) group for the death of more than 100 civilians in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul in a March airstrike by coalition forces. The airstrike on March 17 against two IS snipers ignited a large amount of explosive material the group had placed in the structure, where 101 […]
US President Donald Trump called on NATO members to focus on defeating terrorism and urged them to pay a fair share towards the Alliance’s upkeep. Trump on Thursday was speaking during the unveiling of a monument ceded by the US to Brussels to commemorate the victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks at the […]