The Telangana government will train Tripura government officials to improve its ranking in the Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) index, official said here on Tuesday. “A group of officials from Telangana government’s Industries Department would soon arrive here to teach the officials of Tripura Industries and Commerce Department and other industry related department,” an official […]
Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari was accorded a ceremonial welcome on Tuesday at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here. President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi received Bhandari. She was then accorded a ceremonial guard of honour at forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan. “Special honours for a close neighbour,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Gopal Baglay tweeted while […]
Pakistan Army on Monday resorted to firing and mortar shelling at Indian positions along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district. “Pakistan Army initiated indiscriminate firing and shelling on our positions on the LoC in the Naushera sector,” Defence Ministry spokesman Manish Mehta told IANS. They are using small arms, automatics […]
China’s economy grew 6.9 per cent in the first quarter, a tenth more than in the last quarter of 2016, according to data released on Monday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). From January to March 2017, China’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the total value of goods and services produced, amounted to $2.62 trillion, […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed victory in the referendum on granting him sweeping new powers, saying it was won by a clear majority, BBC reported. He was speaking in Istanbul as the count neared completion. Turkey was on course to switch from a parliamentary to presidential system, with “Yes” campaign leading on 51.3 […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan narrowly won a referendum on Sunday to expand presidential powers. With 99.97 per cent of ballots counted, the “Yes” campaign had won 51.41 per cent and “No” 48.59 per cent, and the electoral board called victory for “Yes”, BBC reported. Final referendum results will be released within 11-12 days. The […]
With 54 per cent of the total votes counted on Monday Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) legislator P.K. Kunhalikutty increased his lead to over a lakh votes in the Malappuram by-poll in Kerala. From the time the counting of votes statrted at 8 a.m. the IUML strongman was far ahead of his nearest rival — […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urged all citizens to serve the nation with their hard work and said that India cannot be run by the government without the support of its people. “Our nation was neither built, nor can it be run by governments, kings and politicians, but only by the service and hard […]
Around 1,500 Indian Sikhs with over 500 from European countries and more than 2,000 Pakistani Hindus and Sikhs are participating in the Baisakhi celebrations that began in Punjab province, the media reported. Baisakhi is widely celebrated by Sikhs in the province, with festivities centred on Panja Sahib Complex in Hasan Abdal town, Attock district that […]
Two US Secret Service officers were fired over a March 10 security breach in which a man climbed over the White House fence and remained on the grounds undetected for over 15 minutes, security officials told CNN. The Uniformed Division officers, both with less than a year on the job, were assigned to guard posts […]