Nayna Bandyopadhyay, wife of arrested Trinamool Congress MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay, on Thursday said political vendetta is the reason for the arrest of her husband. “It is very much clear that the CBI is being used by the BJP. From back-to-back arrest of two Trinamool leaders, it is evident that political vendetta is the reason behind […]
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday said the world needs to tell India “enough is enough” vis-a-vis its policy towards Jammu and Kashmir. Sharif was addressing an International Parliamentary Seminar on Kashmir here. “Seventy years of brutal repression and Kashmiri struggle in the face of that oppression have shown cries of freedom cannot be stifled […]
Chennai Smashers bounced back from their opening match defeat with a thumping 5-0 victory over Bengaluru Blasters in the Vodafone Premier Badminton League (PBL) campaign here on Tuesday. Parupalli Kashyap, who is coming after an injury lay-off, displayed his top game against Bengaluru’s Sourabh Verma to emerge winner 11-8, 11-5 to give Chennai the 1-0 […]
Democratic leader in the Senate Chuck Schumer has slammed President-elect Donald Trump for his twitter habit, claiming the US cannot afford “Twitter presidency” on the first day of the 115th session of the Congress. “‘Making America Great Again’ requires more than 140 characters per issue,” Xinhua news agency quoted Schumer as saying in his first […]
US President-elect Donald Trump has said that he will hold a press conference here on January 11, the first since winning the November 8 election. Trump made the announcement on Tuesday, tweeting that he will be having a “general news conference”. He did not give any further details. The Republican on November 30 said he […]
South Korea will strengthen efforts and policies in 2017 aimed at pushing North Korea to abandon its nuclear and missile programs, an official statement said on Wednesday. The measures would include implementing more unilateral sanctions and increasing international pressure, Efe news reported. Ministries on Wednesday presented South Korea’s acting President and Prime Minister, Hwang Kyo-ahn, […]
With the world’s biggest annual electronics event — Consumer Electronics Show (CES-2017) — commencing here on Tuesday, people expect to see a large range of Artificial Intelligence (AI) devices, robots and self-driving cars open a new window to the future of our increasingly technology-driven world. Technology giants that forayed into AI and self-driving cars last […]
At least 67 trains were running late and six cancelled due to dense fog in parts of north India on Wednesday morning, a railway official said. Out of the six cancelled trains, four of them were to depart on Wednesday while two were to depart on Thursday. Apart from that, as many as 15 trains […]
Nightlong rain and snowfall on Wednesday finally ended an over-six month long dry spell in Jammu and Kashmir, the weather office said. Moderate to light snowfall occurred in the higher reaches of the state while rain fell in the plains in the last 12 hours, it said. “Weather will remain wet with widespread rain and […]
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s camp on Tuesday told the poll panel to allocate it the election symbol ‘cycle’, a day after party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav made the same claim. Akhilesh confidant Ram Gopal Yadav met Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi to stake the claim. Ram Gopal Yadav later said: “We told the […]