Venezuela’s newly elected National Constituent Assembly (ANC), a legislative body created to rewrite the nation’s constitution, will meet for the first time on Friday, President Nicolas Maduro announced. Maduro made the announcement on Wednesday night in a televised speech, reports CNN. “This constituent assembly is the hope of an entire country,” he said. The President […]
A suicide attack on a mosque in the Afghan city of Herat has left at least 29 people dead and 63 others wounded, said an official. Jailani Farha, a spokesman for the Herat provincial governor said an attacker on Tuesday shot at the worshippers before entering the mosque and detonating explosives, Efe news reported. Hospitals […]
Jammu and Kashmir police approached the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi and asked them to claim the body of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) divisional commander Abu Dujana, killed by the security forces on Tuesday. Munir Khan, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir told reporters on Tuesday that Pakistan High Commission has been approached to claim the body […]
The Delhi High Court has formed a six-member committee to make recommendations to the court on “how court proceedings ought to be covered in the media in Delhi”. Setting up a committee, Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal gave three months time to it to come up with its recommending guidelines for media personnel and organisations […]
The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) on Wednesday opened on a positive note during the morning session of the trade. The Sensex of the BSE after opening at 32,641.58 points, touched a high of 32,666.83 points and a low of 32,637.81 points. On Tuesday the Sensex closed at 32,575.17 points. The Sensex is trading at 32,657.41 […]
At least 14 bogies of a goods train derailed in Bihar’s Kaimur district on Wednesday, disrupting rail traffic on the busy Mughalsarai-Howrah route, officials said. No injuries were reported. The accident occurred around 4 a.m. near Karnash railway halt. Several metres of the track was damaged, an East Central Railway (ECR) official said. Rajesh Kumar, […]
A youth injured in clashes with the security forces in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, succumbed in a hospital on Wednesday, police said. Akeel Ahmad Bhat injured in Tuesday’s clashes succumbed in Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) in Soura on Wednesday. Bhat belonging to Haal village had sustained a bullet injury when protesters clashed with […]
Income Tax (IT) sleuths on Wednesday began conducting raids at the official residence of Karnataka Power Minister D.K. Shivakumar and at a private resort near here where 44 Congress lawmakers from Gujarat are staying, said an official. “Yes, raids are underway at the Minister’s house and the resort. Our teams have gone to search the […]
A fresh batch of 590 pilgrims left Jammu on Monday for the ongoing Amarnath Yatra. “Another batch of 590 pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas at 5.45 a.m., in an escorted convoy of 16 vehicles for the Kashmir Valley,” officials said here. So far this year, 2.54 lakh devotees have performed the pilgrimage inside […]
Deadly clashes took place across Venezuela disrupting an election for a controversial constitutional assembly called by President Nicolas Maduro which according to the opposition would turn the country into a dictatorship, the media reported. A key opposition leader Henrique Capriles has confirmed that at least 14 people were killed in the nationwide clashes that began […]