New Delhi Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday advised Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s challenge to speak in Karnataka without reading from any paper. Taking to Twitter, Omar said: “I hope @RahulGandhi takes up the Hon PM’s challenge & speaks w/out using notes for 15 […]
NEW DELHI: The Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) will release the PSEB Class 10 secondary examination results 2018 in the first week of May 2018. The exact time of the announcement of Class 10 result is not mentioned on the official website of the PSEB board. However, as per report from sources, the result may […]
Australia’s oldest scientist, who caused a stir when his university tried to vacate his office aged 102, will fly to Switzerland in early May to end his life, reigniting a national euthanasia debate. David Goodall, who is now 104, does not have a terminal illness but his quality of life has deteriorated and he has secured […]
Wuhan Japan’s Kento Momota shocked Olympic gold-medalist Chen Long to be crowned badminton’s Asian champion in a stunning upset on Sunday. The world number 17 had never previously won a game against Chen, but he floored the strong Chinese favourite 21-17, 21-13 at the Badminton Asia Championships in Wuhan. Momota, a compact left-hander, had Chen firmly on the back foot as […]
NEW DELHI: The government is working on a proposal to incentivise digital transactions by providing cashbacks to businesses and price benefits to consumers, a source said. As per the proposal being worked out by the Revenue Department, consumers paying through the digital mode would be offered a discount over the maximum retail price (MRP). The […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, addressing the nation Monday night, April 30, revealed that proofs of Iran’s deceit were provided by Israeli intelligence which, in an amazing feat, got hold of Iran’s secret Atomic Archive. Revealing their content for the first time in public, Netanyahu said the Archive contained 100,000 incriminating Iranian documents, charts, presentations, photos and […]
New Delhi With the Karnataka Assembly election 2018 fast approaching, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a campaign blitzkrieg in the poll-bound southern state, to add heft to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) efforts to unseat the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government. In the first of his three rallies scheduled for Tuesday, the prime minister addressed the public in the Chamarajanagara […]
New Delhi A fortnight before Karnataka goes to polls, PSU oil firms have stopped revising petrol and diesel prices This is despite the benchmark international rate for petrol going up from USD 78.84 per barrel, which was used for raising the price to Rs 74.63 a litre on April 24, to USD 80.56 now, according […]
New Delhi The International Cricket Council on Thursday confirmed the full schedule of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, which will be staged in England and Wales from May 30 to July 14. England will open the tournament at The Oval on May 30 when they will take on South Africa, while Australia will launch their title defence on […]
Conservation of heritage monuments is a way too serious matter to be handed over to a corporate company or to a generalist bureaucrat. Recently, Government’s decision to hand over Red Fort maintenance to Bharat Dalmia Group and providing of basic facilities like drinking water, restaurant, tactile paths, clean toilets etc in exchange of Rs. 25 […]