Washington China has quietly resumed its activities in the Doklam area and neither Bhutan nor India has sought to dissuade it, a top US official has said while comparing Beijing’s actions in the Himalayan region with its manoeuvres in the disputed South China Sea. China claims sovereignty over all of South China Sea. Vietnam, Malaysia, […]
Kolkata, July 26 The West Bengal Assembly passed a resolution on Thursday to rename the state as ‘Bangla’ in three languages — Bengali, English and Hindi. The move is aimed at climbing the alphabetical sequence of state names in which West Bengal appears last in the list now. The state will have to wait for […]
Mumbai The Maratha Kranti Morcha, which is spearheading the agitation for reservation in jobs and education, has called for the shutdown in Mumbai and some neighbouring districts today. According to our sources, MKS( Maratha body) also wishes to appeal to other protesters in Pune, Navi Mumbai, Thane and Raigad to call off the strike. The […]
Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been the highest individual tax-payer in Jharkhand for the financial year of 2017-18, said an income tax official on Monday. Dhoni paid Rs 12.17 crore for the last fiscal year. “Dhoni had paid Rs 10.93 crore as income tax in 2016-17 but he was not the highest taxpayer in that fiscal,” […]
New Delhi Taking its passenger services up a notch, Indian Railways is now providing passengers with the latest status of running trains on WhatsApp. The Railways has partnered with Indian online travel company MakeMyTrip to let travellers get all the information regarding train queries such as timings and stations just by sending a request via […]
New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi today arrived in Rwanda on the first leg of his three-nation Africa tour as part of India’s outreach to the resource-rich continent, becoming the first Indian premier to visit the East African country. The Prime Minister’s aircraft landed at the Kigali International Airport where he was received by President […]
New Delhi 23 Jul 2018: Burari deaths: Tommy the dog, “only remaining family member,” dies Tommy, whom relatives of the Burari mass suicide family called “our only remaining family member,” died yesterday after a heart attack. When officials found the dog on the terrace of the Bhatias after they had killed themselves, he had high […]
There is no proposal to control social media, the government said on Monday in Rajya Sabha when asked if it was planning to do so. In a written reply, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore said, “There is no proposal in the ministry to control social media.“However, the ministry proposes to set […]
New Delhi Responding to Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s claim that the French President denied any secrecy clause in the Rafale jet deal, the French government said a 2008 pact between the two countries prohibited giving out details of classified information. The controversial Rafale fighter jet deal triggered an uproar in Parliament with Rahul attacking the […]
