Jammu/Srinagar, Feb 19 (IANS) A clear night sky led minimum temperatures throughout the Kashmir Valley to remain below the freezing point on Monday even as temperatures in the Jammu region showed further improvement. The Met…
New Delhi/Kanpur, Feb 19 (IANS) The CBI on Monday raided several locations in Kanpur in connection with a Rs 800 crore loan default by the Rotomac Pen company’s chief Vikram Kothari, an official said. Kothari…
Mumbai, Feb 19 (IANS) The CBI on Monday sealed the Brady House Branch of the Punjab National Bank as multiple probe agencies continued with their probe into the Rs 11,515 crore fraud, according to officials….
New York, Feb 19 (IANS) Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates has said that he should paymore in taxes and that the government should require other super-wealthy people like him to contribute “significantly higher” amounts….
Mumbai, Feb 19 (IANS) Key Indian equity indices on Monday opened on a lower note as investors booked profits in metals, capital goods, oil and gas, and banking stocks. At one point, the BSE Sensex…
London, Feb 19 (IANS) Oxfam, the British charity rocked by corruption and sex abuse allegations, has revealed that three men at the centre of the claims physically threatened witnesses during a 2011 investigation. The charity…
Washington, Feb 19 (IANS) US President Donald Trump’s former campaign adviser Rick Gates to fraud-related charges within days and has also agreed to testify against Paul Manafort, the lawyer-lobbyist who once managed the campaign, the…
Srinagar, Feb 19 (IANS) A mentally challenged person was shot dead when he entered the security area of an Air Force station in Jammu and Kashmir’s Badgam district, police said on Monday. “The incident took…
London, Feb 19 (IANS) Walking off with five awards including Best Film, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing” topped at the 71st British Academy Film Awards organised by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA),…
Riyadh, Feb 19 (IANS) Saudi Arabia will grant visas free of charge to foreign scientists and experts, in a move that especially aims at improving its health sector, media reports said on Sunday. Secretary general…
Tel Aviv, Feb 19 (IANS) Israeli security agency Shin Bet on Sunday said it thwarted a plot by Palestinian militants to carry out a bombing attack against Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman. Six members of…
Kuala Lumpur, Feb 19 (IANS) At least 80 people were trapped inside cable cars for nearly four hours in Malaysia’s resort island of Langkawi after the system malfunctioned, officials said on Sunday. The Langkawi Development…
Washington, Feb 19 (IANS) Young survivors of Florida school shooting, which left 17 people dead last week, announced on Sunday a national march to Washington to demand political action on gun control. Students from the…
Washington, Feb 19 (IANS) US President Donald Trump on Sunday criticised Congress, the FBI and the Department of Justice for not investigating the Barack Obama government’s 2016 payment of hundreds of millions of dollars to…
Shillong, Feb 19 (IANS) Four people, including Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate Jonathone Nengminza Sangma, were killed while three others injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in poll-bound Meghalaya’s East Garo Hills district…
Agartala, Feb 18 (IANS) Over 78 per cent of Tripura’s 2,536,589 voters had cast their votes on Sunday in a peaceful manner to elect a new Assembly, said state chief electoral officer Sriram Taranikanti. However,…
Amaravati, Feb 18 (IANS) Bodies of five red sanders woodcutters were found in a lake in Andhra Pradesh’s Kadapa district on Sunday, police said. Police were investigating the cause of their death. It is suspected…
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) The CBI on Sunday questioned 11 Punjab National Bank (PNB) officials as well as Vipul Ambani, the Chief Financing Officer of diamond merchant Nirav Modi’s Firestar Internationl company, in connection…
Jammu, Feb 18 (IANS) A militant was killed on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Sunday as the army foiled a major infiltration bid, defence sources said. Defence Ministry…
Mumbai, Feb 18 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that with Artificial Intelligence (AI), bots and robots, productivity will increase, but warned of rising apprehensions of ‘human redundancy’ as the mind and machines…