- Pakistan
Pakistani PM calls for national unity after terror attack in Peshawar
Islamabad: In the wake of the recent suicide bombing in Pakistan’s Peshawar city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday called for national unity to fight the menace…
- India
Delhi HC dismisses 2006 Mumbai train blasts convict’s plea for govt reports
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday said that intelligence agencies’ reports and dossiers cannot be made public under the RTI Act, especially if doing so will jeopardise the sovereignty or…
- India
IIT Kanpur to launch haptic smartwatch for blind, visually impaired
New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur on Friday announced to launch “haptic smartwatch for the blind and visually impaired” in association with Ambrane India Private Limited for mass manufacturing…
- Pakistan
Calcutta HC upholds life sentence to Pakistani terrorist held in Kolkata
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday upheld the life sentence of a Pakistani terrorist arrested in Kolkata with explosives in 2009. A division bench of Justices Debangsu Basak and Shabbar Rashidi…
- India
Coal production rises 13% to 90 mn tonnes in Jan 2023
New Delhi: Domestic coal production rose 13 percent to 89.96 million tonnes during January 2023 against 79.65 million tonnes in the corresponding period of last year. According to official data, during January…
- Pakistan
‘IMF giving us tough time’, Pakistan rupee plunges after Shehbaz’s comments
Karachi: The Pakistani rupee on Friday plunged to a historic low against the US dollar after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is giving Pakistan “a tough…
- India
Kerala HC asks CBI to file report on probe in Palakkad twin sisters rape-murder case
Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Friday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to submit, in a sealed cover, a report on their ongoing probe into the 2017 rape and ‘murder’…
- India
Man arrested in Goa for possessing amphetamine
Panaji: Police in Goa on Friday arrested a man for allegedly possessing recreational drug amphetamine worth Rs 1,20,000. According to police, the man, identified as Vinod Kayalvarath, was arrested during a raid…
- Bangalore
Two Bengaluru cops suspended for extorting couple
Bengaluru: Two police personnel were suspended on Friday for allegedly extorting money from a couple here. Head Constable Rajesh and Constable Nagesh were patrolling staff attached to Sampigehalli police station in the…
- India
India Cements to refurbish its plants in Telangana and AP at Rs.1,600 crore
Chennai: Cement major India Cements Ltd is looking at refurbishing its old plants located in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana at an outlay of Rs 1,500 crore to Rs 1,600 crore to be…
- Middle East
France, Israel agree to deepen strategic partnership
Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron and visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to deepen the strategic partnership between the two countries and strengthen bilateral relationship in all areas, the Elysee said…
- Pakistan
Pakistan’s hybrid regime sinks towards authoritarianism
Islamabad: the state of democracy in Pakistan has deteriorated to a level where it sits just above countries described as authoritarian. This was claimed in the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index…
- World
Russia’s agricultural exports increase 12% in 2022
Moscow: Russia’s agricultural exports in 2022 increased by 12 percent yearly, a government statement said. “Despite all the difficulties that Russian companies faced last year, exports at current prices showed an increase…
- Pakistan
Shehbaz confesses terrorists roam around in Pakistan
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has confessed that terrorists roam around in Pakistan but there is no safe haven for them,. He also ruled out that any terrorists were settled on…
- Middle East
Israel, Sudan to sign deal to normalize ties later this year
Jerusalem: Following his return from a “historic” visit to Khartoum, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen announced here that his country and Sudan have agreed to normalize ties and sign a peace agreement…
