- India
India urges Nepal to check entry of Chinese, Pak nationals through border
Kathmandu: India’s Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has requested Nepal to stop the entry of Pakistani and Chinese nationals into India through the Nepal-India border points. SSB Director General Sujoy Lal Thaosen, who…
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Karnataka asks education dept to submit report on madrasas’ activities: Sources
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government on Friday directed the education department to submit a report on the activities of madrasas in the state, stirring a controversy. The education department has taken up the…
- Pakistan
India, Pakistan should work together on climate change: Pak Foreign Minister Bilawal
Washington: It is time for India and Pakistan to work together on climate change, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said, as he highlighted the impact of global warming that has…
- Technology
OnePlus says successfully geared up for 5G tech launch with 5G-ready smartphone portfolio
Bengaluru: Global smartphone brand OnePlus on Friday said it is successfully geared up to bring in the evolutionary 5G technology ecosystem to OnePlus users in India. The brand confirmed that its recently-launched…
- India
Girl gang-raped, sold for Rs 50k in Bihar; 3 held
Patna: Three people, including a woman, have been arrested in connection with the gang-rape and selling of a minor girl in Madhubani district of Bihar. According to police, the girl was sexually…
- Technology
Android apps now have new voices for Google’s text-to-speech engine
San Francisco: Tech giant Google has announced it is upgrading its text-to-speech (TTS) by Google speech engine by providing clearer, more natural voices. The company said that all 421 voices in 67…
- India
Tamil Nadu Police commence sealing of PFI offices in state
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Police have commenced sealing the offices of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) in the state after Chief Secretary V. Irai Anbu issued a notification terming the…
- Bangalore
Karnataka HC allows rape accused Lingayat seer to sign cheques
Bengaluru: Karnataka High Court on Friday allowed the rape-accused Lingayat seer Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, currently under judicial custody, to sign cheques. A bench headed by Justice Nagaprasanna passed the order as thousands…
- Bangalore
Bengaluru civic polls: Karnataka HC asks govt to conduct polls by Dec 31
Bengaluru: Rejecting the plea of the BJP government to provide 16 weeks to rectify and finalise the list of reservation of wards in Bengaluru, the High Court on Friday asked the government…
- India
Auto-rickshaw driver, who invited Kejriwal for dinner, is ‘PM Modi’s fan’
Ahmedabad: Vikram Dantani, an auto-rickshaw driver in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad, who had recently invited Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to his house for dinner, on Friday said he is a big fan of…
- World
Victory shines over Sharifs as court overturns Maryam Nawaz’s conviction in corruption case
Islamabad: In a massive shift of tides in Pakistan’s political turmoil, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has overturned the June 2018 decision of the Accountability Court against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s…
- India
Gen Anil Chauhan takes charge as India’s Chief of Defence Staff
New Delhi: Lieutenant General Anil Chauhan on Friday assumed charge as the second Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of the country. The post was lying vacant for over nine months since the…
- India
ED: 3 TV channels indulged in financial ‘hera-pheri’, money laundering
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has claimed that three private television channels — ‘Fakht Marathi’, ‘Box Cinema’ and ‘Mahamovie’ — their owners and companies, had allegedly indulged in financial misappropriation and money…
- India
I have my own vision for Congress, will not pull out: Tharoor
New Delhi: After filing nomination for the Congress presidential poll on Friday, Shashi Tharoor said he has his own vision for the party which he will soon share with all the delegates,…
- India
Replay of Chandigarh video leak in Kanpur, one held
Kanpur: In a frightening replay of the Chandigarh incident, a sanitary worker has been caught red handed making video of girls in a private girls’ hostel in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur. The incident…
