- Middle East
Iran tightens entry rules amid increasing COVID-19 cases
Tehran: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has said that passengers can only gain entry to Iran upon submission of negative COVID-19 test results and full compliance with Iranian health protocols, citing the recent…
- World
China employed ‘Debt Trap Diplomacy’ to gain strategic edge over SL: Think tank
New Delhi: China employed its devious ‘Debt Trap Diplomacy’ to gain a strategic edge over Sri Lanka, an independent foreign policy think tank said on Saturday after Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe…
- India
Tejashwi accuses Centre of snatching 1.3cr jobs per month
Patna: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday accused the Narendra Modi government of snatching 1.3 crore jobs per month. “During the 2020 Bihar Assembly election, the NDA had promised…
- India
India needs clearer personal data protection law to tame Twitter, others
New Delhi: The latest Centre-Twitter legal battle over repeated content blocking orders by the IT Ministry has brought an old debate to the fore — is the country finally ready to penalise…
- Crime and Accident
Man tries to kill woman for denying space on footpath to sleep
New Delhi: A 42-year-old man has been arrested here for trying to kill a woman after she refused to leave space for him to sleep on a footpath, the police said on…
- India
Liquor policy: Uma Bharti slams Shivraj, seeks Nadda’s intervention
Bhopal: Veteran BJP leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti on Saturday wrote a letter to the party president J.P. Nadda, seeking his intervention on the liquor policy in the…
- India
CBI searches Karti Chidambaram’s Chennai house in Chinese visa case
New Delhi: In a latest development in the Chinese visa case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday conducted searches at the residence of Congress MP Karti Chidambaram in Chennai and…
- India
RSS sets target to take shakhas up to one lakh by 2024
Jaipur: Centenary celebration plan along with a target to increase the number of RSS shakhas to one lakh by 2024, were discussed in the 3-day Akhil Bharatiya Prant Pracharak meeting of RSS…
- India
India signs MoU for wheat donation to Afghanistan
New Delhi: India on Saturday signed an MoU with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) for in kind humanitarian food assistance of 10,000 metric tonnes (MT) of wheat for Afghanistan, which…
- India
Complete SYL canal as surplus water flows to Pakistan: Haryana CM
Jaipur: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday raised contentious issues of the state, including the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal as surplus and un-channelled water is flowing to Pakistan, appointment of…
- India
Maharashtra: Eknath Shinde to expand cabinet in a couple of days
New Delhi: Asserting that there is no political agenda vis-a-vis the first visit to the national capital with Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis after forming the government in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Eknath…
- India
Delhi: Denied food after b’day party, drunk neighbour stabs woman, 2 daughters
New Delhi: A drunk neighbour stabbed a woman and her two daughters in the national capital’s Dwarka area as he was denied food by them after a birthday party, it was learnt…
- World
Pakistan: 14 killed in rain-related incidents in Karachi
Karachi: At least 14 people have been killed over the last three days in separate rain-related incidents in Karachi, local media reported on Saturday. According to the reports, four people were electrocuted…
- India
Congress accuses BJP of ‘bloodying’ country in garb of nationalism
Mumbai: In a scathing attack, the Congress has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of ‘bloodying’ the country’s atmosphere in the guise of ‘hypocritical nationalism’, and labelled it as a ‘Bharat Jalao Party’…
- India
President greets citizens on Eid-ul-Adha
New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday greeted fellow citizens on Eid-ul-Adha, which he said is a “symbol of sacrifice and service to humanity.” Extending his greetings to all the fellow…
