- Middle East
Israelis to be administered variant-tailored COVID-19 vaccine: Report
Jerusalem: Israel will start vaccinating its population with new variant-tailored second-generation coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer, which is better suited to fight against new COVID-19 strains, by the end of this month, according…
- India
Modi to release cheetahs brought from Namibia in MP’s National Park
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release cheetahs brought from Namibia in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park on Saturday as part of his efforts to revitalise and diversify the country’s wildlife…
- World
India emerges as Sri Lanka’s top lender in 2022: Verite Research think-tank
Colombo: India has emerged as the top lender to Sri Lanka in 2022, disbursing USD 377 million in loans to the island nation as it grappled with an unprecedented political crisis and…
- India
Spl status for all backward states if non-BJP alliance comes to power at Centre: Nitish
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who is trying to forge “opposition unity” after walking out of the NDA, on Thursday promised special category status, which he has been demanding for his…
- India
Vedanta-Foxconn plant going to Gujarat is `attack on Maharashtra’s prestige’: Shiv Sena
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena on Thursday said the mega semiconductor project of Vedanta-Foxconn going to Gujarat was an attack on Maharashtra’s “prestige”. This was just the beginning and one day the Eknath…
- India
Rajasthan: Dalit man beaten up for drinking water from pot for upper castes
Jaisalmer: A Dalit man was allegedly beaten up with iron rods and sticks by a group of men for drinking water from a pot meant for people from upper castes in Rajasthan’s…
- India
NHRC directs Assam govt to pay compensation to boy assaulted inside police station
Morigaon : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Assam government to pay Rs 25,000 to a boy who was assaulted inside a police station in Morigaon district six months…
- India
Women’s security cannot be expected from those facilitating release of rapists: Rahul
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday attacked the BJP over the alleged kidnapping and murder of two Dalit girls in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri, saying women’s security cannot be expected…
- Telangana
Telangana: BJP leader Karandlaje slams TRS, calls for double engine govt
Hyderabad: Alleging that only the family of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao “developed” in Telangana under TRS rule, senior BJP leader and Union minister Shobha Karandlaje on Wednesday said people should elect a…
- News
Jharkhand raises reservations for SC, ST, others to 77 pc
Ranchi: The Jharkhand government has given its nod to a proposal for granting 77 per cent reservation in state government jobs for the members of the SC, ST, backward classes, OBC and…
- World
Former Pakistan umpire Asad Rauf dies of cardiac arrest
New Delhi: Former Pakistan umpire Asad Rauf has died aged 66 after suffering a cardiac arrest in Lahore. Rauf had made his first appearance as an umpire in international cricket in 2000.…
- India
UP Dalit sisters death: 6 accused arrested
Lakhimpur Kheri: Six people were arrested on Thursday in connection with the rape and murder of two Dalit teenage sisters in Nighasan here, police said. The girls were found hanging from a…
- Photos
Inauguration of ‘kendriya GST parisar’
Navi Mumbai: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman hands off keys to occupants of Kendriya GST Parisar at the residential complex’s inauguration ceremony, in Navi Mumbai, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. Union MoS for…
- India
Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims face discrimination in accessing jobs: Oxfam India
New Delhi: People not belonging to the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Schedules Tribes (STs) earn Rs 5,000 per month more than those from the two communities, while non-Muslims earn Rs 7,000 per…
- India
Malik not innocent, he was dealing with Dawood Ibrahim’s sister: ED to court
Mumbai: Former Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik, arrested in a money laundering case, was dealing with fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s sister Hasina Parkar and there was no question of him being innocent,…
