JRL describes talks offer as futile exercise
Joint resistance leadership has appealed all kashmiri people and organisations not be part of the latest initiative of BJP government and added that such participation in the process would be insult to the sacrifices of martyrs and to the daily basis sufferings of common people at the hands of indian forces. After meeting at the […]
Pakistan to top T20 rankings if India beat NZ
ISLAMABAD: India will do Pakistan a huge favour if they defeat New Zealand in the upcoming three-match Twenty20 International series, as such a result will see their archrivals top the ICC T20 Team Rankings. New Zealand are the top-ranked side in the shortest format with 125 points, but Pakistan have closed in to within one […]
200 dead in N Korea after tunnel collapses
October 31, 2017 As many as 200 construction workers are feared dead after the collapse of a tunnel at a nuclear test site in North Korea, writes the Independent reports citing a Japanese media report. The tunnel was being built at the Punggye-ri test site when it collapsed, according to a report on Japan’s TV […]
China rejects report of planned tunnel to divert Brahmaputra waters
China denied a media report on Tuesday as “false and untrue” after it said Beijing was planning to build a 1,000-km long tunnel to divert water from the Brahmaputra river in Tibet close to Arunachal Pradesh to the parched Xinjiang region. South China Morning post, based in Hong-Kong, on Monday reported that engineers in China […]
Dhumal to be BJP’s CM candidate in Himachal
October 31, 2017 NEW DELHI: The BJP on Tuesday named Prem Kumar Dhumal as the party’s chief ministerial face for the upcoming assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh. Party chief Amit Shah made the announcement at a public meeting, thus ending speculation over the party’s choice for the top post. “The BJP is going to fight the Himachal Pradesh assembly […]
Palestinian prisoner gets ’10 minutes’ to see dying son
A Palestinian political prisoner was given “10 minutes” to visit his terminally ill teenage son, according to his family. The visit between Rajab Tahhan, who is serving a life sentence, and his son, Majd, who suffers from leukaemia, took place on Monday morning at the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem. The family said that the Israeli court handling […]
India’s fiscal deficit reaches 91.3 percent of full-year target in September
31 October 2017 NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India reported fiscal deficit of 4.99 trillion rupees ($77.09 billion) for April-September or 91.3 percent of the budgeted target for the current fiscal year that ends in March 2018. The deficit was 83.9 percent of the full-year target during the same period a year ago. Net tax receipts […]
Pakistan seeks new US deal after returning 9 choppers
Oct 31, 2017, Pakistan is trying to reacquire an unspecified number of helicopters from the US for anti-narcotics operations after returning nine Huey II helicopters it had acquired in 2002, the media reported. Pakistan returned on Monday the remaining five of the nine helicopters it had received from the US almost 15 years ago. The […]
PM flags off ‘Run for Unity’, slams Cong for ignoring Patel
October 31, 2017 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday flagged off the ‘Run for Unity’ paying rich tributes to country’s first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and slammed efforts made to undermine his contributions in nation building. “People tried to ensure the contribution of Sardar Patel is forgotten. However, the youth of India respects […]
India tops list of new TB cases in 2016: WHO
Oct 31, 2017, New Delhi: India topped the list of seven countries, accounting for 64 percent of the 10.4 million new tuberculosis (TB) cases worldwide in 2016, according to a new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday. India was followed by Indonesia, China, Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria and South Africa, according to a Global TB […]
