Sri Lanka v India: KL Rahul doubtful for first Test?
Injury-prone India opener KL Rahul is down with fever, two days before the start of the first Test against Sri Lanka on Wednesday. Rahul scored a fine half century in a tour match in Colombo, his first competitive game in close to three months due to an injury lay-off. He is now down with fever […]
Resistance leaders call for shutdown on Tuesday
Srinagar Joint Resistance Leaders Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik have given called for a complete strike, Kashmir Bandh tomorrow (25th July). In a statement the leaders said that a complete shutdown should be observed to protest and condemn the “revengeful arbitrary and illegal arrests” of Hurriyat leaders Altaf Ahmed Shah, […]
Turkish leader meets Qatari counterpart over Gulf dispute
24 July 2017 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Turkey’s president has arrived in Qatar on the final leg of a Gulf tour aimed at forging a resolution to the diplomatic standoff gripping the nation and four fellow Arab countries. Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived on Monday from Kuwait, which has been mediating the dispute. He […]
KU’s MERC starts film appreciation course in collaboration with FTII
Srinagar: In first of its kind initiative, Media Education Research Centre at University of Kashmir in collaboration with Film and Television Institute of India Pune on Monday kick-started a five-day course on “Film Appreciation” at the University. The inaugural session was presided over by Vice-Chancellor Prof Khurshid Iqbal Andrabi while visiting faculty of FTII Pune, students, […]
Speaker suspends 6 Cong MPs for disrupting LS during lynching debate
The Lok Sabha Speaker suspended six Congress parliamentarians on Monday for unruly behaviour during opposition protests in the House over growing cow vigilantism and alleged targeting of minorities and Dalits in the country. Parliament’s monsoon session proceedings after the weekend break were marred by disruptions as opposition lawmakers protested in the well of the Lower […]
Our Women cricketers will get a grand felicitation: BCCI
The BCCI is planning a grand felicitation for the Indian women’s cricket team, which won a billion hearts despite a heartbreaking loss in the World Cup final at Lord’s on Sunday. The team is scheduled to return home in batches from Wednesday onwards. The date and venue for the felicitation has not been finalized yet […]
At least 35 dead in Afghanistan suicide attack
The death toll in a suicide blast that hit the Afghan capital of Kabulhas risen to 35, an interior ministry spokesperson has said. The car bomb detonated in a Shia neighbourhood in the west of the city during Monday rush hour, ramming into the side of a bus carrying government employees on their way to work, […]
New Yorkers rally in support of Palestinians
Mon Jul 24, 2017 Hundreds of people have marched in New York City to express solidarity with the people of Palestine, amid escalated violence over the Tel Aviv regime’s siege of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam’s third holiest site. Starting from the city’s iconic Times Square on Sunday, the demonstrators rallied towards the United Nations […]
HDFC Bank stock gains 2% post Q1 earnings
PTI July 24, 2017 New Delhi, Jul 24 (PTI) Shares of HDFC Bank today ended with nearly 2 per cent gain, adding Rs 8,031 crore to its market valuation, after the company reported 20.22 per cent increase in net profit for the quarter ended June 30. The stock gained 1.83 per cent to settle at Rs […]
Don’t know 100% if missing Indians are alive: Iraq FM
July 24, 2017 Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Foreign Minister of Iraq said today that they were not sure 100 per cent they were alive or not. “We don’t know. We are going to do our best but we have no substantial evidence that they were killed or whether they are still alive. Can’t confirm anything in that […]
