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 […]
Karvan-e-Aman bus service between Poonch and Rawalakot suspended for 3rd straight week
Cross-LoC bus service between India and Pakistan remained suspended for third consecutive week at the Chakan da Bagh crossing point in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. The bus service, a major Confidence Building Measure (CBM) between India and Pakistan after 1999 Kargil War, continued despite summer uprising of 2016 and tension on […]
NIA arrested seven kashmiri Hurriyat leaders
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday arrested seven Kashmiri separatist leaders on charges of receiving funds from abroad to sponsor stone-pelting protests in the Kashmir Valley. The activists who were arrested include National Front chairperson Nayeem Ahmad Khan, JKLF activist Bitta Karate, Hurriyat (m) chairperson Shahid-ul- Islam, Hurriyat (g) activist and son in law […]
Beeruwah shuts for fourth straight day
Beeruwah and it’s adjacent areas observed shutdown for fourth consecutive day on monday against the killing of civilian Tanveer Ahmad Wani by army without any provocation. As posters appeared in many villages of Budgam district asking people to join the fourth day mourning of Tanveer the authorities have sealed all the entry points to Beeruwah […]
Army claims infiltrator killed in Machil sector
Army spokesman said that they foiled infiltration bid in Machil sector on Sunday and killed one infiltrator. Army said that combing operation of the area was going on as they fear more militants might have entered into this side of border.
