News from India

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday urged the government to ensure stringent punishment for crimes against women and said the new Modi government’s main objective was to build a secure nation. Addressing the joint session of Parliament, Kovind said the penal provisions for crimes committed against women should be strictly enforced. He added […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan that India seeks normal and cooperative relations with his country, but for that an “environment of trust, free of terror, violence and hostility” needs to be created. Modi wrote this to Khan in response to his congratulatory message earlier this month on […]

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has released admit card for private candidates for compartment examination 2019 of Class 10 and 12. The board has uploaded the admit cards on its official website www.cbse.nic.in and asked students to download it online. With an aim to help students to get their admit cards in a […]

San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter has decided to eliminate the option of letting users add their precise location details like latitude and longitude as part of their tweets. “Most people don’t tag their precise location in tweets, so we’re removing this ability to simplify your tweeting experience,” Twitter Support posted on Wednesday. However, the company […]

Bhubaneswar: Like the Bihar health mandarins, the new Odisha health minister Naba  Kishore Das seems to be in denial mode that Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) is a reality in Odisha, notwithstanding the bitter reality of Odisha’s brush with the killer disease in 2016. In a statement to the media yesterday, the State Health Minister had […]

Kendrapara: The Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Crime Branch Wednesday arrested two brothers and a relative of dreaded gangster Syed Usman Ali alias Tito. The STF reportedly arrested Tito’s brothers – Sayed Asfaq Ali alias G Babu and Sayed Ifteqar Ali alias Chittu, and one of his relatives Munna after conducting a surprise raid […]

New Delhi: Bodies of six Air Force personnel and remains of seven others, who died in the AN-32 aircraft crash, have been recovered, official sources said Thursday. Over the past week, the Indian Air Force was making efforts to retrieve the bodies from the crash site but inclement weather was making it difficult to carry […]

Jamnagar: A Jamnagar sessions court here on Thursday sentenced sacked Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt to life imprisonment in a 1990 custodial death case. Pronouncing the verdict, Jamnagar District and Sessions Judge D.M. Vyas charged Bhatt and then police constable Pravinsinh Jhala with murder.

Toronto: Older smartphone users tend to rely more on their phones’ auto lock feature compared to younger users, said researchers, adding that they also prefer using PINs over fingerprints to unlock their phones. The study presented at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems found that older users are more likely to unlock […]

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday urged all MPs to consider the government’s ‘one nation, one election’ concept. “I urge all the parliamentarians to think over ‘one nation, one election’ concept proposed by the government for the development of the country,” the President said while addressing the joint sitting of both Houses of […]

United Nations: As a new round of negotiations between the US and the Taliban is to start in Qatar, India has cautioned against a hasty deal with the terror group that is dictated by a Washington timeline rather than the best interests of Afghanistan. Speaking at the Security Council on Wednesday, India’s Permanent Representative Syed […]

Mumbai: Actor Shahid Kapoor says he doesn’t want to waste his time by watching some of his films. He opened up about films that inspired him to become an actor and what he enjoys watching during a conversation on IMDb original series “The Insider’s Watchlist”, read a statement. “My love for Hindi cinema kicked in […]

Birmingham: Former Australian batter Mike Hussey feels India have enough talent in their updated 15-member squad for the ongoing World Cup and the loss of Shikhar Dhawan will not derail the campaign of the Men in Blue in the showpiece event. “I do think it’s a big loss but I don’t think it will derail […]

Lucknow: Mental illness in city dwellers which has emerged as a major problem can be treated to an extent through yoga, say experts. Though mental illness, as such, cannot be directly treated through yoga, stress, which one of the major causes, said mental health expert Prakriti Poddar in a telephonic interview. “Stress is one of […]

Bhubaneswar: When Cyclone Fani battered Puri and Khurda districts in Odisha, it not only damaged the infrastructure but also created an imbalance in the educational system in the State. The OPSC candidates from these two districts on Tuesday demanded postponement of the Odisha Civil Services Mains Exam, scheduled to begin from July 5, 2019. In […]