Dubai: Many flights cancelled due to unusual heavy rain
AMN Many flights have been delayed or cancelled due to unusual heavy rain in Dubai and water-logging at Dubai airport , Incessant rain over the last 48 hours have left…
State Energy Efficiency Index 2019 released
AMN / NEW DELHI Union Government Saturday released the State Energy Efficiency Index 2019, which tracks the progress of Energy Efficiency initiatives in 36 States and Union Territories. Power Minister…
Protest Against Mamata for Meeting PM, Say it Will ‘Dilute Fight’ Against CAA
AMN / KOLKATA West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday faced protests by Left-leaning students after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Raj Bhavan and allegedly “diluting the fight…
Army Chief: Training, integration, quality of equipment will be high on priorities
AMN / NEW DELHI Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane has said that training, integration, personnel and quality of the equipment will be high on his priorities. Addressing the Annual…
8 Killed in blast at chemical factory in Maharashtra
WEB DESK At least eight persons were reportedly killed in a huge explosion at a chemical factory at Boisar in Maharashtra’s Palghar district Saturday evening, a police official said. Boisar…
CWC seeks withdrawal of CAA, stopping of NPR process
Calling NPR 2020 a ‘Disguised NRC’, Sonia Gandhi Asks Congress CMs to Take ‘Wise and Uniform Decision’ Staff Reporter / New Delhi The Congress Working Committee (CWC) which met here…
Mamata meets PM Modi, requests him to withdraw CAA, NRC, NPR
PM faces protests from students’ wing of the ruling TMC as well Left Front activists, both of which have been protesting against the CAA AGENCIES / KOLKATA Amid ongoing protest…
US imposes new sanctions on Iran’s metal exports
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced yesterday that the U.S. imposed new sanctions on Iran’s metal exports and eight senior Iranian officials. The new penalties…
Pak FM speaks to Iraq, Bahrain counterparts over evolving situation in Middle East
WEB DESK Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi yesterday spoke to his counterparts from Iraq and Bahrain as part of its diplomatic outreach in the context of the evolving situation…
Polls open in Taiwan for presidential and parliamentary election
In Taiwan, polls opened today for a presidential and parliamentary election where the island’s fraught relationship with China is taking centre stage. The vote will send ripples far beyond its…