US country music singer Don Williams – who enjoyed great success with his easy-going singing style – has died aged 78. The Texan native passed away after a short illness, his publicist said. Williams began his solo career in 1971, amassing 17 number one country hits. His songs, such as Gypsy Woman and Tulsa Time, […]
Bangladesh is reeling under a flood of refugees. Some 2,70,000 Rohingya Muslims have sought shelter in Bangladesh since violence erupted in Burma (Myanmar) two weeks ago, the UN says. A spokeswoman said the jump – up from 1,64,000 on Thursday – was because new pockets of people had been found. She called the figure “so […]
The BJP led Union Government finally has a junior minister from the Kerala Catholic Community. A “thrill” and a “surprise” – that’s how KJ Alphons, the former bureaucrat from Kerala, has described his selection as one of the new members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet. The 64-year-old took oath as a junior minister in […]
Bombay: The Bombay High court is furious. Irked by the “lackadaisical response” of the BMC (Municipal Corporation) lawyers in “several important” cases, the Bombay High Court has directed the civic body to explain the logic it employs for leaving these cases to “not-so-capable” advocates while engaging services of “senior counsel for petty matters”. The court […]
Gorakhpur (UP): The spate of deaths continued in the state-run Baba Raghav Das Medical College hospital with 13 more children dying in the past 24 hours, taking the toll to 1,317 so far this year. As many as 13 children, 10 in NICU and three in general paediatric ward died in the past 24 hours, […]
NEW DELHI: The central bank will soon issue 200-rupee note the Finance Ministry has confirmed today. The move will help fill the vast demand for cash after the notes ban, which wiped out over 85 per cent of the cash in circulation. The Finance Ministry, in a notification, said that on the recommendations of the […]
New Delhi: The right to privacy of an individual is a natural, cherished, inseparable and inalienable right which is born with a human being and extinguishes with it, the Supreme Court said today. The landmark verdict of the Supreme Court declaring Right to Privacy as a fundamental right was today welcomed by jurists and senior […]
US President Donald Trump says he will close down the US government if necessary to build his wall along the Mexico border. The president accused the opposition Democrats of being “obstructionist” at a “Make America Great Again” rally in Phoenix, Arizona. During the 80-minute speech, he also took aim at the media, blaming them for […]
Floods that have hit 20 of Bihar’s 38 districts and killed 253 people so far, are threatening the state capital Patna , as the water in the Ganges is rising steadily. People have become worried, the price of food grains are on the rise. The river was 20 cm below the danger level of 48.6 […]
Last night, a grenade attack on a Kalimpong police station killed a civic police volunteer and injured two policemen, after a blast in the heart of Darjeeling town on Friday midnight pockmarked shop shutters and shattered windowpanes. The back-to-back blasts in Darjeeling and Kalimpong have left a confused hill population asking: “What does Bimal Gurung […]
MOSCOW — A Russian court has banned the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ translation of the Bible following a drawn-out legal battle, another blow to followers of the pacifist Christian sect who have been branded “extremists” and driven to practicing their faith underground, as in Soviet times, says a report on Radio Free Europe. This follows a Supreme […]
Bihar has not learnt lessons from previous floods and has once again been caught napping. Officials perhaps prefer to spend more on relief and rehabilitation than prevention and cure. Blaming Nepal for the Bihar floods is another ruse that Bihar politicians keep using, but the truth lies elsewhere. This year, says Dinesh Mishra, the ‘flood […]
