Sivasagar: Cars lie partially submerged in mud and silt washed along floodwater of the swollen Dikhow River GUWAHATI: The death toll from Assam’s deluge rose to 62, with over 7.05 lakh people still affected across 12 districts, as floodwaters began receding across the state on Saturday. The Centre has dispatched an inter-ministerial team to assess…
Union ministers Jitendra Singh and J P Nadda, along with CJP’s Saurav Das, addressed press conference NEW DELHI: BJP has fended off numerous opposition campaigns built around allegations, contentious laws or policies, and suspected wrongdoings of a senior Union minister or a chief minister since PM Modi took office in 2014 without making any appearance…
People celebrate Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation as education ministe NEW DELHI: The opposition may have lost a politically incendiary issue with the end of the youth protest, but it is set to move to another controversy that has rocked the country – the Ayodhya donation theft.When the Parliament session started, the alleged Ram Janmabhoomi embezzlement was…
Indian Army soldiers celebrate victory in the 1999 Kargil War that is commemorated every year as Kargil Vijay Diwas. NEW DELHI: Twenty-seven years after Indian soldiers recaptured the icy heights of Kargil, the conflict continues to shape India’s military doctrine, defence modernisation and national security strategy. Observed every year on July 26, Kargil Vijay Diwas…
Saudi authorities issued emergency warnings for the provinces of Jazan and Yanbu CAIRO: Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said Saturday that they fired missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia in response to Saudi airstrikes on the strategic Red Sea city of Hodeida, in an escalation over vital shipping routes in the Middle East while the United…
Emergency services at the scene after a small plane crashed lodged in the roof of a house, in Ganderkesee Two men were killed after a small private aircraft crashed into the roof of a house in northwestern Germany on Saturday, police said.The light aircraft went down in a residential neighbourhood in Ganderkesee, near the city…
Russia claims Ukraine killed 11 people (Representative image) Russian authorities said 11 people, including four children, were killed by Ukraine in an overnight attack on a holiday camp in a Russian-held part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, accusing Kyiv on Saturday of deliberately attacking civilians.Ukraine did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Ukraine launched…
Photo of victim from GoFundMe A 23-year-old Indian origin woman was strangled to death in Edmonton, Canada earlier this month. Canadian police have charged her 22-year-old Indian origin partner with second-degree murder.The victim, Damanpreet Kaur, hailed from Samrala in Ludhiana district. She was found unresponsive with suspicious injuries at a residence in the Silver Berry…
The announcement was made as President Lee Jae Myung visited San Francisco for talks with heads of major US tech firms South Korean memory chip giants Samsung Electronics and SK hynix will supply US tech companies, including Nvidia, in agreements worth $950 billion, a presidential adviser said on Saturday. The announcement was made as President…
The app allows anonymous communication without mandatory user registration, phone number verification or centralised logging of messages NEW DELHI: Digital rights advocacy group Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has termed govt’s order directing GitHub to remove the source code repositories of Bluetooth-based messaging app BitChat “unconstitutional and authoritarian”.In a statement Friday, IFF said the order, issued…
