Patidar leader Hardik Patel on Wednesday extended his support to the Congress in Assembly elections after it promised to give job quotas to the Patel community under the OBC category in Gujarat. Hardik Patel made the much awaited announcement on behalf of the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) at a crowded press conference here and said PAA...
A US Navy aircraft with 11 people on board crashed into the sea off the coast of Japan on Wednesday while on its way to the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, military officials said. The Japan-based US 7th Fleet said in a statement that a search and rescue operation had been launched from the carrier. It said the ship was operating in the Phili...
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday said he will be appointing a four-member committee on the recommendation of the Justice P.S. Antony Judicial Commission that has suggested cancellation of Malayalam news channel Mangalam TV's license. While giving a clean chit to former Kerala Transport Minister A.K. Saseendran, the Antony C...
The Philippines government on Wednesday announced the end of the stalled peace talks with the New People's Army, a Communist rebel outfit considered a terrorist group by the US and the European Union. The Manila agency in charge of the peace talks attributed its decision to the Communists' lack of willingness to negotiate and their recent a...
Australian Justice Minister Michael Keenan on Wednesday announced the establishment of a new South East Asian group to counter the funding of terrorism in the region. Keenan, Australia's Minister for Justice and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Counter Terrorism, announced the new South East Asia Counter Terrorism Financing Work...
Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy will submit a report to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on the killing of a journalist by a Tripura State Rifle (TSR) trooper on Tuesday. "I am going to Delhi today (Wednesday) and would meet Home Minister Rajnath Singh to give a report on the killing of the journalist Sudip Datta Bhowmik by a T...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the plea for the recall of its order banning the use of pet coke and furnace oil by industries in the National Capital Region (NCR). The court also rejected a plea by the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) seeking extension of time to switch over to an alternate fuel. Rejecting the plea by som...
Polling began on Wednesday to elect chairmen of local bodies in 24 districts of Uttar Pradesh, and the mayor of Agra along with 100 corporators, officials said. In the three-phase election, 24 districts of Uttar Pradesh are going to polls on Wednesday, while 25 districts would go to the polls on November 26, and 26 districts on November 29. Twenty-...
The UN Command on Wednesday published several videos showing the escape of a North Korean defector who was shot at by his fellow soldiers while crossing the border to the South on November 13. The footage captured by security cameras from the southern side of the border shows the moment the defector arrived in an SUV and ran across the bord...
Night temperatures throughout the valley dropped below freezing point on Wednesday as Srinagar witnessed its coldest night of the season at minus two degrees Celsius. Partially cloudy sky has been forecast in Jammu and Kashmir till Thursday. "Leh town was the coldest in the state today as the minimum temperature was minus 11.4 degrees Celsius. Kar...
