The 30-day-long holy month of Ramadan began here Tuesday as Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir started their longest daily fasting period in three decades. The devout Muslims keeping fast this year will have to abstain from eating and drinking for 16 hours as the 'Sehri' (pre-dawn eating period) ended at 3.37 a.m. on Tuesday and '...
New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) The Indian telecom regulator will soon ask service providers to give details of radio link timeout (RLT) or call masking technology used by them. “Before setting up any enquiry, we will seeks details of RLT from telecom operators around parameters applicable globally, that they are following here and param...
Despite the holy month of Ramadan, terrorists in Syria continue indiscriminate intense fire on Syrian troops, Kurdish militia and residential quarters of the city of Aleppo, using everything in their vast arsenal of artillery, reports said. “The number of victims among the civilians is only growing,†reported the Russian Centre for...
At least 25 Indian students in their first semester of computer sciences programme at Western Kentucky University have been asked to return to India or find placement in other schools, because they did not meet the admission standards of the varsity, The New York Times said on Tuesday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on a US visit. Some 60 India...
The AAP on Tuesday accused Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung of "spying for the PMO" and alleged the BJP wanted to destabilize the Delhi government. Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh said: "LG is acting like a spy for the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). The BJP wants to destabilize the Delhi government." His remarks came after a published report said Jung had complained to N...
The CBI on Tuesday questioned Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat in the wake of a "sting" video showing him offering bribes to buy legislative support in the state assembly. Rawat reached the Central Bureau of Investigation headquarters after 11 a.m. The questioning began a little later, a CBI official told IANS. Rawat was questioned in the same case for around...
Beijing, June 7 (IANS) Concerned over increasing health problems, China has decided to provide 'family doctors' to every household in the country by 2020. The State Council's Medical Reform Office said 200 cities will come under the service in 2016. In the following year, it plans to provide the facility to about 30 percent of China's population. ...
The Central government should ban Nigerians from entering India, former Goa Chief Minister Ravi Naik has demanded, adding that the state does not need Nigerian tourists. Referring to Nigerians with the pejorative "negroes", the senior Congress leader also told reporters that Nigerians have been causing "problems" in Goa as well other metros...
An elderly Hindu priest was brutally killed on Tuesday by unidentified assailants in Bangladesh, police said. ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday wished the Muslim community on the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, also called Ramzan....