Imphal, Aug 9: Manipuri political activist Irom Sharmila will break her 16-year long hunger strike against the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act on Tuesday. Sharmila has been campaigning against AFSPA — which provides special powers to handle insurgents in the North East and Jammu and Kashmir also. The 42-year-old activist, also known as Manipur’s ‘Iron […]

Dhaka, Aug 8: Bangladesh authorities have arrested nine foreigners in Dhaka for possessing counterfeit currency notes, police said on Monday. The elite anti-crime and anti-terrorism unit of the Bangladesh police, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) said the arrests were made from a house at the capital’s Bashundhara residential area during a raid on Sunday night, bdnews24 […]

Hyderabad, Aug 8: A former Maoist turned Gangster was killed on Monday during an exchange of fire with police in Telangana’s Shadnagar town, officials said. Nayeem, who was accused of killing a police officer and many former Maoist leaders, was in a four-wheeler which was intercepted by a police team. While the driver managed to […]

Big B Amitabh Bachchan on Monday took to Twitter to share the logo of the film Pink, where he will be seen essaying the character of a lawyer. Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has revealed the logo of his much-awaited thriller “Pink”. Big B on Monday took to Twitter to share the logo of the film, where […]

New Delhi, Aug 8: Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who underwent surgery to fix a dislocated shoulder after she collapsed due to exhaustion during a rally in Varanasi, is recovering well and is likely to be discharged later this week, hospital authorities said on Monday. “Sonia Gandhi who has been admitted under the care of Arup […]

New Delhi, Aug 8: Union Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Congress member Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury clashed in the Lok Sabha on Monday as he accused the minister of a “flip-flop” policy on the condition of tea gardens in north Bengal. These, he said, had become “enclaves” of death and destitution. “You are well aware that […]

London, Aug 6: In one of his first policy shifts since coming to office, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has lifted a ban on gay pride rainbow flags being flown at embassies and high commissions across the world. Former Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond last year came under fire when he ordered British embassies to abide […]

Jeddah, Aug 5: All Indian workers rendered jobless in Saudi Arabia due to the closure of a leading construction company will be able to receive their pending arrears, Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh assured the distressed workers on Friday. The Minister, who visited a workers’ camp in Jeddah on Friday evening, said […]

It is sad to see a promising politician stumble and be in danger of falling flat on his face. Till the Janata Dal United’s setback in Bihar in the last parliamentary polls, its foremost leader, Nitish Kumar, was riding high. He had won two successive assembly elections in 2005 and 2010 and was seen as […]

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 6: For want of a systematic study of the crisis facing the Indian diaspora in the Middle East, the government has little information, even on basic things like how many Indians have returned home, an expert has said. “Today everyone asks me how many have returned following the various issues in the Middle […]