The State Assembly elections slated for April/May are likely to affect the schedule of the Common Entrance Test by a week. The CET is a gateway for admissions to engineering, pharmacy, agriculture and ayurveda, among others. Last academic year, CET was conducted on May 2 and 3. Sources in the

SEOUL:  South Korea, Japan and the US on Tuesday began a joint missile warning exercise, which would help bolster their ability to track and detect missiles in the event of attacks by North Korea. The two-day trilateral manoeuver began in waters off the South Korean and Japanese coasts, with four

London: Cristiano Ronaldo has caught up with Lionel Messi to become a five-time winner of FIFA's best player award. The Real Madrid forward was crowned player of the year on Monday at the FIFA Best ceremony at the London Palladium theater attended by runner-up Messi and third-placed Neymar. A

Vodafone and Micromax have come together to launch the Bharat-2 Ultra 4G-capable feature phone in a bid to take on Jio Phone. This is the second such partnership for Micromax, which launched the Bharat-1 last week in partnership with BSNL. The Vodafone phone's effective price will be Rs. 999 if the

A Gujarat metropolitan court on Tuesday issued summons to a reporter and editors of ‘The Wire’ in a criminal defamation suit filed by Jay Shah, son of BJP president Amit Shah. The court held that there was a prima facie case and ordered them to appear before it on November 13. Jay Shah had moved

Cross-country woman biker Sana Iqbal from Hyderabad died in a car accident on Tuesday morning on the outskirts of the city. Sana was known for her crusade against suicide and depression and covered nearly 38,000 kms across the country to give inspirational speeches in schools and colleges. Police

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered demolition of a parking lot, which is being built within a kilometre of the iconic Taj Mahal in Agra. The apex court’s order came two days before the scheduled visit of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to the historic monument on October 26. Adityanat

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested the son of Hizbul Mujahideen founder Syed Salahuddin in a six-year-old case of terror funding through hawala channels on Tuesday, a day after the Centre appointed an interlocutor to hold a “sustained dialogue” with all stakeholders in Jammu and Kashmi

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday arrived in Pakistan on a whirlwind visit to normalise bilateral ties strained after President Donald Trump accused the country of providing safe havens to terrorist groups. Mr. Tillerson’s crucial visit to Islamabad comes days after he made a major p

COX’S BAZAR: Queen Rania of Jordan visited Rohingya refugee camps in Ukhia and Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh on Monday. As a board member of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and an advocate of the work of UN humanitarian agencies, Queen Rania made the trip to highlight the urgent need for gre

Qatar takes great pride in how neat and clean the country is and it goes the extra mile to ensure that it remains that way. Yesterday’s measure, by HH The Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, only reinforces the belief that the country means business when it comes to maintaining cleanliness with

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Atomic Energy and Space Jitendra Singh on Monday said that India's Space mission to Moon 'Chandrayaan II' will take place in 2018, possibly in the first quarter of the year. Singh, who was addressing the annual inaugural session of the five-day Asian

NEW DELHI: Apple seems to have discontinued the biggest storage variant (256GB) of iPhone 7. According to a report in Mashable, the Cupertino giant Apple no longer sells 256GB iPhone 7. According to the report, the company appears to have discontinued the smartphone on September 12 itself, the da

بیت المقدس: اسرائیلی پولیس نے فیس بک پرصبح بخیر لکھنے پر فلسطینی نوجوان کو گرفتارکرلیا۔ غاصب صہیونیوں نے فلسطینیوں پر عرصہ حیات تنگ کرنے کے بعد اب انہیں سوشل میڈیا پر بھی جکڑنے کا عمل شروع کردیا ہے۔ فلسطینیوں کے لیے گڈ مارننگ لکھنا بھی جرم بن گیا ۔ فیس بک پر ایک فلسطینی لڑکے نے عربی زبان میں ’گڈمار

To mark the first anniversary of demonitisation, Opposition parties have decided to observe November 8 as ''black day.'. Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, addressing a joint press conference with Trinamool Congress’s Derek O’Brien and JD(U) rebel Sharad Yadav, said

Bhatkallys News Bureau Karwar 24 Oct 2017: Uttara Kannada District Waqf board on Monday demanded a new office for the board in a meeting organized at Karwar. Babu Shaikh while addressing the meeting said the board has already submitted a memorandum to the district In-charge minister to shift t

ہانگ کانگ۔ ہانگ کانگ کی عدالت عظمیٰ نے 2014میں وسیع پیمانے پر ہوئے جمہوریت حامی مظاہروں کے دوران غیر قانونی طریقے سے بھیڑ جمع کرنے کے الزام میں بند جمہوریت کے حامی دو کارکنان کو آج ضمانت دےدی۔ ہانگ کانگ کی اپیلیٹ عدالت نے اگست میں چین کے اقتدار والے شہر میں جمہوریت حامی مہم چلانے والے لیڈران وونگ ،

اناؤ۔ لکھنؤ۔ آگرہ ایکسپریس وے آج کچھ دیر کے لئے میدان جنگ میں تبدیل ہو گیا جہاں فضائیہ کے جنگی طیاروں کے بیڑے کی ریڑھ کی ہڈی مانے جانے والے اہم طیاروں میں ہرکیولس طیارہ نے اپنے جوہر اور حیرت انگیز مہارت کا نمونہ پیش کرتے ہوئے ملک کے باشندوں کو اس بات کا یقین دلایا کہ وہ جنگ اور امن کے وقت میں کسی ب