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Trucker arrested for California bus crash that killed 13
Indio (US): A trucker charged with killing 13 people after a Southern California tour bus rear-ended his big-rig on a freeway last year was arrested in Georgia. Bruce Guilford, 51, of Georgia was taken into custody by a US Marshals Service fugitive task force, the Riverside County district attorn
PM Modi blaming others to hide his govt.’s failures: Congress
Bengaluru : Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of backing away from responsibilities by shifting blame and slamming Opposition at every failure of the ruling dispensation at the Centre. “He cannot back away from responsibilities by shifting th
Cracker ban goes up in smoke on Diwali night, Delhi wakes up to hazy morning
New Delhi: Delhi and the National Capital Region woke up to a blanket of smog today, after a quiet and promising Dilwai evening gave way to noisy and relentless bursting of firecrackers till late night yesterday, despite a Supreme Court ban on their sale in the NCR. The online indicators of the p
Cong. wants probe by SC judges into Jay Shah firm’s business dealings
The Congress on Tuesday demanded a high-level probe into the business dealings of the firm owned by Jay Shah, son of BJP president Amit Shah, by two sitting Supreme Court judges. It also wanted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP to ask their national president to forthwith resign or remove him
Team formed to keep a check on decibel level of firecrackers
Even as the Mysuru district administration has issued guidelines to the public on bursting crackers, a team of government officials has been constituted to check if crackers sold in the city are within sound limits specified by the Centre’s Environment (Protection) Act. The team, comprising three
Pak court extends Hafiz Saeed’s house arrest for another 30 days
Mumbai attack mastermind and banned Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed’s house arrest was on Thursday extended for another 30 days by a Judicial Review Board of Pakistan’s Punjab province. However, the board refused to allow the same in the detention of his four aides. The 30-day detention will
UAE to implement region’s largest airspace restructuring
The UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) plans to implement one of the largest airspace changes the region has ever seen, it announced on Wednesday. The UAE Airspace Restructuring Project (ARP) will be completed on December 7 and is primarily aimed to increase the country’s airspace capa
Oman just allowed citizens of 25 countries to enter on an unsponsored e-visa
Muscat: Royal Oman Police has announced that citizens of some 25 countries can now come to Oman on a non-sponsored e-visa. In a statement posted online, Royal Oman Police listed the 25 countries and added: "Regulations for Granting E- Non-Sponsor Tourist Visa for Citizens of the Following Countri
Jio Rs. 459 Pack to Replace Rs. 399 Plan as Part of Price Hike
Jio will raise the prices of its Rs. 399 Dhan Dhana Dhan plan to Rs. 459 as part of the tariff revision the company had promised last week while announcing its Diwali cashback offer. Gadgets 360 has learned that the new Jio 459 plan will provide users with 1GB of high-speed data per day for 84 days,
Apple responds on Face ID privacy concerns
After a US Senator wrote to Apple CEO Tim Cook, conveying concerns on users’ security with Face ID biometric security in iPhone X, Apple has responded to him, detailing Face ID’s built-in security features. In September, Senator Al Franken (Democrat-Minnesota) had asked several questions related
9-Year-Old girl dies in Patna AIIMS as father made to wait in queue for formalities
PATNA: As a 9-year-old girl died at Patna AIIMS while her poor father completed the formalities for her treatment and an official posted at the counter refused to help him, the opposition RJD on Wednesday demanded a high-level probe into the matter. Raushan Kumari, suffering from high fever for s
Delhi Braces For Pollution 'Airpocalypse' As Smog Looms
SONIPAT, HARYANA: As India celebrates Diwali this week, scientists fear a ban on sale of firecrackers and other emergency anti-pollution measures deployed by authorities may not be enough to prevent a repeat of last year's "airpocalypse" in Delhi. Each year, as winter descends on the national ca
Pak anti-corruption court indicts Sharif, daughter, son-in-law
Pakistan's ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter and son-in-law were indicted today by an anti-graft court in a corruption case related to the Avenfield property in London. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had registered three cases of corruption and money laundering against 67
Barack Obama returns to the political arena
Richmond: Barack Obama is returning to the political arena for the first time in months after keeping a low profile and avoiding direct confrontation with his White House successor. The 56-year-old former president is scheduled to attend campaign rallies in New Jersey and Virginia today to suppor
Kerala HC encourages inter-religious marriages, says not all ‘love jihad’
Kochi: “All love marriages should not be termed as ‘love-jihad‘,” observed the Kerala High Court, on Thursday, while hearing a petition with regard to an inter-religious marriage of Kannur-native Sruthi and Anees Hammed. The court further said that these kind of marriages should be encouraged as
Earthquake hits off the coast of Jeddah
Jeddah: An earthquake of magnitude 3 hits off the coast of Jeddah on Tuesday. According to news published in Khaleej Times, the Saudi Geological Survey said that an earthquake with a magnitude of 3 on the Richter Scale was recorded by seismic monitoring stations of its National Centre for Seismol
Ramdev power: Two PIOs transferred after exposing Patanjali land deals
NEW DELHI: Two Public Information Officials (PIOs) were transferred less than a fortnight after they helped make public RTI documents on generous land allotment deal to Baba Ramdev’s multi-crore venture Patanjali. According to an article published by the Times of India, it has been reported that
Inzamam’s nephew Imam-ul-Haq smashed century on debut, clinch series vs Sri Lanka
Abu Dhabi: Young opener Imam-ul-Haq, nephew of Pakistan great Inzamam-ul-Haq, smashed a hundred on debut to guide his side to a seven-wicket win in the third one-day international against Sri Lanka. Seamer Hasan Ali became the quickest bowler to reach 50 ODI wickets for Pakistan as his 5-34 saw S