Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrived in Jammu on Monday on a three-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir. Singh is visiting the state to take stock of the situation on the international border in the Jammu region and the line of actual control between India and China in the Ladakh region of the sta

The United Nations has been criticised for handing Saudi Arabia a key human rights role - despite the country having "arguably the worst record in the world" on freedoms for women, minorities and dissidents. Critics, including the wife of imprisoned pro-democracy blogger Raif Badawi - sentenced t

MANGALURU: Former Union minister and Congress leader B Janardhan Poojary alleged that there is a big scam in handing over the work of Yettinahole project to partner of Meghana Constructions Kapil Mohan, who is a corrupt IAS officer and had been earlier raided by enforcement agencies. Poojary told

RIYADH: An estimated 50,000 animals are expected to be slaughtered in the capital as part of the Eid Al-Adha sacrificial rites on Thursday. There are about seven slaughterhouses in various localities of the city. Riyadh municipality said these places are ready to receive sacrificial animals during

دبئی ۔ (العربیہ) سعودی عرب کے وزیر برائے امورحج ڈاکٹر بندر بن محمد حجار نے کہا ہے کہ خادم الحرمین الشریفین شاہ سلمان بن عبدالعزیز نے اللہ کے مہمانوں کی خدمت کو سعودی قوم اور پوری قیادت کے لیے باعث شرف قرار دیا ہے۔ انہوں نے تمام متعلقہ حکومتی محکموں کو حجاج کرام کو ہر ممکن سہولت اور آرام وراحت پہنچان

بھٹکلیس نیوز / 20 ستمبر، 15 نئی دہلی / (یواین آئی) ہندوستان نے امید ظاہر کی ہے کہ نیپال کے رہنما آئین سازی کے اس اہم مرحلہ میں ذہنی پختگی اور لچکدار موقف اپنائیں گے تاکہ ملک میں پائیدار بنیاد پر قابل قبول آئین سازی ہو سکے۔ نیپال سے واپس آنے پر خارجہ سکریٹری  ایس جئے شنکر نے آج یہاں ایک بیان میں کہ

U.T. Khader, Health and Family Welfare Minister, said on Saturday that people of Dakshina Kannada should show their large heartedness and allow water from Yettinahole Project to flow to the parched districts of South Karnataka. Speaking to presspersons here, Mr. Khader said that districts includi

OTTAWA: Canada's conservative government on Saturday said that it would accept 10,000 Syrian refugees within one year by simplifying and speeding up the immigration application process. Visa officers will no longer ask the applicants to prove that they are refugees through a United Nations refuge

JEDDAH: The capacity of electricity plants at the holy sites now stands at 18,680MW, according to the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC). Ziyad bin Mohammad Al-Sheiha, chief executive officer of the SEC, said that various upgrades and distribution projects have been completed to meet the expected incr

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Twenty-two suspects have been detained in connection with a deadly attack on a Pakistan air force base claimed by the Taliban, officials said Saturday. Pakistani Taliban militants dressed in official uniforms attacked the air force base near the northwestern city of Peshawar on

The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) will borrow around Rs.12,000 crore of loan from various international banks and investors for completion of the second phase of the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. The second phase of the project will cost Rs. 26,400 crore and is expe

VASCO: Goa Customs seized 1,047 gm of gold bars worth 25.20 lakh from a domestic passenger at Dabolim airport on Friday. The passenger and an accomplice – both natives of Bhatkal – were arrested. Additional Commissioner of Customs G B Santimano informed that the smugglers had arrived from Mumbai by

امریکہ کے دارالحکومت واشنگٹن میں سٹیٹ ڈپارٹمنٹ کے نائب ترجمان مارک ٹونر کا کہنا ہے کہ گذشتہ روز بڈھ بیر میں پاکستان فضائیہ کے کیمپ پر حملہ کرنے والوں کا مقصد پاکستانی فوج کے خاندان والوں کو نشانہ بنانا تھا جو کہ انتہائی قابل مذمت ہے۔ امریکی سٹیٹ ڈپارٹمنٹ کے ترجمان مارک ٹونر نے ایک نیوز بریفینگ میں

چین نے خبردار کیا ہے کہ جاپانی فوج کے ملکی سرحدوں سے باہر کردار سے متعلق متنازعہ قانون کی منظوری کے بعد جاپان علاقائی امن کو خطرے میں ڈالنے سے اجتناب برتے۔ چین کا کہنا ہے کہ جاپان اپنی فوج کے بیرونِ ملک کردار میں توسیع کے قانون کی منظوری سے خطے کے امن کو خطرے میں ڈال رہا ہے۔ جاپانی پارلیمان نے دوس

President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has sworn in a new government, one week after the previous Cabinet resigned amid a corruption probe, Egypt's state news agency reported. The new government, headed by Prime Minister Sherif Ismail, a former petroleum minister, took office on Saturday, after state-fri

ASTRONOMERS have discovered two massive black holes are on course to collide causing a titanic blast capable of destroying an entire galaxy. But before you break out your end-of-the-world survival packs, fear not, the galaxy is not ours. (Phew?!). Researchers using data from NASA’s Galaxy Evol

The US government whistleblower Edward Snowden believes encryption might make it difficult or even impossible to distinguish signals from alien species from cosmic background radiation. On Friday night, Snowden appeared from Moscow on the astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyso

NEW DELHI: Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma courted a major controversy with his remarks that late president A P J Abdul Kalam was a great nationalist "despite being a Muslim" with Congress terming the comments as "vicious". "We have renamed Aurangzeb Road after a person, who despite being a