New Delhi: Delhi environment minister Gopal Rai on Wednesday, September 7 said the production, sale and use of all types of firecrackers will be banned in the national capital till January 1. He said the ban extends to online sale of firecrackers. “Production, storage, sale and use
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched the party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu. The Congress has said that the march is aimed at countering the “environment of hate” prevalent in the country, besides flagging the problems of increasing unemployment, rising
Kotli: Speakers at a seminar hosted in Kotli Azad Jammu and Kashmir said the Indian government’s nefarious designs in illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir are a direct violation of the UN Security Council resolutions and international law, including the 4th Geneva Convention. Addressing the gathering they
London: Liz Truss on Tuesday officially became Britain's new prime minister, at an audience with head of state Queen Elizabeth II after the resignation of Boris Johnson. The former foreign secretary, 47, was seen in an official photograph shaking hands with the monarch to accept her
Seoul: South Korea is expected to become the world's most aged country in 2044 amid rapid ageing, statistical office data. The proportion of South Korean people aged 65 or higher is forecast to account for 36.7% of the country's total population in 2044, according to Statistics
Paris: Companies in the Group of Seven (G7) economies are failing to meet Paris Climate Agreement objectives, non-profit disclosure platform CDP and global management consultancy Oliver Wyman said on Tuesday, based on current corporate pledges to cut emissions. Under the global 2015 Paris deal, countries agreed
Juba: Scores of civilians were killed in political clashes in South Sudan between February and May this year, a UN report said Tuesday, with women and children subjected to brutal assaults, including gang rape. The clashes between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and his rival,
Bosnia: Approximately 100,000 Muslims were martyred. 60,000 women and girls were raped. One and a half million people were abandoned. Do we remember it? Or have we forgotten it? Or are we totally ignorant about it? Christiana Amanpour of CNN spoke about the Bosnian massacres' memory
Jerusalem: The Israeli army said that there was a "high possibility" that Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was shot dead by an Israeli soldier who mistook her for a militant. "There is a high possibility that Ms Abu Akleh was accidentally hit by IDF (Israel Defense
Bangalore: Floods blamed on shoddy infrastructure crippled Indian IT hub Bangalore, with employees in the huge tech sector told to work from home and dozens of areas reportedly left without drinking water. The southern metropolis of around 8.5 million people boomed in the 1990s, with its