DOHA TALKS ON TUESDAY TO RESOLVE HORMUZ DISPUTE
NEW DELHI: The United States and Iran are holding talks in Doha on June 30 to resolve their escalating dispute and ongoing military skirmishes over the Strait of Hormuz. The two nations have reportedly agreed to a mutual freeze on strikes to allow these emergency diplomatic negotiations to proceed. U.S. President Donald Trump says Iran […]
NEW UP CONG INCHARGE ON “EQUAL” SEAT SHARING
NEW DELHI: The Congress’s newly appointed Uttar Pradesh in-charge, Rajendra Pal Gautam, has sought an equal seat-sharing arrangement with the Samajwadi Party. After assuming his new responsibility in Lucknow, he also praised BSP supremo Mayawati. Formal talks regarding seat-sharing for the UP assembly elections have not yet begun between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party. […]
STRONG EARTHQUAKE TREMORS FELT IN DELHI-NCR
NEW DELHI: Delhi and NCR areas felt strong earthquake tremors Saturday evening. The actual earthquake of 6.2 magnitude in Richter Scale actually struck the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan Saturday evening, according to initial seismic reports. It was so strong that the tremors were felt across parts of Pakistan and northwest India, including Delhi. The […]
CONG CALLS FOR DISSOLVING AYODHYA’S RAM MANDIR TRUST
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday questioned Prime Minister Modi’s silence on a big loot from the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya and wanted dissolution of the trust he had set up to run the temple s the people have lost confidence in it. Party spokesman Akhilesh Pratap Singh told a press conference here that the […]
PASSPORT VALID DOCUMENT FOR ELECTION COMMISSION
NEW DELHI: Election Commission officials have clarified that Indian passports continue to be among the 12 valid supporting documents required by voters to prove their eligibility to be on the voters’ list under the ongoing special intensive revision of electoral rolls. They were responding to a query following a controversy that arose after the Ministry […]
LOT OF SIMILARITIES BETWEEN PM MODI AND TRUMP
NEW DELHI: Despite the recent turbulence in India-US ties, the personal chemistry between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump remains the ultimate anchor of the relationship, said US Ambassador Sergio Gor. Gor, who has worked closely with Trump, emerging as one of his most trusted aides, said there were a lot of […]
SECOND EARTHQUAKE IN PAKISTAN
NEW DELHI: A 5.4-magnitude earthquake in Richter Scale struck Pakistan on Saturday, just hours after a 5.3-magnitude tremor shook the country on Friday evening, adding to concerns over heightened seismic activity across several parts of the world. The latest quake comes as Venezuela continues to grapple with the aftermath of two devastating earthquakes that have […]
SC SETTLES 7-DECADE OLD LAND DISPUTE
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court recently decided a seventy-year-old land dispute by upholding a sale deed signed in 1957. Four generations of a family got embroiled in the litigation for over seven decades. A bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and NV Anjaria finally decided a seven-decade-old dispute over 15.5 bighas in Narsipur Kalan village […]
CHAMPAT RAI QUITS AMID RAM MANDIR DONATION ROW
NEW DELHI: Champat Rai, 80-year old general secretary of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, an independent body that manages the Ayodhya shrine, and trustee Anil Mishra have submitted their resignations, an official confirmed. Champat Rai hailing from Bijnor district in U.P. is a vice-president of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and he was the […]
MANY DELHI DUST STORMS BECAUSE OF BROKEN ARAVALLI SHIELD
NEW DELHI: Delhi faced many dust storms this June because of the slow collapse of its natural defence: Aravallis, one of the planet’s oldest mountain systems, a 650km spine of hills that runs from Delhi through Haryana and Rajasthan into Gujarat. For ages, it has worked as a natural wall, blunting the hot, sand-laden winds […]
