No one Helped us Cremate Body – Man Dies of COVID-19 on Monday, Family Keeps Body in Freezer For 48 Hours New Delhi: While on paper, all arrangements – for COVID-19 treatment to cremation – are there, a Kolkata family had to undergo a 48-hour ordeal with the body of a septuagenarian coronavirus patient as nobody…

IBPS RRB PO, Clerk Recruitment 2020 – Form released, check eligibility New Delhi, July 02: The IBPS RRB PO, Clerk Recruitment 2020 application form has been released. The same is also available on the official website. The application process for the recruitment at the posts of officers in the Scale I, II and III level and…

Nepal PM Oli gets President nod to prorogue Parliament amid calls for his resignation Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari Thursday approved the government’s proposal to prorogue the ongoing Parliamentary session, news agency ANI reported. This comes as a relief to Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli, who is facing stiff opposition from within the ruling…

Two TikTokers desecrate idol in a temple; arrested An exasperating video has surfaced the Internet which showed a person vandalizing the idol in a temple in Shapar Veraval industrial zone in Rajkot. After the video went viral, the persons were arrested by Police on Wednesday. The accused seen in the camera has been identified as…

Defence Ministry approves proposal to acquire 33 new fighter aircraft from Russia The Ministry of Defence on Thursday approved a proposal to acquire 33 new fighter aircraft from Russia. These include 12 Su-30MKIs and 21 MiG-29s along with upgradation of 59 existing MiG-29s. The total cost of these projects would be Rs 18,148 crores, the…

Britain Recognises Juan Guaido as Venezuela Prez as Court Rejects Maduro’s Claim on $1 Bn in UK Vaults Britain has recognised Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country’s president, the English High Court has ruled, in a case over whether Guaido or Nicolas Maduro should control $1 billion of its gold stored in London….

‘Please deport us’, foreign Jamaat attendees say in plea; Supreme Court says won’t interfere in Centre’s action Foreign nationals who attended the Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi’s Nizamuddin area in March have requested the Supreme Court that they should be deported to their home countries. A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court by…

PM Narendra Modi speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin, congratulates him for successful constitutional reform vote NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the phone and congratulated him on the success of the 75th-anniversary celebrations of the victory in the Second World War, and also for successful completion…

China warns of consequences if UK offers residency to Hong Kong citizens China promised Thursday to take countermeasures against Britain if it presses ahead with plans to extend citizenship rights to Hong Kongers after Beijing imposed a sweeping security law on the restless financial hub. Beijing has faced a groundswell of criticism from primarily Western…

Pakistan Army rejects reports of additional deployment of troops along LoC The Pakistan Army on Thursday rejected as ‘false and irresponsible’ media reports that it has moved around 20,000 additional soldiers along the LoC in PoK and Gilgit-Baltistan to match the Chinese deployments on the LAC. The military’s media wing in a statement on Twitter…

‘Whose bullet killed my father?’ asks daughter of civilian killed in crossfire in Jammu and Kashmir’s Sopore militant attack Zulfikar Majid, The daughter of a civilian, who was killed during a militant attack on a CRPF party in north Kashmir’s Sopore town on Wednesday, asked the Kashmir police to come out with substantial evidence on…

UNSC’s Covid-19 resolution not applying to terrorists vindicates India’s long-held position PTI, The UNSC has unanimously adopted its first Covid-19 resolution that demands ‘immediate cessation of hostilities’ and explicitly states that it ‘does not apply’ to terror groups, a vindication of India’s position that terrorists do not respect ceasefires and such initiatives must be circumscribed…

All in One Peace – Reading Between The Lines of Governor RN Ravi’s Letter to Nagaland CM On June 25, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national general secretary Ram Madhav said the talks between the Centre and Naga political groups were in an ‘advanced stage’. ‘We are engaged in serious talk… we want an honourable solution…

UNSC on Karachi attack, says “Every act of terrorism is a crime, whatever the motive is” Geneva: The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has strongly condemned the terrorist attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi. In this terrorist attack on June 29, 11 people including 4 terrorists lost their lives. The UNSC said that terrorism…

China warned against ‘clear, serious’ violation of treaty with UK London: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnsonsaid China’s imposition of a new security law in Hong Kong constituted a clear and serious breach of the Sino-British Joint Declaration signed in 1984 and aimed at smoothing the transition when the territory was handed back to Beijing in 1997. The…