A 35-year-old Indian man was found hanging at his accommodation in Ras Al Khaimah city in the UAE and a suicide note found from his phone said he took the drastic step due to several health issues, authorities said. The deceased, Rinoj Raveendran, hailed from Kerala and had been working in Al ...
Ahead of the Central government's move to move the triple talaq bill in Rajya Sabha, the Opposition parties on Monday held a meeting and decided to demand that the bill be referred to the select committee for further deliberations. The meeting, chaired by Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad in...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday hit out at the Congress, accusing it of "killing" the CBI in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh-Tulsiram Prajapati and Kausar Bi's alleged encounter killing case. He also said the principal Opposition party, which has been raising concerns over institutional independence, needs "serious introspec...
A Tokyo court on Monday extended to January 11 the detention of Nissan Motor´s former Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who was arrested in connection with financial misconduct allegations. The 64-year-old French-Brazilian businessman has been in pretrial detention since November 19 for allegedly concealing from the authorities part of the ...
Picturesque tourist resorts Shimla and Manali experienced another sunny day on Monday but temperatures remained below the freezing point at most places in Himachal Pradesh with chances of snow from January 1, the meteorological office said. The state capital recorded the minimum temperature at 5.6 degrees Celsius....
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has won a new term with a landslide victory, the country's Election Commission said on Monday, in an election marred by deadly violence and allegations of widespread rigging. Hasina's ruling Awami League (AL) party won a landslide of 288 votes out of the ...
An attack by Pakistan's Border Action Team (BAT) has been foiled by the army on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district, officials said on Monday. Army sources said that the BAT attack on a forward post in Naugam sector of the LoC was foiled on Sunday in which two attackers were killed....
The residents of national capital on Monday woke up to a cold morning as the mercury touched 3.8 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season's average, the Met Office said. "There was shallow to moderate fog in the morning along with dense fog in some ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin exchanged New Year greetings on Monday. In his congratulatory message to Putin, Xi said that the year 2018 has a special significance in China-Russia relations, and both countries have...
After a day's respite, severe cold wave again gripped the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh region on Monday, the Met Office said. An official of the Met department said the minimum temperature was minus 6.6 degree Celsius in Srinagar, while it was minus 5.5 degree Celsius in Pahalgam,...
