The first prayers at Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, a 1,500 year old Unesco World Heritage site which has now been converted into a mosque, will take place on July 24, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. ...
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Even though it was a week of gain, on the last day of the trading week Sensex slipped 143.36 points to end at 36,594.33....
Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has quarantined himself at his personal residence after three persons posted at his official residence ‘Krishna’ tested positive for COVID-19. The Chief Minister, who held a cabinet meeting and also visited Karnataka’s largest COVID-19 care center on July 9 has cancelled all his engagements for the coming da...
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has laid out his rescue plan for the coronavirus-crippled US economy, while berating President Donald Trump as incompetent, the media reported on Friday. ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched Asia’s largest solar plant in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa, through video conferencing. Mr. Modi said the state will emerge as a major hub for clean and cheap power in the country....
The Delhi High Court while dismissing the petition filed by former JNU scholar Sharjeel Imam challenging the trial court order granting more time to the police to conclude the probe in a case against him, observed that the lockdown due the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the pace of the probe. ...
The Kerala gold smuggling case, which has rocked the Pinarayi Vijayan government, took a new turn on Friday with the National Investigating Agency (NIA) registering an FIR against four persons, including prime suspect Swapna Suresh, the high-profile woman who rubbed shoulders with the high and mighty in the state and was close...
Bahujan Samaj Party national president Mayawati has demanded an inquiry by the Supreme Court into the death of gangster Vikas Dubey in a police encounter in Kanpur on Friday. He was the main accused in the murder of eight policemen in Kanpur....
The Odisha government has approved the removal of five districts from the list of Left Wing Extremism (LWE)-affected areas, DGP Abhay said on Friday. ...