A three-judge panel in a court in the Ukrainian capital found Vadim Shishimarin, a Russian tank-unit sergeant, committed premeditated murder when he shot and killed Oleksandr Shelipov, a civilian in the Ukrainian village of Chupakhivka. He was also ordered to pay for the costs of the trial. Sgt. Shishim...
Image Source : INDIA TV Fire breaks out at Nagpur’s Gorewada forest, cause unknown A fire has broken out in Nagpur’s Gorewada forest, and efforts are underway to douse the fire. The fire has spread out to more than 7 to 9 kilometers, and around eight fire brigade vehicles are on the spot. A...
Image Source : AP Anthony Albanese, center back, celebrates at a Labor Party event in Sydney, Australia Highlights Elections were held in Australia to determine whether Albanese will control a majority in Parliament Albanese had been in coalition with predecessor Scott Morrison under 3 PMs for 9 years A...
Image Source : AP Re-outbreak of Covid in Saudi Arabia? Country bans travel to 16 countries including India Highlights Saudi Arabia is currently facing a re-outbreak of Covid-19, which has led to a rapid surge in cases. The country has banned its citizens from traveling to sixteen countries, including I...
Image Source : AP Oman drops all remaining coronavirus restrictions Highlights The Oman government has said the public no longer needs to adhere to a litany of health precautions Mask-wearing in public places and avoiding large crowds are no longer on check The sultanate is logging some 20 virus cases a...
NEW DELHI : India may seek a permanent solution to the issue of public stockholding for food security during the 12th World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial conference starting on 12 June in Geneva. According to current WTO rules, a member country’s food subsidy bill should not breach 10% of the val...
Pressures of the hybrid work regime are prompting more women to quit, taking a toll on India Inc.’s attempts to foster workplace diversity. Among the primary reasons: Lack of childcare infrastructure in offices and pressure from schools for dedicated focus on child’s education as in the days of online s...
The additional borrowing requirement will be worked out later as the fiscal year has just started, the person said on the condition of anonymity. The government expects the tax cuts on fuel over the weekend to cool inflation, which shot up to an eight-year high in April. Following a fertilizer subsidy h...
Image Source : FILE PHOTO Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma was speaking at a media conclave by RSS-linked weeklies Panchjanya and Organiser Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday opposed madrassa education for children and said that schools should impart modern education so students have the cho...
Image Source : PTI Assam flood: Death toll rises to 24, more than 7.2 lakh hit. The flood situation in Assam deteriorated on Sunday with six more persons, including two children, losing their lives and nearly 7.2 lakh people coming under the impact of the deluge across 22 districts. According to the da...
Image Source : PTI Representative Image A 16-year-old boy was apprehended from Jharkhand’s Dumka district on Sunday after a video clip shared on social media showed him raining kicks on a girl in school uniform, a police officer said. Retweeting the video clip shared by a Twitter user, who claimed that...
Image Source : PTI/FILE The number of Covid containment zones stand at 676 in the city. Highlights Delhi reported 365 fresh Covid-19 cases on Sunday, one death, a day after city logged 479 new cases. The Test Positivity Rate in the national capital was recorded at 1.97 percent. The number of Covid con...
Image Source : PHOTO FOR REPRESENTATION Two, among the seven injured in the accident, are in critical condition. Two persons lost their lives while seven others were injured when a car skidded off and fell into a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district on Sunday. A 10-month-old baby was one...
Image Source : FILE Qutub Minar Highlights “No such decision has been taken”: Union Culture Minister Kishan Reddy on excavation at Qutub Minar. Reports claimed that the ministry of culture had ordered the ASI to excavate the complex. Earlier, VHP spokesman said Qutub Minar was actually...
Image Source : PTI/FILE The patient has shown only mild clinical symptoms and has been fully vaccinated. She had no travel history. The INSACOG has confirmed the presence of the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron sub-variants of the coronavirus in India — one case in Tamil Nadu and another in Telangana. BA.4...
Image Source : FILE PHOTO Representational image. Highlights UP govt clarifies no new order issued regarding surrender of ration cards Misleading and false reports circulated in this regard, state Food Commissioner Saurav Babu said Ration card verification was a normal process which took place from time...
Image Source : PTI Union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw during his visit to inspect the production of the Vande Bharat trains, at Integral Coach Factory in Chennai. Highlights Indian Railways will connect country’s different regions with Vande Bharat Express trains First two prototype rake...
Is inequality getting worse in India, and what does it mean for the poor in the country? These are some of the questions that arise following the release of the State of Inequality in India report by the Institute for Competitiveness. Mint examines the report’s findings. What does the report say? The re...
Image Source : PTI Former Pakistans prime minister Imran Khan speaks during a news conference in Islamabad. Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Imran Khan on Sunday asked his supporters to march peacefully to Islamabad on May 25 to press for the dissolution of the National Assembly and fresh elections in...
Image Source : PTI Telangana CM KC Rao, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann during a function to provide financial assistance to the kin of the farmers, who died during the protest over farm reform laws in Chandigarh. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Sunday here said far...
Image Source : INSTAGRAM/FELICIAPAUK Image representing a person infected with Monkeypox Belgium on Sunday became the first country in the world to make a 21-day quarantine compulsory for ‘monkeypox’, reported Dailymail. So far, 14 countries have reported cases of the viral disease, and B...
Image Source : FILE PHOTO Ahead of the Quad summit, China said that the Indo-Pacific strategy would eventually fail. China on Sunday launched a broadside against the Indo-Pacific strategy of the United States ahead of the summit of Quad leaders in Japan, saying that it is “bound to fail” as...
Fifty-seven percent of small-business owners expect economic conditions in the U.S. to worsen in the next year, up from 42% in April and equal to the all-time low recorded in April 2020, according to a survey of more than 600 small businesses conducted in May for The Wall Street Journal by Vistage World...
Image Source : PTI Gurudwara Shri Hemkund Sahib covered with a white blanket of snow, after snowfall in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, friday, Nov. 20, 2020. Portals of one of the most revered Sikh shrines, Hemkund Sahib, opened in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli on Sunday with a cap on the number of devotees t...
Image Source : AP Khatereh Ahmadi a TV anchor wears a face covering as she reads the news on TOLO NEWS Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Sunday began enforcing an order requiring all-female TV news anchors in the country to cover their faces while on-air. The move is part of a hard-line shift drawin...
Image Source : PTI Maharashtra slashes VAT on petrol and diesel. After Kerala and Rajasthan, Maharashtra has now reduced VAT on petrol by Rs 2.08 and diesel by Rs 1.44 per litre. This comes a day after Centre reduced excise duty on fuel. A statement issued by the government said the state exchequer wi...
Image Source : PTI Petrol pump workers fill petrol in vehicles in Jalandhar. Excise Cut: India Inc, traders and exporters have welcomed the Centre’s move to slash excise duty on auto fuels and urged states to follow suit to provide more relief to consumers. They said the price cut would lower inf...
Image Source : PTI A woman in her late 20s died by suicide in a Gujarat police station. A woman, who was summoned by cops to record her statement, died by suicide inside a police station in Gujarat on Sunday, said police officers. The cops have initiated an inquiry into the incident and have informed ....
Image Source : ANI Member of Parliament Arjun Singh. BJP West Bengal vice-president and MP Arjun Singh on Sunday joined Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the presence of party’s general secretary and Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee. Speculations about the growing distance between BJP pa...
Image Source : PTI The awe-inspiring stunt of balancing oneself on two moving motorcycles had become famous with Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn’s debut movie ‘Phool aur Kaante’. He performed the stunt again ‘Golmaal 3’ using two cars. A 21-year-old man has been arrested in No...
Image Source : PTI CBI files FIR against five members of an advisory panel. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed an FIR against five members of an advisory panel of the West Bengal School Service Commission in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in recruitment to Group...
Image Source : ANI Bombs in huge quantities were defused in West Bengal. At least 1,000 live bombs were neutralised by the disposal squad which were found in the Hogla forest area of Bakcha in Purba Medinipur in West Bengal. Bombs in huge quantities were recovered on Saturday, West Bengal police informe...
Image Source : PTI Azam Khan, Shivpal Yadav skip Samajwadi Party MLAs meet Highlights Azam Khan and Shivpal Yadav on Sunday skipped the party MLAs meeting called by SP. Khan, who was recently released from Sitapur Jail, is in Rampur. Azam Khan and Shivpal Yadav on Sunday skipped the party MLAs meeting c...
Image Source : AP 92 monkeypox cases confirmed in 12 countries, may spread globally: WHO Highlights Monkeypox is a viral zoonosis (a virus transmitted to humans from animals) Symptoms of monkeypox are very similar to those seen in the past in smallpox patients Monkeypox has been said to be clinically le...
Following the Centre’s decision to reduce the excise duty on petrol and diesel, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday said that his government will consider further cut in fuel tax. The chief minister was speaking to mediapersons ahead of his visit to Davos, to take part in World Eco...
Image Source : AP Police investigate the scene of a deadly shooting late Friday, in San Bernardino, Calif., on Saturday, May 21, 2022. Highlights One man was killed and eight people were wounded during an overnight shooting at a California party. The party drew about 100 people to a Southern California...
Image Source : PTI/REPRESENTATIVE Iraq reports 90 hemorrhagic fever cases, 18 deaths Highlights The number of cases could rise further if some other suspected cases are confirmed, the country said There has been a serious increase in the VHF cases in Iraq recently, it said The Iraqi Health Ministry has...
Follow us on Image Source : AP Volunteers stand outside a polling station as they wait for Australian Prime Minister to vote in Sydney Australia’s PM Scott Morrison conceded election defeat on Saturday, reported news agency AFP. Latest World News Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt Source li...
Image Source : PTI Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu comes out after his medical examination following his surrender in the Patiala court. Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, who has been sentenced to a one-year jail term in a road-rage case, has been lodged in Barrack No. 10 at the central jail here...
Image Source : PTI/REPRESENTATIONAL PICTURE India sends another 40,000 metric tonnes of diesel to Sri Lanka. India extended an additional USD 500 million credit line to help Sri Lanka import fuel as the country has been struggling to pay for imports after its foreign exchange reserves plummeted sharply...
Image Source : @TELANGANACMO The Telangana CM will be meeting other leaders also and this is his second leg of meeting with like-minded parties. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday met Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in the national capital and discussed various issues concerni...
Image Source : PTI U.S. President Joe Biden burns incense at Seoul National Cemetery in Seoul Saturday, May 21, 2022. President Biden on Saturday signed legislation to support Ukraine with another USD 40 billion in U.S. assistance as the Russian invasion approaches its fourth month. The legislation, whi...
Image Source : PTI Five people were arrested for raping a minor in Rajasthan. Five people were booked from Rajasthan’s Nagaur district on Saturday for raping a 14-year-old girl, police said on Saturday. The incident took place on April 6 in the Chitawa police station area when the girl had gone to...
Image Source : PTI Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses the Ideas for India conclave in the United Kingdom. Backtracking from his stand-in Udaipur, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said his party respects regional outfits and does not want to be ‘the Big Daddy’ while asserting that the fight a...
In a peculiar incident, a man took his dog inside the premises of the Kedarnath shrine and offered prayers by making the dog touch the idol of Lord Nandi. An FIR was registered in the matter against the unknown person. Rudraprayag Superintendent of Police (SP), Ayush Aggarwal told news agency ANI...
Image Source : AP In biggest victory yet, Russia claims to capture Mariupol Highlights Russia claimed to have captured Mariupol after a nearly three-month siege. 2,439 Ukrainian fighters who had been holed up at the steelworks surrendered since Monday. As they surrendered, the troops were taken prisoner...
Image Source : PUNEGOVT.IN Pune: Woman dancer among 4 booked for shooting ‘Lavani’ video at place associated with Shivaji Maharaj. Highlights Police have registered a case against a female Marathi artiste & 3 others in Pune Some political outfits condemned the dance video and tender an a...
Image Source : PTI CBI grills Bengal minister Paresh Adhikari for third day over daughter’s ‘illegal’ appointment Highlights CBI on Saturday interrogated West Bengal minister Paresh Adhikari. He was questioned over his daughter Ankita’s “illegal” appointment as a prim...
Image Source : PTI (FILE IMAGE) In a major faux pas, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan shares Rajiv Gandhi’s controversial quote, deletes later In a major faux pas, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan shared a controversial quote of Rajiv Gandhi. He made the blunder on his official Twitter handle while paying...
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