Prez gives award to Japanese, US scholars for promoting Hindi
Scholars from Japan and the US are among 26 individuals given awards by President Pranab Mukherjee for promoting Hindi language. The Hindi Sevi Samman awards for 2015 were given to the eminent writers at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan in which Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar was also present among...
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AI announces direct flights between New Delhi, Copenhagen
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Not ruling out rationalisation of GST rates: Revenue Secretary
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Average airfares fall by 18 % making air travel more affordable
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All options open for Air India revival: Govt
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Some banks use service charges to drive away customers: Mundra
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Markets soar to fresh highs on monsoon cheer, pharma rebound
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TRAI rules of tariff assessment on promotional offers, predatory pricing to be finalised in a month
31 May 2017 | PTI
Trump's Communications Director Dubke resigns
US President Donald Trump's Communications Director Mike Dubke has resigned, media reported on Tuesday. The veteran GOP strategist, who served in the post for three months, tendered his resignation on May 18. He offered to stay through the President's first foreign trip to ensure there was a smooth transition as he...
Former Panama dictator Manuel Noriega dead
Panama's former dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega, who died in Panama City, was physically diminished after decades of imprisonment for crimes committed during his 1983-1989 rule. Noriega, 83, passed away in the Panama City public Santo Tomas hospital where he had been recovering from early March surgery to remove a brain tumor,...
Globe trotting
Soldier killed, 5 injured in crash landing Moscow: A Russian soldier was killed and five others injured on Tuesday when their transport plane crash landed and caught fire near the central city of Saratov, authorities said. First Japanese to report Hiroshima atomic bomb dies Tokyo: Yoshie Oka, the first person to raise the...
Trump 'weakened' the West, hurt EU interests: German Foreign Minister
Germany unleashed a volley of criticism on Tuesday against US President Donald Trump, slamming his “short-sighted” policies that have “weakened the West” and hurt European interests. The sharp words from Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel came after Trump concluded his first official tour abroad which took him to Saudi Arabia, Israel, Brussels...
Bomb kills 13, hurts 24 in Baghdad; ISIS claims responsibility
A car bomb exploded outside a popular ice cream shop in central Baghdad just after midnight today, killing 13 people and wounding 24, hospital and police officials said. The ISIS hardline Wahhabi terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack, which Iraqi officials said involved apparently remotely detonated explosives inside a parked...
6 killed as deadly Cyclone Mora hits Bangladesh
At least six persons were killed as Cyclone Mora made landfall in Bangladesh on Tuesday, packing winds of up to 150 kilometres per hour and damaging several houses, with authorities scrambling to evacuate over half a million people from the coastal areas. In a special bulletin, Bangladesh Meteorological Department said the...
ISIS shelling kills 14 civilians in east Syria city: Monitor
Fourteen civilians were killed when ISIS Wahhabi terrorist group jihadists shelled a Government-controlled neighbourhood of Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor city, a monitor has said. Three children were among the dead in the regime-held Al-Joura district, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "The shelling hit just before families were gathering to...
