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The Indian cricket team will tour Bangladesh next month for a one-off Test and three ODIs, the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced on Monday. The one-off Test will take place between June 10 and 14 at Fatullah while the ODIs will be played on June 18, 21 and 24 in Mirpur. The […]
Boltwood Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is furious and has slammed some online users, who have accused him of trying to garner “publicity” by talking about Nepal earthquake victims on his social mediapages. Bachchan, 72, has been active on Twitter, Facebook and blog with updates and appeals for the help of quake victims in the neighbouring country. “They comment I write about it for […]
Today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned to the Capital early this morning after a three- nation tour of France, Germany and Canada during which a number of key agreements were signed, including the supply of 36 Rafale fighter jets by France and uranium from Canada. Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyay along with party MLAs and […]
Today, a very appreciable and admirable thing happened to Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, in an unprecedented gesture addresses Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a global statesman, US President Barack Obama writes a piece for the prestigious Time magazine calling him India’s “reformer-in-chief”. In 166-word article, written as part of the Time magazine’s annual […]
Addressing Indian citizens at community reception in France, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that India has the right to demand permanent seat in UN Security Council. Speaking at Carrousel du Louvre, Modi said, “Gone are the days when India had to beg; now we command our rights. I urge the international community to […]
Today in Delhi, The President of India Pranab Mukherjee presented the Padma Vibhushan Award to Amitabh Bachchan and His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan, at a Civil Investiture Ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan in Award ceremony. Amitabh Bachchan attends award ceremony with his family including wife Jaya Bachchan, son Abhishek, daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai daughter Shweta Nanda […]
Today in Chennai, a group of 46 persons, including seven women and two children belonging to Tamil Nadu, reached in two private flights after they were evacuated from strife-torn Yemen, airport as per sources. The group members, most of them belonging to Madurai and Ramanathapuram districts, were part of the 334 people who landed in […]
Today, India welcomed the understanding worked out between Iran and the six world powers on Tehran’s contentious nuclear programme and hoped that this would lead to a comprehensive agreement by June 30. “A significant step seems to have been taken with agreement on the parameters of a comprehensive settlement to be negotiated by June 30,” […]
Today in Mumbai, An IAF plane carrying 190 Indian nationals evacuated from Yemen landed, in the government’s first major mission to rescue Indians stranded in the strife-torn nation. The evacuees, which included nurses and workers, among others, reached home in a special flight, thus bringing an end to their about a week-long ordeal. The Indian […]
Today, 350 stranded Indians were evacuated from strife-torn Yemen’s Aden city on an Indian Naval ship that will now take them to Djibouti, a country neighbouring Yemen and across the Red Sea. The evacuation operation took place in dark night conditions amid the escalating violence in Yemen. “INS Sumitra has left the Aden harbour and […]
