New Delhi : Manushi Chillar on Saturday won the coveted Miss World 2017 title in China, ending 16 years of drought for India at the international pageant. Priyanka Chopra was the last winner from India in 2000. Chillar, 21, looked emotional as the crown was placed on her head by Miss World 2016 Puerto Rico’s […]
Washington, November 19 : The top US nuclear commander said on Saturday that he would resist President Donald Trump if he ordered an “illegal” launch of nuclear weapons. Air Force General John Hyten, commander of the US Strategic Command (STRATCOM), told an audience at the Halifax International Security Forum in Nova Scotia, Canada that he had […]
New Delhi : Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been chosen for the 2017 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development by the international jury which made the announcement here tonight. A statement from Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust, institutor of the award, said, “The award is being presented to Dr Singh for his leadership […]
Offers to give up RS seat over inaction against Akalis Jalandhar : A day after boycotting an all-party meeting of MPs over Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh’s absence, senior Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa today reiterated that he had written to party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, offering to resign from his Rajya Sabha seat in protest […]
Indore, November 17 : Suyash Dixit, a 24-year-old software engineer in Indore, has declared himself as the king of an unclaimed strip of 2,072 square kilometers of land between Egypt and Sudan. Self-claimed king of this ‘no man’s land’, Suyash has founded the idea of the first ‘virtual governance of a kingdom’ and named it […]