Kathmandu, May 11: The death toll in Nepal’s devastating earthquake may not exceed 10,000, Health and Population Minister Khagaraj Adhikari has said. According to him, the toll from the April 25 temblor, which has now crossed 8,000, may not cross the 10,000-mark as some had predicted, Xinhua quoted him as saying. More than 17,800 were […]
New Delhi, May 11 : Under attack over its statement in Parliament that it was not aware about Dawood Ibrahim’s whereabouts, the government today asserted that the Mumbai blast mastermind is in Pakistan and it will do everything to bring him to justice.“Whether we have to pursue Pakistan or pressurise it, we will not rest […]
New Delhi, May 11: A court on Monday asked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and four other AAP leaders to positively appear before it on May 15 in a case of violating prohibitory orders during their protest in January last year.Metropolitan Magistrate Akash Jain asked Kejriwal, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, Aam Padmi Party legislators […]
New Delhi, May 11: The Rajya Sabha on Monday approved amendments to the land boundary agreement bill to correct an error in the name of the act. The Constitution (One Hundred and Nineteenth Amendment) Bill, 2013 was passed by the Rajya Sabha earlier this week.The error was in the numbering of the bill as “119th” […]
Manila, May 10: More than 2,000 people were fleeing their homes as Typhoon Noul approached the northern Philippines today, triggering warnings of possible flash floods, landslides and tsunami-like storm surges. The storm’s movement has slowed slightly but it has also strengthened to pack gusts of 220 kilometres per hour, said Esperanza Cayanan, chief of the […]