Beijing, July 18 : China’s state-run media on Tuesday rejected as “fake” a Pakistani news report that claimed over 150 Indian soldiers were killed in Sikkim in a Chinese rocket attack. “Chinese media outlets have carried out a series of investigations, claiming that the fake news should not be taken seriously,” People’s Daily Online reported. Chinese mainstream […]
New Delhi, July 18 : Bharatiya Janata Party leader Venkiah Naidu on Tuesday filed his nomination for vice-presidential election on Tuesday. Naidu, the BJP’s pick for vice-president, was accompanied by party veterans Murli Manohar Joshi and LK Advani, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief Amit Shah and Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj. Allies such […]
London, July 18 : Britain’s first woman Sikh MP has been elected to an influential cross-party panel in the UK Parliament that examines the workings of the Home Office. Preet Kaur Gill, who won the Edgbaston seat for the Labour party in the June 8 snap general election, was elected to the Home Affairs Select Committee […]
SYDNEY : An Australian cattle worker whose thumb was severed by a bull has had his toe surgically transplanted in its position. Zac Mitchell, 20, was injured in April while working on a remote farming property in Western Australia. “A bull kicked my hand into the fence,” Mr Mitchell said of the incident. He underwent two […]
Sangrur/abohar : Under stress due to rising debt, two more farmers in the state committed suicide in the past 24 hours. In the first incident, Gurmale Singh (28) of Ramgarh Jawandhe village in Sangrur allegedly consumed poison this morning. He died on the way to hospital. Gurmale owned only 2 acres of agricultural land. He had […]