Day: September 14, 2019

Pakistani Army today retrieved the bodies of two of its soldiers who were killed by the Indian Army in retaliation to unprovoked ceasefire violation by Pakistan on 11 September.

NCP MP Udayanraje Bhosale joined the Bharatiya Janata Party here today in the presence of top saffron party leaders, including its president Amit Shah and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, with Shah asserting that the BJP-led alliance will come back to power in the state with three-fourths majority. 

Former England off-spinner Monty Panesar, who recently turned author with his book ‘The Full Monty’, has spoken of plans to take on the world of politics, possibly as a future Mayor of London.

BJP president and Home Minister Amit Shah and his party colleagues mopped the floor at the AIIMS and met sanitation workers and children admitted at the hospital as he launched a ‘seva saptah’ (week of service) on Saturday to celebrate Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday 17 September.

Yugandhar had served in the Prime Minister’s Office during late P V Narasimha Rao’s regime and also as director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration at Mussorie.

Tamilnadu government on Friday hit out at DMK President MK Stalin on his criticism regarding investments received by the state and gave a detailed picture on the two editions of Global Investors’ Meet held in 2015 and 2019. Industries Minister M C Sampath also slammed Stalin, saying “political vendetta” was behind his criticism the government over the investments front.

Almost every other political party in the State are involved in banner culture. This cutout culture is not new to Tamilnadu. It is a straight offshoot of politics-film nexus. Not just politicians and film stars, even for small weddings in remote villages, these banners and hoardings are put up at will.

The US Department of Justice has launched an investigation into sexual abuse in US Olympic sports, becoming the latest federal agency to probe failures in the country’s Olympic organizations, the ‘Wall Street Journal’ reported.

Former Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe will be given a state funeral today with a dozen African leaders expected to pay tribute to a man lauded as a colonial-era liberation hero.

Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer are among the global top 10 who will play for their countries at the new ATP Cup in Australia in January, organisers said today.