Srinagar: Srinagar is all set to embrace modernization and sustainable transportation as it welcomes the arrival of its first all-weather e-bus equipped with state-of-the-art features. As part of the Smart City project, the city aims to revolutionize its public transport system, enhance connectivity, and reduce environmental impact. The prototype of the first e-bus has already […]
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NEW DELHI: India’s parliament on Wednesday authorised a no-confidence vote against Narendra Modi’s government by an alliance of opposition parties, to force the prime minister to address in detail concerns about ethnic clashes in a northeastern state. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has a clear majority of 301 members in the 542-seat lower house of […]
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More than 40 people have died in Algeria, Italy and Greece and thousands have been evacuated as Mediterranean wildfires threaten villages and holiday resorts. The entire island of Rhodes has been put into a state of emergency, as fires also rage on Corfu and Evia. The current long heatwave shows no let-up – temperatures are […]
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THE HAGUE: Helicopters and a boat evacuated 23 crew members from a car carrier ship off the Netherlands early Wednesday, after a fire killed at least one sailor, the Dutch coastguard said. Rescue personnel received a call shortly after midnight (2200 GMT Tuesday) saying a fire had started on the Fremantle Highway, a Panamanian-registered ship […]
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Drass (Ladakh): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said while the jawans of the Indian Army did not step across the Line of Control (LoC) during the Kargil conflict in 1999, they could have ventured inside enemy territory if they so wanted. Addressing an event commemorating solders, who laid down their lives on the line […]
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ISLAMABAD: Women parliamentarians from the opposition PTI protested in a joint session of Parliament on Tuesday after Defence Minister Khawaja Asif used sexist and derogatory remarks while referring to them — in yet another instance of using offensive language for women politicians. He made the remarks in response to criticism by parliamentarians — including PTI […]
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Sweden’s foreign minister said Tuesday that his government is trying to change the law to prevent future attacks on the Quran, describing them as “despicable.” Tobias Billstrom spoke by phone with his Algerian counterpart Ahmed Attaf, according to Algeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During their conversation, Billstrom pointed to constitutional restrictions that limit the ability […]
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Jammu: Union Minister of State Science and Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh today said, Jammu is going to pioneer India’s first Cannabis Medicine Project. “Cannabis Research Project” of CSIR-IIIM Jammu is a first of its kind in India initiated under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in Private Public Partnership with a Canadian firm, which […]
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SARGODHA/ ISLAMABAD: A child domestic worker working at the residence of a civil judge in Islamabad was brutally tortured, with her parents alleging that the judge’s wife was responsible for the girl’s condition. Videos and images of the 14-year-old girl showed the victim with deep gashes on the head and a swollen and bruised face, […]
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A court in Brussels has found six men guilty of terrorist murder, more than seven years after suicide bomb attacks killed 32 people at the city’s airport and a metro station in March 2016. After a long trial and 19 days of jury deliberations, the court in Brussels returned their verdicts. Several of those on […]
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