Italy’s premier says that world leaders will keep up the pressure on President Donald Trump to re- think his opposition to the Paris climate pact. Paolo Gentiloni said today the Group of 20 meeting of major countries’ leaders, on July 7-8 in Hamburg, Germany, would present the opportunity to lobby the US administration. Gentiloni announced last month at the Group ...

A clinical India demolished a hapless Pakistan 7-1 to register their third consecutive victory and seal a place in the quarter-finals of the Hockey World League Semi-Final, in London on Sunday. While their cricketing counter parts lost their finals in the other part of the city, Indian hockey team topped their group to reach the quarter finals. Dragflicker Harmanpreet Singh ...

Ranked eighth out of eight at the start of the ICC Champions Trophy tournament for which they barely qualified, Pakistan’s prospects of reaching even the semi-finals looked at best a dream. But with this cricket team unpredictability comes as standard. The team was rejigged to such effect that the commentators were let wondering where Pakistan had been hiding these young ...

Posters have been put up outside the Aam Aadmi Party office in Delhi calling for the ouster of party leader Kumar Vishwas, accusing him of being a traitor and indulging in anti-party activities. The posters thank Dilip Pandey, who quit as convenor of the party’s Delhi unit in April following AAP’s defeat in MCD polls, accuse Vishwas of colluding with ...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has asked India to make its submission in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case by September 13, the Ministry of External Affairs said today and debunked Pakistan’s claim that its request seeking more time in case had been rejected. Pakistan has been asked by the court to complete its submission by December 13 this year, External ...

As per the practice, the Corbett Tiger and Rajaji Tiger reserves in Uttarakhand have been closed for monsoon break. Jim Corbett National Park is famous in the country for its eco tourism activities. Bijrani, Dhikala, Jhirna, Domunda, Sonanadi and Dhera are the zones where tourists flock in big numbers. There has been a spurt in the number of visitors to ...

The six-day budget session of Uttarakhand assembly, which concluded on late Thursday night, proved to be a historic one. Speaker Premchand Aggarwal said that the assembly conducted business for a record 11 hours and 25 minutes on Thursday, making it the longest session day in the history of Uttarakhand assembly. The assembly also passed the appropriation bill of Rs 39,957.13 ...

Switzerland ratified automatic exchange of financial account information with India and 40 other jurisdictions on Friday, which would facilitate immediate sharing of details about suspected black money even as it sought strict adherence to confidentiality and data security. Adopting the dispatch on introduction of the AEOI, a global convention for automatic information exchange on tax matters, the Swiss Federal Council ...

At least three pressure groups of Meghalaya today announced a series of protests demanding that the Congress government put on hold construction of railway project in Khasi Jaintia Hills region of the state. “We (members of the three organisations) will stage a sit-in-demonstration on June 21 to mark the beginning of our protest against construction of railway line in the ...

Amid a highly competitive telecom landscape after the entry of Jio, BSNL or Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has announced a new 3G mobile data offer priced at Rs. 444 for its prepaid users. Called ‘BSNL Chaukka – 444’, the promotional prepaid pack offers 4GB of data per day with a validity of 90 days. Reliance Jio’s free voice call offers ...