Several countries, including Australia, Iran, UK and Vietnam, will participate in the 14-day India International Trade Fair 2019 beginning here on Thursday. The theme for the 39th edition of the fair (November 14-27, 2019) is ‘Ease of Doing Business’ inspired by India’s unique achievement of rising to 63rd rank on the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Index from 142nd ...

The BJP on Sunday slammed Congress leader Navjot Sidhu for praising Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan at the Kartarpur corridor inauguration across the international border and allegedly seeking to present Pakistani leadership on a higher pedestal than India’s. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra criticised Sidhu’s remarks praising Imran Khan and describing him as the king of hearts. Sidhu had said, “Sikandar ...

Hundreds of students protested near the Jawaharlal Nehru University here on Monday against the administration’s “anti-students” policy. Students wanted to march towards the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), where Vice President Venkaiah Naidu is addressing the university’s convocation at an auditorium. The gates of the AICTE, around 3 km from the JNU, were locked and the security personnel ...

No claimants have come forward for about a dozen dormant Swiss bank accounts linked to Indians, leaving the funds lying in these accounts at the risk of getting transferred to the Switzerland government. The Swiss government began making details of dormant accounts public in 2015 to allow their claimants submit necessary proof to get access to those funds, which included ...

Less than 1100 cases of dengue and no deaths due to the mosquito-borne disease have been reported so far this year in the city, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday. In a video message posted on Twitter, he said this was an achievement in comparison to 2015 when over 15,000 dengue cases had been recorded and 60 people ...

The Meteorological (MeT) department has predicted rain and snowfall in Himachal Pradesh this weekend. Rain and snowfall may occur at isolated places in the high hills, while rainfall and thunderstorm may take place in middle hills from November 14 to 16, Shimla MeT Centre Director Manmohan Singh said on Sunday. With minus 6.9 degrees Celsius, tribal district Lahaul and Spiti’s ...

A Goa-bound man was apprehended at the Delhi airport for allegedly carrying 10 bullets in his baggage, an official said. Passenger R P Mishra was going through security checks at the Indira Gandhi International Airport around 11 am on Friday when a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel detected “bullet-like objects” in his hand baggage, he said. “Ten live bullets ...

The hearing in the politically and religiously sensitive decades-old temple-mosque land dispute in Ayodhya was the second longest proceedings in the history of the Supreme Court which had lasted for 40 days. The high voltage hearing in the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute involving 2.77 acres of land had commenced on August 6 and concluded on October 16, and the apex ...

Fresh snowfall was experienced in parts of Kashmir as a thick layer of fog engulfed the Valley on Saturday, affecting air traffic here, officials said. A few places in the higher reaches of Kashmir experienced fresh snowfall during the night, an official of the MeT Department said. Kokernag town in south Kashmir recorded 3.8 mm of snow, while the highway ...

Alternative land for mosque The Supreme Court on Saturday paved the way for the construction of a Ram Temple by a Trust at the disputed site at Ayodhya, and directed the Centre to allot an alternative 5-acre plot to the Sunni Waqf Board for building a new mosque at a “prominent” place in the holy town in Uttar Pradesh. In ...