Day: June 18, 2019

PM Modi hails judiciary for striking balance between development & environment protection

Modi meets key secretaries in run up to Budget

8:58 pm June 18, 2019

New Delhi: Ahead of the maiden budget of his second term in office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday brainstormed with top bureaucrats of finance and other ministries for ideas to reverse a sagging economy and create jobs. Sources said the meeting at the Prime Minister’s residence had in attendance all five secretaries in the finance […]

Forest fire a serious issue, pray for rain: SC

8:56 pm June 18, 2019

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear on June 24 a plea seeking urgent steps to protect forests, wildlife and birds from wildfires in Uttarakhand, saying “it is an serious issue and in the meantime, pray for rain”. A vacation bench of justices Deepak Gupta and Surya Kant listed the matter for […]

We have not stuck to our batting mantra in last two games: Morgan

Morgan smashes sixes record as England amass 397/6

8:51 pm June 18, 2019

Manchester: Captain Eoin Morgan smashed a world record 17 sixes in his 71-ball-148, firing England to a gigantic 397 for 6 against Afghanistan in a World Cup game here on Tuesday. Morgan, enroute his career-best knock, also hit the fourth fastest hundred in World Cup history, getting his 13th ODI hundred off only 57 balls. […]

Egypt’s ousted President Morsi buried after courtroom death

8:46 pm June 18, 2019

Cairo: Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi, was buried under heavy security early on Tuesday, a day after his dramatic collapse and death inside a Cairo courtroom, his family and a member of his defense team said. Morsi’s family attended funeral prayers in the mosque of Cairo’s Tora prison, followed by the […]

Iran agrees de-escalation 'only solution' to solve crisis with US

Rouhani says world ‘praises’ Iran over US standoff

8:35 pm June 18, 2019

Tehran: President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday the world “praises” Iran over its standoff with Washington, and that the US had broken promises by abandoning a landmark nuclear deal that Tehran had continued to honour. “Today we are in a faceoff with America in which there is no one in the world that does not praise […]