Day: July 17, 2019

Fresh batch of 4,584 pilgrims leaves Jammu for Amarnath

2:40 pm July 17, 2019

Jammu: The 16th batch comprising of 4,584 pilgrims, including 1,152 women and 95 seers, Wednesday left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here to offer their prayers at the cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said. The pilgrims, including 28 children, left in a convoy of 192 vehicles under tight security arrangements in […]

BMC to set up desalination plant to solve Mumbai's water woes

This low-cost filter removes arsenic, iron from water

2:37 pm July 17, 2019

New Delhi: Researchers have developed a simple and cost-effective filtration system that may help reduce the health burden caused by arsenic and iron contaminated groundwater. Arsiron Nilogon, developed by a team led by Robin Kumar Dutta from Tezpur University in Assam, filters out 99.9 per cent of the arsenic contamination from the groundwater to make […]

Fire in SBI building, no casualty

2:35 pm July 17, 2019

New Delhi: A fire broke out on the sixth floor of the State Bank of India (SBI) building on Sansad Marg here on Wednesday, Delhi Fire Services officials said. No injury was reported, they added. The fire department was alerted about the blaze at 8.10 am, following which seven fire tenders were rushed to the […]

BJP takes early lead in Karnataka Assembly bypolls

SC verdict moral victory for rebel MLAs: Yeddyurappa

2:31 pm July 17, 2019

Bengaluru: Karnataka BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa Wednesday welcomed the Supreme court order on the political crisis, asserting that it was a “moral victory” for the rebel MLAs, whose resignations have pushed the ruling Congress-JDS coalition to the brink of collapse. Yeddyurappa underlined that the political parties cannot issue a whip to the 15 rebel […]

Pakistan provides consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav

ICJ to deliver verdict in Kulbhushan Jadhav case

2:30 pm July 17, 2019

The Hague: The International Court of Justice will deliver on Wednesday its verdict in a case relating to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, whose death sentence by a Pakistani military court based on an “extracted confession” has been questioned by India. Jadhav, 49, a retired Indian Navy officer, was sentenced to death by the Pakistani military […]

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