Day: August 2, 2019

Another bridge connecting India-Nepal inaugurated

7:27 pm August 2, 2019

Pithoragarh (Uttarakhand): A footbridge over the Kali river connecting India and Nepal was inaugurated on Friday at the border village of Daura in Pithoragarh district as a goodwill gesture between the two countries. The 200-metre suspension bridge was inaugurated jointly by BJP MLA from Didihat constituency Bishan Singh Chufal and officials from Nepal in the […]

SC junks PIL to ensure maximum voting in polls

7:13 pm August 2, 2019

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday junked a PIL seeking directions to the Centre and the Election Commission to frame guidelines to ensure that more citizens cast their votes in polls. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi dismissed the plea filed in 2014 which had also sought directions for ensuring that maximum number […]

RSS welcomes SC order of daily hearing in Ayodhya case

7:10 pm August 2, 2019

Nagpur: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Friday welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to hold day- to-day hearing of Ayodhya dispute, expressing hope that legal obstacles in the way of construction of Ram temple will be removed soon. The apex court, earlier in the day, ordered day-to-day hearing from August 6 of the politically sensitive Ram […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

800 asylum seekers returned to wait in Mexican border city

7:08 pm August 2, 2019

Matamoros (Mexico): The United States government has sent about 800 mostly Central American and Cuban migrants back to this northern Mexico border city since expanding its controversial “remain in Mexico” program to the easternmost point on the shared border two weeks ago, Mexican authorities say. They are among nearly 3,000 people with pending U.S. immigration […]

WCD Ministry celebrates World Breastfeeding Week

6:53 pm August 2, 2019

New Delhi: The Union Women and Child Development Ministry is celebrating the World Breastfeeding Week with a focus on “protection, promotion and support” of breastfeeding that it hopes will help in breaking the vicious cycle of malnutrition. The WCD Ministry, in a statement, said this nutrition intervention will also aid the government to achieve the […]