Day: September 14, 2019

Over 2,700 gifts to PM Modi on auction from Saturday

2:40 pm September 14, 2019

New Delhi: Union Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel on Saturday inaugurated an exhibition-cum-e-auction of gifts received by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the last one year to raise funds for the Centre’s Namami Gange Project. More than 2,700 mementos, including shawls, pagris and jackets, at the National Gallery of Modern Art here will be auctioned […]

Terror hideout busted in J-K's Poonch; arms, ammo seized

Pakistani troops shell security posts, villages along LoC in JK’s Poonch

2:35 pm September 14, 2019

Jammu: Pakistani troops engaged in heavy firing and mortar shelling on forward posts and villages along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday in violation of the ceasefire, officials said. The firing and mortar shelling from across the border started in Balakote and Mankote areas around 10 am, […]

Man shot dead in Ludhiana shopping mall

2:30 pm September 14, 2019

Ludhiana: A 42-year-old man was shot dead when an unidentified person opened fire at him following an altercation in a shopping mall here, police said on Saturday. Daljit Singh succumbed to his injuries in a hospital, they said. The incident took place at a restaurant in the mall on Friday night when an argument broke […]

Will Trump's mishandling of records leave a hole in history?

Trump-Biden matchup promises epic presidential gaffes contest

2:26 pm September 14, 2019

Washington: One’s a septuagenarian male politician whose verbal gaffes raise doubts over his fitness for office. The other is a septuagenarian male politician who makes so many slip-ups that the public has almost stopped taking notice. Welcome to Joe Biden vs Donald Trump, the prospective 2020 match-up that, if nothing else, guarantees a lot of […]

US fines Japan Airlines USD 300,000 over long flight delays

2:19 pm September 14, 2019

Washington: The US government is fining Japan Airlines USD 300,000 for delays that trapped passengers on two grounded planes for hours. Under an agreement with the Transportation Department, the airline gets credit for USD 60,000 spent compensating passengers, and USD 120,000 will be waived if the airline avoids similar incidents for one year. The department […]