Day: September 18, 2019

Kerala to host global meet on trends in tourism studies

Kerala to host homestay & rural tourism meet

6:21 pm September 18, 2019

Thiruvananthapuram: About 300 homestay providers from 12 states and 600 tour operators, travel agents and agencies are expected to take part in the third edition of the Homestays and Rural Tourism Travel meet to be held in Kochi from September 27. The three-day meet is being organised by the Kerala Homestay and Tourism Society (Kerala […]

Maoists’ arrest: AP announces Rs 8 lakh reward for Maha ATS

2:47 pm September 18, 2019

Mumbai: The Andhra Pradesh government has announced a reward of Rs 8 lakh for the Maharashtra Anti- Terrorism Squad (ATS) team which arrested seven Maoists last year, an official said on Wednesday. The state ATS in January last year raided some eastern suburbs here and arrested seven Maoists of the Golden Corridor Committee, which was […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Pak targets border outposts in Samba-Kathua sector

2:11 pm September 18, 2019

Jammu: Pakistan Rangers on Wednesday opened fire on border out posts (BoPs) along the International Border in Samba-Kathua sector of Jammu and Kashmir, a senior BSF officer said. The Rangers fired from small arms on BoPs in Hirangar and Samba sectors from 0900 hours to 1100 hours, the officer told a news agency. BSF troops […]

Parents reunite with missing son after tracing him on TV show

2:01 pm September 18, 2019

Kolkata: A television programme has helped reunite a mentally-challenged teenager with his parents over two-and-a-half years after he had gone missing. Family members of the 13-year-old boy were watching the news bulletin on ‘Doordarshan Kolkata’, when they spotted their ward among the inmates of a home for mentally ill persons, in Nadia district of West […]

‘One of world’s oldest bird species discovered’

1:16 pm September 18, 2019

Melbourne: Scientists have discovered fossils of one of the world’s oldest bird species in New Zealand that lived about 62 million years ago, soon after the dinosaurs died. Bony-toothed birds (Pelagornithids), an ancient family of huge seafaring birds, were thought to have evolved in the Northern Hemisphere — but that theory has been upended by […]