Day: September 25, 2019

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Chinese relatives marry, divorce 23 times in home scheme

9:10 pm September 25, 2019

Beijing: Eleven Chinese relatives married and divorced each other 23 times within a month to obtain apartments given out by the state, Chinese media reported. The cunning family came up with the scheme after officials offered 40-square-metre apartments to residents living in an area where homes were demolished, as part of a development project in […]

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

Memo: Trump prodded Ukraine leader on Biden claims

8:55 pm September 25, 2019

Washington : President Donald Trump repeatedly prodded Ukraine’s new leader to work with Rudy Giuliani and the U.S. attorney general to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden, according to a rough transcript summarizing the call released Wednesday. In the call, Trump raised unsubstantiated allegations that Biden sought to interfere with a Ukrainian prosecutor’s investigation of […]

Old couple found dead at home in UP's Banda

Elderly couple re-unite after 36 years at old age home in Kerala

8:53 pm September 25, 2019

Kodungallor (Ker) : Separated for 36 years, a couple aged over 80 years reunited at an old age home in their native Kerala with both recognising each other instantly despite failing eyesight, triggering celebrations. By sheer chance, Saidu (90) and Subhadra (82), who got married 65 years ago and lost contact with each other since […]

Rocket carrying Emirati, Russian, American blasts off for ISS

8:46 pm September 25, 2019

Baikonur: A rocket blasted off from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan on Wednesday with an Emirati on board who will be the first Arab on the International Space Station. The Soyuz rocket carrying the three-member crew — including Hazzaa al-Mansoori of the United Arab Emirates — blasted off as scheduled at 1357 GMT. Mansoori, […]

No proposal for JNU name change: Pokhriyal

Expedite recruitment process: HRD Ministry tells NITs

8:36 pm September 25, 2019

New Delhi: The HRD Ministry on Wednesday directed the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) to expedite the recruitment process after the issue of faculty shortage was raised before it. Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ issued the directive during a council meeting of the National Institute of Technology, Science Education and Research (NITSER), which was […]