Day: November 27, 2019

Former Navy chief Sushil Kumar no more

8:45 pm November 27, 2019

New Delhi: Former Navy Chief Admiral (retd) Sushil Kumar died at a military hospital on Wednesday morning following a brief illness, his family said. He was 79. Kumar was Navy Chief from 1998-2001. He died around 3:30 AM at the Army Research and Referral hospital, the family said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled his demise, […]

Snowfall, rain add to chill in Uttarakhand

8:42 pm November 27, 2019

Dehradun: Heavy snowfall in the upper Himalayan region of Uttarakhand and rain in the plains added to chill across the state on Wednesday. Higher reaches of the mountains in both Kumaon and Garhwal regions of the state including Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri, Yamunotri, Auli, Hemkund Sahib and Munsyari received heavy snowfall and the peaks became covered […]

China says it has met its carbon reduction goal early

8:38 pm November 27, 2019

Beijing: China has realised its 2020 target for reducing carbon emissions ahead of schedule, the ecology and environment ministry reported Wednesday. The ministry said China’s CO2 emissions per unit of GDP had fallen last year by 4 per cent from a year earlier to stand at 45.8 per cent less than in 2005. Vice Minister […]

Pak security agency foils terror plot; arrests 3 AQIS militants

8:35 pm November 27, 2019

Lahore: Pakistan’s counter-terrorism agency on Wednesday said it foiled a plot to target the offices of an intelligence agency and sensitive installations in the south of Punjab province and arrested three terrorists of Al-Qaeda in Indian Sub-Continent (AQIS). In a statement, the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Punjab Police said its unit in Dera Ghazi […]

Sonia, Mamata, Kejriwal, Stalin among invitees for Uddhav Thackeray’s swearing-in as CM

7:38 pm November 27, 2019

Mumbai: Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, and DMK president have been invited for the swearing-in ceremony of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray as Maharashtra Chief Minister. Speaking about the invitations given to various political leaders, Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde said that the party has invited […]