Day: February 8, 2021

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Japan navy submarine, Hong Kong ship collide off Japan coast

11:27 pm February 8, 2021

Tokyo: A Japanese navy submarine and a commercial ship collided off Japan’s southern coast on Monday, causing minor injuries to three crew members of the submarine and damage to its mast, defense officials said. The submarine Soryu was in the process of surfacing about 27 nautical miles (50 kilometers) south of Cape Ashizuri on Japan’s southwestern island of Shikoku when it collided with […]

Greek PM accused of flaunting lockdown rules

11:23 pm February 8, 2021

Athens: Greece’s left-wing opposition leader has accused the country’s prime minister of showing contempt for lockdown rules after attending a large outdoor lunch gathering. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on a weekend visit to the Greek island of Ikaria attended an outdoor lunch hosted by a local lawmaker. A video of the event posted on social media showed at least 25 people […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Swachh Bharat Mission a priority, will ensure toilets for eveyone: UP minister

11:19 pm February 8, 2021

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Panchayati Raj Minister Bhupendra Chaudhary on Monday said the Swachh Bharat Mission is a priority for the state government and the construction of community toilets will ensure that no one is deprived of the basic facility. He also claimed that the work carried out by his department in the past four years of the BJP rule in the […]

IMD warns cold wave in 9 Odisha districts, Phulbani coldest at 7.5 degree Celsius

9:10 pm February 8, 2021

Bhubaneswar: Phulbani in Odisha’s Kandhamal district was the coldest place in the state at 7.5degree Celsius on Monday even as the IMD forecast said nine districts would experience cold wave in the next 24 hours. The districts which would experience cold wave conditions in next 24 hours are Sundargarh, Jharsuguda,Deogarh, Keonjhar, Kandhamal, Bolangir, Kalahandi and […]

No proposal for JNU name change: Pokhriyal

8:52 pm February 8, 2021

New Delhi: There is no proposal for changing the name of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said on Monday. BJP general secretary C T Ravi had proposed last year a name change of the JNU after Swami Vivekananda. ”No sir,” Nishank said in response to a question in the Lok Sabha whether the government had any proposal for changing […]