Jaipur/Bhopal/Ahmedabad: 50 people were killed in the states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat along with Maharashtra in lighting strike as well as torrential rains and thunderstorms. The storms caused considerable damages to agriculture and property. The private weather bureau Skymet had already warned in this regard. The weather department has predicted rains with cyclone, […]
New Delhi: Finance Minister Piyush Goyal presented the interim budget for 2019 which focused on increasing the income limit for tax exemption to five lakh rupees and on the development of farmers, unorganised workers, health and infrastructure. A whopping amount of more than three lakh crore rupees for defence and more than one lakh crore […]
Johannesburg: The chief of the political group ‘Black First Land First’ issued an aggressive threat ‘You kill one of us we will kill five of you. We’ll kill their women; we’ll kill their children, we’ll kill anything we find in our way.’ Strong reactions have been received from all over the world apart from South […]
Abuja: While there are indications of the counter-terrorism action intensifying in the African continent, the attacks by the terrorist organisations in the region have also been observed to have increased. In the last few days, Boko Haram attacks in the Borno State of Nigeria claimed 60 lives. The victims include 16 farmers and more than […]
Theodore Herzl passionately set about the mission of propagating Zionism. Having established the ‘Zionist Organization’, he went on in August 1897, to organize the ‘First Zionist Congress’ at Basel in Switzerland. More than two hundred invitees from various countries attended the Congress apart from representatives of some of the leading news agencies of the world. […]
New Delhi: “We have heard song ‘Dakiya dak laya’. From now, along with dakiya dak laaya, dakiya bank bhi laaya. Many thought technology had threatened the existence of the postal department and that postmen would lose their livelihood. The growing pace of technology in communication threw a challenge. We used technology as a base to […]
Jerusalem: 180 rocket attacks were launched on Israel between Wednesday night and Thursday early morning from the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian extremist organisation Hamas, who is in control of the Gaza Strip had launched these attacks and has also accepted the responsibility for the attacks. Out of the 180 rockets fired, 30 were intercepted by […]
Beijing: China has retaliated to the US President, Donald Trump’s threat of imposing additional taxes of 25% on goods imported from China worth $200 billion. China has retaliated with a warning that taxes varying between 5% and 25% will be imposed on goods worth $60 billion imported from the United States. This warning by China […]
Washington/Brussels: ‘European Union (EU) is as bad as China. What Europe is doing to the United States is horrible. Europe wants to sell their Mercedes in the United States, but the United States cannot sell its cars in Europe. Europe does not even want agricultural products from the United States. At the same time, the […]
Washington/Beijing: Warning that the United States will not tolerate China or any other country taking undue advantage in trade, US President Donald Trump threatened to impose taxes on import of goods worth $ 200 billion from China. Only last week President Trump had announced imposition of a 25% tax on imports of goods from China […]