New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Sunday, expressed grief over the demise of Vimalendra Mohan Pratap Mishra, member of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust and head of the Ayodhya royal family, popularly known as Raj Sadan Ayodhya.
New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) The plight of religious minorities in Pakistan is once again under sharp focus, as fresh cases of abductions and forced conversions of Christian and Hindu girls highlight what rights groups call a "systematic crisis".
Islamabad, Aug 24 (IANS) Devastation in Buner and across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where hundreds of people lost their lives and entire villages were destroyed, cannot be attributed solely to torrential rain but arises from a system that ignores science, violates its own rules, and consistently fails to hold violators accountable, a report has said.
New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) BJP national spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari on Sunday launched a sharp attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav, saying the former Bihar deputy CM went as far as declaring the Congress MP as the INDIA bloc’s prime ministerial face while the LoP Lok Sabha himself did not commit to making the RJD leader the chief ministerial face.
New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) Government-owned power giant NTPC Ltd will kick off its foray into nuclear power with the laying of the foundation stone for the construction of a 2,800 megawatt (MW) nuclear power plant at Banswara in Rajasthan next month, the company’s Chairman and Managing Director Gurdeep Singh said here on Sunday.
Islamabad, Aug 24 (IANS) The Auditor General of Pakistan's (AGP) latest report is a charge sheet against the weak economic and fiscal governance of the state, with the scale of mismanagement and expenditure lapses of (Pakistani) Rs 375 trillion mentioned in the report is mindboggling, local media reports said.
New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) Nearly 45 crore Indians are losing close to Rs 20,000 crore every year to real-money online games, according to government estimates.
Stockholm, Aug 24 (IANS) The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) dependence on digital governance and data manipulation has transformed into a means of transnational repression, broadening its authoritarian influence well beyond its territory, a report has said. Experts, whistleblowers and human rights groups have termed the CCP's use of data as a form of "repression without borders".
Patna, Aug 24 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday launched a scathing critique of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav, the duo leading the charge against Nitish Kumar government on Bihar's electoral turf, and accused them of dishing out false claims and lies on a daily basis.
Karachi, Aug 24 (IANS) The recent torrential rains have once again exposed the chaotic and fragmented governance of Karachi, with the widespread flooding reviving the confusion on which agency or municipal body is responsible for basic services, further causing anger among people and leading to debates regarding how the city is governed, as per a report.
