Jammu, Sep 18 (IANS) A Border Security Force (BSF) trooper was killed on Tuesday in ceasefire violation by Pakistan Rangers in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district.Police said the Rangers breached the 2003 truce on the international border in Ramgarh sector when some BSF personnel were clearing bushes on the Indian side.Head Constable Narinder Singh of BSF's 176 Battalion was injured...
Washington/Beijing, Sep 18 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has stepped up his trade battle with China by slapping 10 per cent tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, prompting Beijing to retaliate by imposing duties on American products worth $60 billion.The Chinese Commerce Ministry said the new wave of tariffs would go into effect on September 24 -- the...
Chandigarh, Sep 18 (IANS) The opposition SAD and BJP on Tuesday demanded the dismissal of the Congress government in Punjab, it of colluding with radicals to destabilise peace in the state.A joint delegation of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and BJP leaders met Governor V.P. Singh Badnore and sought the state government's dismissal for what they said was "violating the...
Dubai, Sep 18 (IANS) Opener Shikhar Dhawan (127) smashed a brilliant century to set a perfect platform but some poor batting from the middle-order saw India posting 285/7 runs against Hong Kong in Group A One-Day International (ODI) match of the Asia Cup here on Tuesday.At one point India 240/2 in 40 overs but after the fall of Dhawan, who...
Tamanna Bhatia is a well-known actress and model of Indian film industry. She got huge recognition in film industry due to her work in South Indian Movies. At the age of fifteen, she was seen in Bollywood movie named ‘Chand Sa Roshan Chehra’ as a child artist . She has worked mainly in South Indian films, but she debuted in Bollywood with Himmatwala opposite...
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said that it had raided 11 places in Delhi and Mumbai in connection with an international hawala racket involving Rs 700 crore and seized Rs 29 lakh.The financial probe agency said that searches were carried out at 11 premises of Pankaj Kapur and his associates in Delhi and Mumbai under...
Mumbai, Sep 18 (IANS) Hours after an official of securities market regulator SEBI said that ICICI Bank has filed for settlement through consent mechanism, the private lender denied filing any such application.The company, however, said that it has submitted its response to the show cause notice issued by SEBI."We have submitted our response to the show cause notice issued by...
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday inspected the under-construction integrated campus of the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) in the national capital, an official said.The campus is coming up in Surajmal Vihar of east Delhi.Sisodia directed officers and engineers responsible for the project to complete it before the stipulated date of completion,...
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) Often under attack for its "exclusionary" agenda, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday said there will be no "Hindu rashtra" without Muslims in India and Hindutva encompasses fraternity and unity in diversity.Expounding on the Hindutva concept in his second of the three-day lecture series, he said that Hindutva was the basic thought of all communities...
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) In an interim order, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed that no coercive steps be taken against the sale of 328 fixed dose combination (FDC) drugs that were banned by the government last week but are still available in the market.The order came on pleas filed by different pharma companies to challenge a Ministry...
