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  • 80 students get scholarship package from Tata Trust
    Our Correspondent Kohima | June 21   The Semoma Students Welfare Board Trust (SSWBT) in collaboration with Sir Dorabji Tata Trust today gave stipend and scholarship package to 80 students from diff
    / 21st June 2017
  • Thousands join Modi, hit the mat for International Yoga Day
    Lucknow, June 21 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi spent some 20 minutes out in drizzle here on Wednesday doing yogic 'asanas' as lakhs of enthusiasts in various states stretched, twisted their bodies and pe
    / 21st June 2017
  • No relief for Justice Karnan as SC declines to hear bail plea
    New Delhi, June 21 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain the plea for grant of bail and suspension of six-month jail term it awarded to former Calcutta High Court judge C.S. Karnan for his
    / 21st June 2017
  • Women's hockey squad named for HWL Semi Final
    New Delhi, June 21 (IANS): Hockey India (HI) on Wednesday announced an 18-member womens squad for the Hockey World League (HWL) Semi Final, to be held between July 8 to 23 in Johannesburg.   The team
    / 21st June 2017
  • ICC thinking of scrapping Champions Trophy
    New Delhi, June 21 (IANS): Pakistan may not get a chance to defend their Champions Trophy title with the International Cricket Council (ICC) debating the prospect of replacing the tournament with two expanded W
    / 21st June 2017
  • Pakistan's participation in Asian Athletics in doubt
    NEW DELHI, JUNE 21 (REUTERS): Pakistan's participation in the Asian Athletics Championships, to be held in Bhubaneswar from July 6-9, remained uncertain as the government was yet to clear the visas of its conti
    / 21st June 2017
  • Lewis Hamilton determined to deliver in Baku
    LONDON, JUNE 21 (REUTERS): Azerbaijan, a new race last year, is the only grand prix on Formula One's current calendar that Lewis Hamilton has yet to win and the Briton heads back to Baku determined to deliver t
    / 21st June 2017
  • Saudi king empowers young reformer son in succession shake-up
    DUBAI, June 21 (Reuters): Saudi Arabias King Salman made his son next in line to the throne on Wednesday, handing the 31-year-old sweeping powers as the kingdom seeks radical overhaul of its oil-dependent econo
    / 21st June 2017
  • Our Land. Our Home. Our Future
    Monique Barbut Inter Press Service   We all have dreams. For most of us, those dreams are often quite simple. They are common to individuals and communities all around the world. People just wan
    / 21st June 2017
  • Oil firms could waste trillions if climate targets reached: report
    LONDON, June 21 (Reuters): Energy giants including Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell risk wasting more than a third of their budgets on projects that will not be needed if climate targets are to be met, a think
    / 21st June 2017
  • US, China meet on NKorea after Trump points to failed Chinese effort
    WASHINGTON, june 21 (Reuters): Top diplomats and defense chiefs from the United States and China began a day of talks in Washington on Wednesday looking for ways to press North Korea to give up its nuclear and
    / 21st June 2017
  • Rajdhani, Shatabdi trains set for revamp
    New Delhi, June 21 (IANS): They are the premium trains in India. Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express were started to move people who could afford to pay more for a somewhat luxurious travel.   But after ye
    / 21st June 2017
  • Philippines says Islamist militants took hostages in retreat from school
    MANILA, June 21 (Reuters): The Philippine military said Islamist militants who had holed up in a primary school in the south early on Wednesday had retreated after a gunbattle with troops but were holding some
    / 21st June 2017
  • News in brief
    All states pass SGST Act, except J&K   New Delhi, June 21 (IANS): With Kerala approving the State Goods and Services Tax (SGST) Act on Wednesday, Jammu and Kashmir remains the only state yet to p
    / 21st June 2017
  • Banks can deposit banned Rs 500, Rs 1,000 notes with RBI by July 20: Govt
    New delhi, June 21 (PTI): The government has permitted banks and post offices to deposit junked Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes with the Reserve Bank by July 20.     This is the second window the g
    / 21st June 2017
  • South Sudan no longer classified as in famine - UN backed report
    JUBA/GENEVA (Reuters): South Sudan is no longer classified as being in famine, although 45,000 people in Jonglei and Unity states are expected to remain in famine-like conditions and the situation is still crit
    / 21st June 2017
  • News in brief
    2 Macron allies resign from cabinet amid funding scandal   Paris, June 21 (IANS): Two more ministers in French President Emmanuel Macrons recently-assembled cabinet on Wednesday handed in their resig
    / 21st June 2017
  • Belgian PM says country on alert, but not at maximum threat level
    BRUSSELS, June 21 (Reuters): Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said on Wednesday security forces would remain vigilant after a failed terrorist attack on a Brussels railway station, but there was no need to
    / 21st June 2017
  • Extreme heat grips Northern Hemisphere on summer solstice
    SINGAPORE, June 21 (Reuters): Extreme heat across large tracts of the Northern Hemisphere raised fears for crops in China, fuelled forest fires in Portugal and Russias Far East, forced flight cancellations in t
    / 21st June 2017
  • Investors force Uber CEO Travis Kalanick to quit 
    San Francisco, June 21 (IANS): After facing over 200 complaints from his staff, including serious allegations of sexual harassment, global ride-hailing service Uber's embattled CEO Travis Kalanick has finally s
    / 21st June 2017
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