Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday paid rich tributes to the 40 CRPF troopers martyred in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama last year, saying that “India will never forget their martyrdom”. “Tributes to the brave martyrs who lost their lives in the gruesome Pulwama attack last year. They were exceptional individuals who devoted their lives to serving and protecting our nation. India will never forget their martyrdom,” Modi tweeted. Paying homage to the 40 CRPF personnel, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said: “India will forever be grateful to our bravehearts, and their families, who made the supreme…
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Tamil superstar Vijay’s new selfie with fans has been trending on social media. The actor clicked the selfie with fans in the town of Neyveli. The selfie which has now gone viral over the past few days was clicked from the top of a vehicle. In the pic, a huge crowd can be seen in the background. Apparently, they are fans who came to watch Vijay shoot his upcoming film, “Master”. So far, much hype has been garnered about the film, and three posters have been released. The film also stars Vijay Sethupathi.
US First Lady Melania Trump, who is visiting India with her husband President Donald Trump later this month, has expressed her excitement about the forthcoming trip. In a tweet, Melania, thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the invitation, saying: “Looking forward to visiting Ahmedabad and New Delhi later this month. POTUS and I are excited for the trip and to celebrate the close ties between the USA and India.” She was responding to Prime Minister Modi’s tweet which described their visit as a “very special one” which “will go a long way in further cementing India-USA friendship”. India, he said,…
Kumar Sangakkara, current president of the custodian of cricket laws — Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), has said that the 2009 terror attack taught him a lot of lessons and made him aware about his own values and character. As the Sri Lankan team bus approached the Gaddafi Stadium on March 3, 2009 for what should have been the third morning of the second Test against Pakistan, they were attacked by 12 gunmen on the Liberty Roundabout. The attack left six policemen and two civilians dead, as well as the driver of the minibus carrying the match officials. Sangakkara, who was…
The visiting IMF mission has asked Islamabad “to reduce its trade and commerce reliance on Beijing” and look for other international options by signing free trade agreements (FTA) with other countries too, a media report said on Friday. The development comes as the mission has extended its stay in Pakistan for making more efforts to strike a consensus on the staff-level agreement as both sides so far persisted with their respective differences on “immediate measures” for reducing the revenue-expenditure gap and fixing cash bleeding energy sector, The News International said in the report. Official sources confirmed to The News International…
Indian-origin Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak was appointed UK’s new Chancellor of the Exchequer as incumbent Sajid Javid quit over differences with Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a cabinet reshuffle on Thursday following Brexit. Sunak, 39, who is married to Akshata, the daughter of Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy, was Chief Secretary to the Treasury since July 2019. His appointment comes merely four weeks before the Budget is due to be presented, the BBC reported. Those out in the reshuffle are Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith, Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom, Housing Minister Esther McVey and Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers while…
Allowing a rare peek into his personal domain on Valentines Day eve, renowned industrialist Ratan Tata revealed certain private details like how he fell in love once, and “almost got married”. It happened in Los Angeles, after college when he landed a job at an architecture firm, where he had a great time and the weather was beautiful, he had his own car and loved his job, sometime in the early 1960, when Tata was in his mid-20s. “It was in LA that I fell in love and almost got married. But at the same time, I had made the…
JNU Students Union (JNUSU) president and SFI leader Aishe Ghosh was on Thursday not given permission to hold a meeting inside Calcutta University by the authorities and had to address students outside the campus gate. There was altercation between the students and the university staff as the gate was shut a little while before Ghosh was set to address a gathering called under the platform Students Against Fascism. The authorities, however, said neither permission was sought for the meeting nor it was a convention to let outsiders to hold political programme in the campus. Ghosh, however, said permission had been…
Former TERI chief R.K. Pachauri passed away here on Thursday after a prolonged heart ailmnent. He was 79. The Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2002-15, he had seen it awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 along with former US Vice President Al Gore “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”. He was also awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2008. “Pachauri, who has been a leading voice on climate change and environment, passed away…
A rocket hit a military base housing US troops in Iraq’s oil-rich province of Kirkuk, a security source said. The attack took place on Thursday evening when the Katyusha rocket hit the K1 military base without causing casualties, the source told Xinhua news agency. Iraqi police forces searched the area where the rocket launched from, and found a 12-rocket Katyusha launcher with only one was fired on the base, the source said. The attack came 40 days after the death of Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy chief…