No US or Iraqi personnel were killed in Iranian missile attacks on two US bases in Iraq on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump said. In a brief address, he also said that Iran “appears to be standing down” after it targeted the Irbil and Al Asad base housing US forces in retaliation for assassination of top Iranian General Qasem Soleimani last week. “No Americans were harmed in the attack and there was only minimal damage to the targeted sites,” he said. Trump also said US forces are “prepared for anything,” but for now, “Iran appears to be standing down, which…
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will now embark on a five-day Ganga Yatra from January 27. The Chief Minister was earlier scheduled to undertake the Yatra in the first week of January but the same was postponed due to the unavoidable circumstances, said a government source. According to the government spokesman, the Chief Minister will start the Yatra from district Bijnor on January 27 after addressing a public meeting. The Governor will also be present on the occasion. The Chief Minister will make his first night halt in Hastinapur and will perform the Ganga ‘aarti’ in Makhdoompur. The Yatra…
In a first, the February 8 Delhi Assembly polls will have 11 Artificial Intelligence (AI) equipped polling constituencies, one from each district in the national capital, the Delhi Election Commission said on Tuesday, adding that QR code enabled digital photo voter slips will save a lot of time which goes in finding out voters’ names in the electoral rolls. Speaking to the media, Ranbir Singh, Delhi’s Chief Electoral Officer, said, “Voters will be provided with digital photo voter slips for the first time. The slips will have QR code. Earlier, a lot of time was wasted in finding out voters’…
India captain Virat Kohli has hinted Karnataka pacer Prasidh Krishna could be a “surprise package” going into the World T20 slated to be held in Australia later this year. “You’ll have to figure out who are the people that are very similar in their bowling skills, and you pick the senior one. I think one guy will be a surprise package going to Australia. Someone who can bowl with pace and has bounce,” Kohli said after India’s seven-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the second T20I on Tuesday. “Prasidh Krishna has done well in the domestic arena. It is a…
Weightlifter Sarbjeet Kaur has been slapped with a four-year ban for doping by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA). The sample of Sarbjeet, who won the 71kg event at the women’s national weightlifting championships in February last year, was collected during 34th Women Senior National Weightlifting Championship held at Vishakhapatnam. “The Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel has found weightlifter Sarbjeet Kaur guilty of anti-doping rule violation. She has been imposed a penalty of ineligibility for a period of four years. Kaur was tested positive earlier following intake of prohibited non specified substance,” NADA said in a statement. According to NADA, her sample had…
India skipper Virat Kohli has added yet another feather to his cap by becoming the fastest player to score 1,000 runs in T20I cricket as a captain. Kohli played an unbeaten knock of 30 during India’s seven-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the second T20I of the ongoing three-match series on Tuesday evening. Kohli achieved the milestone of scoring 1,000 runs as captain in his 30th T20I inning. He is the second Indian and sixth overall after MS Dhoni to have achieved the feat. Dhoni had scored 1112 runs in 62 T20I games as captain. Faf du Plessis (1273 runs…
Just a few hours after the registration process for the new semester was made functional again, Jawaharlal Nehru University witnessed over 800 registrations, taking the total number of registrations to over 3,500. Informing about the state of registration, JNU Vice Chancellor Jagadesh Kumar Mamidala tweeted on Tuesday, “Today after making JNU communication and information systems functional, the number of students who have paid the fees for winter semester registration rose to 3552.” In an attempt to restrict students from getting registered for the new semester, some students of the varsity had allegedly barged into the room used to provide WiFi…
A day after saying communists “deserve” to be beaten up, West Bengal BJP unit Chief Dilip Ghosh on Tuesday waded into controversy yet again by calling the attack on JNU students a “staged” incident and claiming it was yet not proved whether JNSU president Aishe Ghosh had real blood or only colour on her head. “It has now come to light that the JNU incident is staged,” Ghosh told mediapersons, alleging it was a ‘conspiracy’ to get wind into the sail of the movement (against new citizenship law). “How could outsiders enter the university with faces covered, and zero in…
Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar has welcomed the court decision in the Nirbhaya case. “Justice delivered to #Nirbhaya,” Javedkar tweeted. “A Delhi Court’s verdict to execute 4 convicts will empower women and strengthen people’s faith on judiciary”. #nirbhayaverdict,” the Minister said. The court on Tuesday issued death warrants to all the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case and set 7 a.m. on January 22 for execution at Delhi’s Tihar Jail. The court has given 14 days for legal recourse, which included filing of mercy plea to the President. Patiala House Court Additional Sessions…
A Delhi court on Tuesday issued death warrants against all four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case with the convicts to be hanged on January 22. Patiala House Court Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora while issuing the death warrants directed the convicts to be hanged on January 22 at 7 a.m. at Delhi’s Tihar Jail. The four convicts are Pawan Gupta, Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur. The convicts’ lawyers have said that they will move a curative petition in the Supreme Court. The convicts can also submit a mercy petition to the President. A…