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Thursday, Jun 21st 2018
Thursday, Jun 21st 2018
The People Democratic Party's (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti submitted her resignation as Jammu and Kashmir chief minister to state governor N N Vohra. Mehbooba's move came shortly after the BJP announced it was pulling out of its alliance with the PDP in Jammu and Kashmir.
Senegal got Africa's first win of the World Cup with a 2-1 victory over Poland in Moscow on Tuesday. The team was helped by two fluky goals: a deflection, and a score by a player who was apparently unnoticed by the Poland defense.
There is a huge potential for India and Greece to collaborate in areas like infrastructure, supply chain, energy and services, President Ram Nath Kovind has said as he highlighted investment opportunities in India which is striving to become a USD 5 trillion economy and the world's third largest consumer market by 2025.
Speaking at an India China event in the capital, Chinese ambassador to India Luo Zhaohui suggested on Monday that China, India and Pakistan have a trilateral meet on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meetings. He also said India and China cannot afford another Doklam, referring to the standoff last year between troops of the two countries at the trijunction with Bhutan.
World Cup host Russia are virtually in the round of 16 after registering their second successive win in the tournament. Russia outclassed Mohamed Salah's Egypt 3-1 i...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the world expects India to become a five trillion-dollar economy soon. "The world expects India to become a five trillion dollar ec...
More than 3.2 billion people, or 2 in every 5 people, are impacted by land degradation today and up to 143 million people could move within their countries by 2050 to esc...
by : FnF Correspondent
The Aam Aadmi Party will campaign for the Bharatiya Janata Party in next year's parliamentary elections if it ensured Delhi got statehood, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said, just before the ass...
by : FnF Correspondent
Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore says India has the potential to play in the FIFA World Cup in near future but the country can reach that standard only if opportunities are created for the p...
by : FnF Desk
New, more advanced and safe fuel will be reloaded into the two running reactors of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project or KNPP and also into the subsequent units being built in Tamil Nadu with the te...
by : FnF Desk
Contrary to popular perception, the core issue to be resolved at the June 12 summit - and any subsequent meetings - between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is not North K...
by : Kriti
The Deputy High Commissioner of Pakistan to India was summoned today and a strong protest was made against Government of Pakistan's so-called "Gilgit Baltistan Order 2018”....
by : FnF Desk
India was the only country on Sunday not to endorse a high-profile Chinese project in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) — the only discordant note in the 17-page joint document released at the end of ...
by : FnF Desk
Japan registered a comfortable 2-1 win against 10-man Colombia in their opening Group H encounter of the tournament. Shinji Kagawa and Yuya Osako scored in the sixth and 72nd minute respectively to he...
by : FnF Correspondent
FIFA World Cup is one of the biggest sporting events in the world. The opening match will be between hosts Russia and Saudi Arabia on June 14, which will start at 8:30 PM (IST). Throughout the group s...
by : FnF Desk
Harry Kane struck in the stoppage time to help England edge Tunisia 2-1 in a Group G fixture of the FIFA World Cup 2018 fixture. The first-half saw a thrilling contest after Ferjani Sassi cut out a sl...
by : Dr Mukul Kapoor
Education is a process of facilitating learning, acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. A significant portion of training imparted in our country is wasteful. This bitter, hars...
by : FnF Desk
Scientists discovered grains called GEMS (glass with embedded metal and sulfides), which are believed to originate from comets, might be a dusty relic from before the formation of our solar system. Th...
by : FnF Correspondent
FIFA World Cup is one of the biggest sporting events in the world. The opening match will be between hosts Russia and Saudi Arabia on June 14, which will start at 8:30 PM (IST). Throughout the group s...
by : Radhika Bhirani
"Parmanu - The Story of Pokhran" is on India's 1998 nuclear tests. The subjects may seem fit for documentaries, but actor John Abraham - the common factor as the producer of the films - says his ...
by : Amulya Ganguli
At the root of the controversy over the release of the Hindi feature film "Padmavati" is, first, the saffron brotherhood's interpretation of history with a pronounced anti-Muslim bias and, second...
by : FnF Correspondent
If the President secretariat works properly and not stuck about so called newly adopted protocol, the National Film Awards ceremony 2018 may becomes a big hit and controversy may be avoided. Many regi...
by : FnF Desk
The Nipah virus is a zoonotic disease that is naturally transmitted from vertebrate animals to humans, while human-to-human transmission has also been documented. Nipah virus can be transmitted by inf...
by : Dr Mukul Kapoor
Indian doctors have occupied the pride of place in the medical fraternity of the western world and are acknowledged as respected and influential clinicians. Indian doctors were able to reach such leve...
by : Shreya Ganguly
In tobacco cigarette, there is combustion, a burning of an organic material that generates temperatures up to 900 degree Celsius. Chronic exposure to this tends to thicken blood vessels, making them w...
by : Priti Prakash
Its just few months before the 2019 general elections will be declared. Political parties have sound...
by : Satya Narayan Sahu
A very few in late fifties have grand mothers and I had and her name was Shrimati Parvati Sahu. She ...
by : Rajeshwar Singal
This may sound like a dilemma, but it is not far from truth. Conduct Rules are meant to govern condu...
by : Sunita Narain
The idea of secularism is this very idea of India which respects the equality of all. Of course, wit...
by : Ravi Kishore
Today every one is talking about judicial accountability i.e. how the whole system of judiciary is t...
