Month: March 2024

Prachanda forms new Cabinet after leaving Nepali Congress

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Prachanda forms new Cabinet after leaving Nepali Congress

Two days after breaking the one-year-old alliance with the Nepali Congress, Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ on Wednesday formed a new Cabinet by inducting Ministers from the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), his new main coalition partner, and two other parties. In a sudden move, Prachanda on Monday broke up with the…

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Centre Approves 34 New Dhruv Helicopters For Army, Indian Coast Guard

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Centre Approves 34 New Dhruv Helicopters For Army, Indian Coast Guard

The helicopters would be manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Security has cleared a proposal for 34 new Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Dhruv choppers, of which nine will be inducted in the Indian Coast Guard while 25 of them will go to the Indian Army. The helicopters would be manufactured…

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Ahead Of Lok Sabha Polls, Centre Extends Ujjwala Subsidy Till March 2025

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Ahead Of Lok Sabha Polls, Centre Extends Ujjwala Subsidy Till March 2025

All Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) beneficiaries are eligible for this targeted subsidy. New Delhi: The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the extension of a targeted subsidy of Rs 300 per 14.2 kg cylinder for up to 12 refills per year for the beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY)…

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US Soldier Arrested For Selling Sensitive Military Secrets To China

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US Soldier Arrested For Selling Sensitive Military Secrets To China

US Army intelligence analyst arrested for allegedly supplying sensitive military info to China. Washington: A US Army intelligence analyst was arrested on Thursday for allegedly providing national defense information to China. Sergeant Korbein Schultz, who held a top-secret security clearance, was taken into custody at Fort Campbell, a military base on the Kentucky-Tennessee border, the…

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Asif Ali Zardari Set To Be Elected As New Pak President: Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif

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Asif Ali Zardari Set To Be Elected As New Pak President: Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif

Asif Ali Zardari is frontrunner for Pakistan presidential election that will be hold tomorrow. Islamabad: Asserting that Asif Ali Zardari is set to be elected as the next President of Pakistan, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that there will be strong coordination between them, according to ARY News. Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman and former…

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Hong Kong court affirms landmark sedition conviction for pro-democracy activist

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Hong Kong court affirms landmark sedition conviction for pro-democracy activist

Tam Tak-chi, one of the 47 pro-democracy Hong Kong activists. File | Photo Credit: AP Criticizing laws or chanting anti-government slogans can be enough to jail someone for sedition in Hong Kong, an appeal court ruled Thursday in a landmark case brought under a colonial-era law increasingly used to crush dissent. Hong Kong’s Court of…

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10 Arrested For Selling Fake Medicines In Delhi: Cops

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10 Arrested For Selling Fake Medicines In Delhi: Cops

These tablets were transported from Mandi to Haryana and later, to Delhi, police said. (Representational) New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Thursday claimed to have arrested 10 people allegedly involved in the manufacture and sale of fake medicines used as painkillers and antibiotics among others in the National Capital Region. Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime)…

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Pakistan gets first Sikh minister in Punjab province

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Pakistan gets first Sikh minister in Punjab province

Sardar Ramesh Singh Arora, an influential minority leader, who has been sworn-in as a provincial minister in Pakistan, making him the first Sikh to occupy a ministerial position in post-partition Punjab. | Photo Credit: PTI Sardar Ramesh Singh Arora, an influential minority leader, has been sworn in as a provincial minister, making him the first…

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Russia’s FSB says it shoots dead a man planning an ‘act of terrorism’ – RIA

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Russia’s FSB says it shoots dead a man planning an ‘act of terrorism’ – RIA

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday that it had shot dead a Belarusian man who had been planning “an act of terrorism” on behalf of Ukraine in the northern Russian region of Karelia, the RIA state news agency reported. The FSB, the main successor agency to the Soviet-era KGB, said it had “seized…

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Ukraien President Volodymyr Zelensky On Sweden Joining NATO

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Ukraien President Volodymyr Zelensky On Sweden Joining NATO

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday welcomed Sweden’s accession to NATO. Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday welcomed Sweden’s accession to NATO, which his own country is hoping to join after the war ends. The Swedish move was spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and turned the page on two centuries of non-alignment. “Today,…

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