New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Shehla Rashid on Wednesday announced she was quitting “mainstream politics” in Jammu and Kashmir, citing the Centre’s decision to abrogate Article 370 as the reason. Meanwhile, as per sources, Kashmir’s bureaucrat-turned-independent politician, Shah Faesal, who is under house arrest in Srinagar, has also … Read more
Manchester, Oct 9 (IANS) Veteran England pacer James Anderson will train on the Etihad campus of Premier League giants Manchester City in his bid to recover from a calf injury and be fit in time for the South Africa tour starting mid-December. Anderson could bowl only four overs against Australia in the first Ashes Test … Read more
Lahore, Oct 9 (IANS) Playing sans many of their big stars, Sri Lanka beat Pakistan by 13 runs in the third and final T20 international here on Wednesday to complete a 3-0 whitewash of the top-ranked T20 side in the world. Batting first, Sri Lanka set the hosts a target of 148. But Pakistan lost … Read more
Kolkata, Oct 9 (IANS) Several areas of the city were inundated, disrupting vehicular movement following heavy showers since Wednesday afternoon. The city police’s traffic department said due to rain and water-logging, traffic was slow on the arterial Strand Road and C.R. Avenue. College Street and Council House street, as also some low-lying south Kolkata areas, … Read more
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Britain, it would seem, is yet to come to terms with the end of an era when ‘Britannia Ruled The Waves’ and is turning out to be an extremely churlish loser as the October 31 deadline for its exit from the European Union (EU) nears. A meticulously-researched … Read more
Bengaluru, Oct 9 (IANS) The ruling BJP is bracing for a three-day stormy session of the Karnataka legislature from Thursday, as the opposition Congress and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) decide to raise the alleged delay in relief aid for the flood-hit people across the state due to excess southwest monsoon rains and rivers overflowing, a party … Read more
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) A fresh telecom war between Reliance Jio and older operators — Airtel and Vodafone-Idea — erupted on Wednesday after the Mukesh Ambani-led Jio said it would charge 6 paise per minute for making calls to other networks, even as Airtel described it as pressure tactics by Jio to reduce interconnection … Read more
