Bengaluru, March 23 (IANS) Four people were killed on the spot in a tragic road accident on the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway near Sankalagere village in Channapatna taluk of Karnataka’s Ramanagara district on Monday.The deceased have been identified as 22-year-old Mohammed Farhan and 45-year-old Sulfi from Kozhikode in Kerala, and 45-year-old Rasheed, a resident of Kalasipalya in Bengaluru, along with Saker from Annepalya in Adugodi.According to police, a private bus operated by PK Travels, which…
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Dhaka, March 12 (IANS) Bangladesh has the opportunity to establish a National Human Rights Commission fully aligned with the Paris Principles — an independent, pluralistic body with a broad mandate, transparent selection processes, and active engagement with civil society. The commission would meet long-held aspirations of Bangladeshi citizens, reinforcing the country’s commitment to human rights, boosting public trust, and promoting democratic governance and justice, a report said on Thursd…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will host its annual awards ceremony on March 15 in New Delhi, where five Indian teams that won ICC trophies over the past year will be honoured, said secretary Devajit Saikia. The BCCI awards ceremony titled ‘NAMAN’, will celebrate India’s recent success in ICC events across formats and age groups, as well as honour the best performers in international and domestic games in the 2024/25 season.“The BCCI Awards ceremo…
Seoul, March 6 (IANS) South Korea recorded its fifth-largest monthly current account surplus in January, driven by a semiconductor upcycle and strong exports, central bank data showed on Friday.The current account surplus totalled US$13.26 billion in January, down from $18.7 billion in December, according to the Bank of Korea (BOK).Compared with the same month a year earlier, however, the figure surged 397.4 percent, marking the fifth-largest monthly surplus on record, reports Yonhap news agency…
New Delhi/Aizawl, March 5 (IANS) Law enforcement agencies, in separate operations, have seized highly addictive methamphetamine tablets and heroin valued at around Rs 36 crore in Mizoram and arrested seven drug peddlers, including three Myanmar nationals, officials said on Thursday. Officials said that the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), along with the SIB of Mizoram and the State Excise and Narcotics Department, in joint operations seized 36.434 kg of methamphetamine tablets and 905 grams of he…
Tehran, Feb 28 (IANS) Tehran was rocked by massive explosions on Saturday after Israel launched what it described as “preventive” missile strikes against Iran, dramatically escalating tensions in the region, local media reported. The strikes come amid heightened strain between the United States and Iran over a potential nuclear agreement and growing fears of a wider military confrontation in the Middle East.Several missiles hit areas along University Street and in the Jomhouri district of th…
Washington, Feb 4 (IANS) Tara Chand, President of Baloch American Congress, slammed Pakistan’s Defence Minister, Khawaja Asif, over his claim that enforced disappearances in Balochistan are a fraud, describing the remarks as “shameless, cruel, and deeply offensive”.Taking to social media platform X, Chand said, “Pakistan’s Defence Minister, Khawaja Asif, should be ashamed. Speaking on the floor of the National Assembly, he claimed that the issue of enforced disappearances in Balochistan is…
Shahdol, Feb 2 (IANS) Two tigers — one male and another female — were allegedly electrocuted to death in Madhya Pradesh’s Shahdol district in suspicious circumstances, prompting the senior forest officials to initiate an immediate search operation in the area. According to information, the carcasses of the big cats were spotted in the Banchachar village of the Jaisinghnagar range in the North Forest division of Shahdol district, a forest official told IANS on Monday.The carcass of the tigress …
Seoul, Jan 30 (IANS) LG Electronics said on Friday it remained in the red in the fourth quarter of 2025 from a year earlier, due mainly to weak market demand coupled with one-off costs caused by its restructuring programme.Its net loss came to 725.9 billion won (US$505.7 million) for the October-December period, compared with a loss of 713.7 billion won posted a year earlier, the company said in a regulatory filing.LG Electronics posted an operating loss of 109 billion won for the fourth quarter…
New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) India’s combined tax-to-GDP ratio has reached 19.6 per cent, placing the country at par with several major global economies and highlighting steady progress in tax collection efficiency, according to a report by Bank of Baroda. The ratio includes both central and state tax collections and is higher than that of several emerging markets such as Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia.The report noted that while India’s central gross tax revenue stands lower at 11.7 per cent…