Should the ban continue, India cannot host the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup which is scheduled to commence on October 11 later this year. Luckily for India, FIFA has not yet announced an alternative host, providing the country with some hope.
Read MoreTerrorists lobbed grenades and escaped security forces’ cordon in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Wednesday. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the Kutpora area of Shopian Tuesday night following information about the presence of militants there, they said.
Read MoreTej Pratap Yadav, the elder brother of Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi, got the environment, forest and climate change portfolio in the state’s cabinet expansion on Tuesday. Tej Pratap had handled the health portfolio during his curtailed ministerial stint in the first Mahagathbandhan government in 2015. That berth was kept by Tejashwi this time around.
Read MoreIn Talaq-e-Hasan, ‘talaq’ is pronounced once a month, over a period of three months and if cohabitation does not resume during this period, the divorce gets formalised after the third utterance in the third month.
Read MoreDelhi on Tuesday reported 917 new Covid-19 cases, 1,566 recoveries, and 3 deaths in the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, India reported 8,813 fresh Covid cases and 15,040 recoveries. There were 29 deaths due to Covid. The daily positivity rate stands at 4.15 per cent, while the active Covid cases have fallen to 1,11,252. Stay...
Read MoreSenior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad resigned as chairman of the party’s newly constituted Jammu and Kashmir campaign committee just hours after he was appointed to the post by party president Sonia Gandhi.
Read MoreSix ITBP personnel and a policeman were killed and over 30 others are injured after a bus fell into a deep gorge in the Pahalgam area of Jammu and Kashmir. The injured are being airlifted to Army hospital, Srinagar for treatment, police said.
Read MoreHe alleged that the FBI “stole” his passports, while warning that that America will go up in flames unless he tells his agitated supporters to cool it.The warning, widely seen in the liberal commentariat as intimidation, came even as the department of homeland security alerted local authorities about threats from extremists who have called...
Read MoreJust days after facing considerable embarrassment over appointing a murder accused to the Wakf board, the state BJP faced more ridicule – from some of its own ministers – after an audio clip in which minister JC Madhuswamy purportedly suggests the government is “not performing well” was widely shared on social media.
Read MorePolice have arrested four persons in connection with the stabbing incident at Shivamogga on Monday. One of the arrested accused suffered bullet injury in his leg after cops opened fire at him.
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