Cape Town, Jan 25 (UNI) The Indian Men’s Hockey Team recorded a 2-2 draw with France in their second game of the South Africa Tour on Wednesday night. Mandeep Singh (8′), and Amit Rohidas (19′) scored the two goals for India, while France came back in the contest with goals from Timothee Clement and B…
Seoul, Jan 25 (UNI) The Missile Administration of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Wednesday conducted the first test-fire of the new-type strategic cruise missile “Pulhwasal-3-31” under development, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Thursday. The test-fire had no impact on the security of neighboring countries and has nothing to…
Gaza, Jan 25 (UNI) A UN training center in Gaza’s major southern city of Khan Younis was attacked and set on fire on Wednesday, killing at least nine people, a UN official said. Two tank rounds hit the building that shelters 800 people, killing at least nine people and wounding 75 others, Thomas White, director…
Ottawa, (UNI) Six people died and only one survived the crash of a BAE Jetstream aircraft in the vicinity of Fort Smith, in Canada’s Northwest Territories (N.W.T) the coroner’s office for the territory said on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said that it was deploying a team of investigators to investigate…
Beijing, Jan 25 (UNI) A 5.2-magnitude earthquake jolted Aheqi County in Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture of Kizilsu in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 6:21 a.m. Thursday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter, with a depth of 15 km, was monitored at 41.08 degrees north latitude and 78.55 degrees…
Ayodhya (UP), (UNI) A massive huge turnout of devotees was witnessed in Ayodhya on the second day on Wednesday after the consecration ceremony of Lord Ram during which people stood in long queues around Rampath and the temple premises since morning braving severe cold coupled with fog. Devotees of all ages fervently kept chanting Jai…
Hyderabad, Jan 24 (UNI) Team India captain Rohit Sharma was forthright about India’s selection headache for the first Test of the ICC World Test Championship series between India and England that begins here from Thursday. With Virat Kohli absent due to personal reasons and KL Rahul ruled out as a wicketkeeping option by head coach…
Mumbai, Jan 24 (UNI) The BSE Sensex on Wednesday rallied 689.76 pts to close high at 71,060.31 on the strength of Telecommunications, Metal and Oil and Gas stocks. The National Stock Exchange (NSE) rose 215.45 pts at 21,453.95. The NSE registered days high and low at 21,482.35 and 21,137.20 pts respectively. High oscillation was witnessed…
Nanchang, Jan 24 (UNI) The death toll from a building fire in the city of Xinyu in east China’s Jiangxi Province on Wednesday afternoon has risen to 39, local authorities said. The fire broke out at approximately 3 p.m. from a street shop in the Yushui District of Xinyu, said the local fire response emergency…
Mumbai, Jan 24 (UNI) Maharashtra state Governor and chancellor of universities Ramesh Bais has been appointed to Dr. Vijay Janardhan Phulari as new vice chancellor of Fr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University (BAMU) in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. According to the official press statement issued on Wednesday, Dr. Vijay Phulari is a senior professor at Shivaji University, Kolhapur,…
