Intense cold wave gripped Kashmir, with Kargil becoming the coldest place this winter.
'Whoever is doing it (threats to airlines), they are actually carrying out a recce.' 'This is the manner in which terrorists strike.'
The Indian arm of the global search engine and web provider, Yahoo, on Tuesday said that it had not put a freeze on hiring and that campus recruitment plans were still on.
Last week, the ITAT had dismissed the Congress' appeal against the imposition of penalties for discrepancies in tax returns for previous years.
Xu, 60, is expected to travel to New Delhi soon to take over his new posting.
A spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the world body 'hopes' that in India and any country that is having elections, people's 'political and civil rights' are 'protected' and everyone is able to vote in a 'free and fair' atmosphere.
The weatherman predicted that Saturday's minimum temperature was likely to remain at around four degrees Celsius.
A sneak peek of some extraordinary entries for the 60th annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year event.
United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday lifted the freeze on military trials for Guantanamo Bay terror suspects by signing an executive order that will create a formal system of indefinite detention of such prisoners. Within hours of his taking over as the President, Obama announced a freeze on Guantanamo Bay trials along with a vow to shut down the infamous camp within a year.
Temperatures are dropping across the United States, which is bracing for one of the coldest Januarys it has seen in quite some time.
A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and N Kotiswar Singh, which issued notice on the plea of the Congress against the March 13 high court order, however, said the ITAT can proceed on the political party's appeal.
Edtech company Byju's, which was once India's most valuable start-up worth an estimated $22 billion, will face insolvency proceedings for failure to pay Rs 158.9 crore to cricket board BCCI. The Bengaluru bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Tuesday allowed bankruptcy proceedings against the firm and appointed an interim resolution professional, suspending the company's board of directors and freezing its assets.
Terming terrorism as a phenomenon that affects many regions including South Asia, Southeast Asia, West East, America and Europe, he said it has many layers at the domestic and international level.
Taking stern action against Sahara Group in the high-profile investor refund case involving over Rs 24,000 crore, market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India on Wednesday ordered the freezing of bank accounts and attachment of all properties of two group firms and top executives, including Subrata Roy.
'A lot of them are converted to other tokens, and since crypto is dealt with internationally, it can go to any exchange in any country.'
'If I'm too nice, it doesn't help in that position.' 'My position almost asks me to be aggressive and not very nice.'
This has affected all political activity of the party, Maken said at a press conference.
Railway traffic has dropped 32 per cent to 99.86 mt between April 1 and May 14, compared to the same time last year, while its revenue, too, dipped 41 per cent to Rs 9,094.38 crore.
' We have run out of food items and there is no place to stock up again. When will this end?'
A blast of Arctic air from the polar vortex has brought dangerous, bone-chilling cold to a wide swath of the United States on Tuesday, stretching from the Dakotas through Maine, with snow expected as far south as Alabama and Georgia. Arctic air and icy conditions led schools to close, flights to be cancelled and railway officials to set fires on train tracks to prevent them from cracking.
Explosions shook cities and towns across Ukraine in the second-largest attack this week on Friday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron plans to slap a pay freeze on his ministers until 2020 in an attempt to show that the new government will share in new austerity cuts.
Official sources said all the banks, where Naik's and his organisation's accounts were in operation, have been asked to immediately freeze those till further directions.
Also limits on-flight catering costs at foreign airports to save cost
State-owned fuel retailers are losing close to Rs 3 per litre on selling diesel while the profit on petrol has trimmed due to recent firming up in international oil prices, industry officials said detailing reasons for continuing to hold retail prices. Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL), who control roughly 90 per cent of India's fuel market, 'voluntarily' have not changed petrol, diesel and cooking gas (LPG) prices for almost two years now, resulting in losses when input cost was higher and profits when raw material prices were lower.
Egypt on Monday imposed a freeze on the assets of ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his family and imposed a travel ban on him and his clan; two weeks after a mass uprising threw out his regime. The move comes close on the heels of an order seeking the freezing of the family's financial assets in foreign countries, following which the foreign ministry approached foreign governments and financial institutions. The ban would apply to his wife Suzanne and two sons.
Hours after an Iranian military commander claimed to have located the crash site of the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, conflicting reports emerged as the head of Iran's Red Crescent Society, Pir Hossein Koulivand, said that rescue teams are still searching the area for the accident site.
'France has decided to sanction Masood Azhar at the national level by freezing his assets'
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Petrol and diesel prices were cut by Rs 2 per litre each as state-owned oil companies ended a nearly two-year-long hiatus in rate revision, just hours before the general election schedule was announced.
Times have changed, situations have changed, but the basic nature of superpower geo-politics remains the same and so also India's diplomacy -- call it non-alignment, strategic autonomy or neutrality; it all depends on the time scale, notes Rup Narayan Das.
The Chinese military on Thursday said the situation along the India-China border 'at present' is 'generally stable' and both sides have maintained 'effective' communication to resolve the military standoff in eastern Ladakh.
As winter approaches, the days get shorter and it's the time when the Kashmir Valley turns orange-red.
The United States House of Representatives has approved a billion dollar defence bill, which, among other things, freezes the $700 million in aid to Pakistan until the country offers greater assurances to Washington to contain the spread of Improvised Explosive Devices.
The ED had conducted searches against the legislator, Sai Aaina Farms Pvt Ltd (now Mahira Infratech Pvt Ltd), other companies of the Mahira Group and some others in July last year.
"Based on the current economic environment and our focus on keeping costs in line with revenues, we have decided that providing annual salary increases would not be in the best interests of the company or our shareholders," Yahoo! spokesperson based in the US Kim Rubey told PTI in an e-mail.
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