14+ hour, 54+ min ago   (550+ words) Dhaka, Aug 23: Bangladesh has said there was “no rush” for Prime Minister Tarique Rahman to visit India and Dhaka would not compromise its national interests even though it wanted a positive relationship with New Delhi, according to a media report....

13+ hour, 34+ min ago   (370+ words) Shillong, Aug 23: A primary health centre in Meghalaya’s South West Garo Hills district has nearly doubled its institutional delivery rate over seven years by relying on early identification of pregnancies, repeated counselling and close coordination between health workers, community groups…...

13+ hour, 39+ min ago   (161+ words) The Meghalayan Express CM hails taxi bodies for calling off protest Shillong, Aug 23: Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma has welcomed Meghalaya taxi associations’ decision to temporarily call off their protest following a meeting with the state government convened by Deputy…...

14+ hour, 46+ min ago   (275+ words) Warsaw, Aug 23: Two people died and around half a million people were left without electricity across Latvia and Lithuania after a powerful cyclone, bringing rain and strong winds, hit the region on Saturday and into Sunday morning. “This seems to…...

14+ hour, 21+ min ago   (371+ words) Shillong, Aug 23: Ri-Bhoi district administration on Sunday asserted that normalcy returned along Meghalaya-Assam border, saying all blockades have been lifted and there is free movement of vehicles at Umiam. Ri-Bhoi Deputy Commissioner Dr Abhishek Saini said the All Khasi Meghalaya…...

14+ hour, 30+ min ago   (502+ words) Govt assures of joint meeting to resolve taxi bodies’ ‘genuine’ issues In a meeting chaired by Deputy Chief Minister in-charge Transport Sniawbhalang Dhar on Sunday, the associations insisted they would no longer enter Assam and decided to disallow Assam tourist…...

14+ hour, 48+ min ago   (541+ words) Kyiv, Aug 22: Russian drone and missile strikes killed at least seven people in Ukraine, officials said Saturday, while a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Krasnodar region killed three people there. The attacks came a day after a Russian strike on…...

19+ hour, 33+ min ago   (447+ words) Colombo, Aug 23: Skipper Shubman Gill and Devdutt Padikkal made assured 50 and 63 not out respectively as India moved to a strong 187 for three at tea on the opening day of the second Test here on Sunday. Gill, who was dismissed at…...

20+ hour, 49+ min ago   (245+ words) Kolkata, Aug 23: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday asserted that India is capable of becoming a global shipbuilding hub, as he virtually laid the foundation stone for five expansion projects of the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, and Yantra India…...

20+ hour, 40+ min ago   (249+ words) Chennai, Aug 23: Fifth seed Om Patel and top seed Deepshika Vinayagamurthy emerged champions in the boys’ and girls’ singles at the UNIFI–ITF Junior Tennis Cup here on Sunday. Deepshika produced a composed performance to defeat Savitha Bhuvaneswaran in straight…...