Chandigarh:21 June: As everywhere else at home and 192 countries of the world, International Yoga Day (IYD) was observed today at 85 military stations of Western Command today. About 3 lakh participants including officers, JCOs and their families, children and civilians participated in the event. GoC-in-C Western Lt.General K.J.Singh attendedRead More

STOCKHOLM: Danish political parties began talks today on the formation of a coalition government, two days after elections, in which the anti-immigration Danish People’s Party’s (DPP) emerged as the country’s second-biggest force, local media reported. Lars Lokke Rasmussen of the centre-right Venstre party began consultations today morning, after being tappedRead More

ROME: Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi’s popularity and public trust in his centre-left party have been damaged by corruption scandals and the immigration crisis, a new poll showed today. The survey, carried out by the Demos polling institute and published in La Repubblica daily, showed support for his Democratic PartyRead More

LONDON: Whistleblowing organisation WikiLeaks has published more than 60,000 diplomatic cables from Saudi Arabia that reveal, among others that the US embassy in Saudi Arabia had refused Osama bin Laden’s son a death certificate. According to a cable revealed on Friday, the son of the former Al Qaeda chief andRead More

SHANGHAI: Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed his commitment to alleviating China’s persistent rural poverty, only weeks after four children in a poor countryside area appeared to have killed themselves, sparking a national debate. State media quoted Xi speaking on Thursday at a Communist Party conference about the 13th Five-Year Plan,Read More

CHARLESTON: Friends of the white gunman who shot and killed nine black people inside an historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina said he first talked about attacking a college campus, the Washington Post and NBC News reported on Friday. The Washington Post reported 22-year-old Christon Scriven, a black neighborRead More

DUBAI: Bahrain released at dawn today a Sunni opposition leader who was jailed more than four years for involvement in Shiite-led anti-government protests, his party announced. The Waed secular group said on its official Twitter account that party chief Ibrahim Sharif was freed. Bahrain, home to the US Navy’s FifthRead More

LONDON: Citizens of all ages, backgrounds and abilities in London will be celebrating the first International Yoga Day on Sunday. They will be able to take part in yoga and meditation classes for free at places like the South bank and Alexandra Palace, The London Evening Standard reported. Prime MinisterRead More

Jodhpur, Jun 20 : Self-styled ‘godman’ Asaram Bapu, who is in jail since September 2013 for allegedly raping a minor, was today denied bail by a court here, the sixth time his plea for relief has been turned down. Additional District and Sessions Judge Manoj Kumar Vyas rejected the bailRead More

New Delhi, Jun 20 : External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today left for New York where she is going to participate in the International Yoga Day event being organised by the Indian Mission at the United Nations. Swaraj, who left by an early morning Air India flight, tweeted, “Leaving forRead More