Paris, May 29 (IANS) Leading members of rival Libyan factions and the international community on Tuesday signed an accord in Paris paving the way for legislative and presidential elections to be held in the war-torn…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Indian Ambassador to Russia Pankaj Saran was on Tuesday appointed the deputy National Security Advisor (NSA) for a period of two years. A 1982 batch IFS, Saran before being appointed…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Delhi Police and cab aggregator Ola on Tuesday launched “Street Safe” campaign to create awareness about drinking, using phone while driving and over-speeding. Delhi Police PRO Madhur Verma said that…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Justice Raghuvendra Singh Rathore on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking the recall of its March 27 order appointing Justice Jawad Rahim as the acting Chairperson of the NGT, asserting…
Moscow, May 29 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to US mixed martial artist Jeffrey Monson, according to a presidential decree published on Tuesday. Monson, 47, had won 61 out of 88…
Dubai, May 29 (IANS/WAM) Citizens of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be able to travel to Canada without procuring a visa from June. The announcement came during a meeting between UAE Minister of Foreign…
New Delhi/Bengaluru, May 29 (IANS) AirAsia India (AAIL) on Tuesday refuted any “wrong-doing” after the CBI registered a case against AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes for allegedly trying to circumvent rules to get an international…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Top India and Pakistan military commanders on Tuesday spoke over a special hotline contact and committed to peace on the borders in Jammu and Kashmir amid persistent crackling of gunfire…
Palghar (Maharashtra), May 29 (IANS) An election officer, who was among two detected transporting VVPAT-EVMs in a private car after polling in the Palghar Lok Sabha bye-elections on Monday night, was suspended on Tuesday, officials…
Mumbai, May 29 (IANS) A day after the parlimentary bypoll, Gondiya Collector Abhimanyu R. Kale was abruptly shunted from his post and kept on stand-by, an official statement said here on Tuesday evening. He has…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) The trailer of Rajinikanth’s new flick “Kaala” has come out amidst speculation that the film may not be shown in Karnataka. From action scenes to heart-warming sequences to moments of…
Paris, May 29 (IANS) Croatian Marin Cilic, third-seeded, on Tuesday beat Australia’s James Duckworth 6-3, 7-5, 7-6 (7-4) to advance to the second round of the French Open. Cilic, the 2014 US Open champion, blasted…
Guwahati, May 29 (IANS) Thousands of persons participated in a mass hunger strike here on Tuesday to protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016. The protest at the Assam Engineering College ground in Chandmari area…
Ranchi, May 29 (IANS) Two armed Maoist guerrillas were arrested in Jharkhand’s Simdega district on Tuesday, police said. According to police, the members of the banned People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) were arrested during…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Companies in India are likely to recruit more permanent employees than contractual workers in the times ahead, a report said here on Tuesday. “The results suggest that recruitment drives will…
Chennai, May 29 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K.Palaniswami on Tuesday said the order issued by the state government shutting down the Sterlite Copper plant is legally valid and blamed the DMK for the violence…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a Madhya Pradesh High Court order pronouncing the death sentence for a person convicted along with an accomplice of the kidnapping, gang rape and…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) The decision of the Tamil Nadu government to shut the copper smelter plant in Tuticorin would have serious economic ramifications by pushing India’s annual import bill by an estimated $2…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Postal services in rural areas across the country remained affected as the strike by Gramin Dak Sevaks entered the eighth day on Tuesday. The countrywide strike started on May 22…
Panaji, May 29 (IANS) The Congress’s Goa unit on Tuesday said that it will petition President Ram Nath Kovind to appoint a “full-fledged Chief Minister” in the absence of Manohar Parrikar, who is in the…