Kolkata, March 5 (IANS) Claiming that certain remarks made by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during a TV interview tantamount to “voter intimidation” and “open threat”, the CPI-M on Saturday lodged a formal complaint…
Shimla, March 5 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Saturday said the central government has approved the state’s master plans for development of Shimla and Hamirpur as solar cities. He said the ministry…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) AMU Vice Chancellor Lt. Gen. Zameer Uddin Shah (retd) met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, and told him that the centres that the HRD ministry has called illegal were…
Chandigarh, March 5 (IANS) The Border Security Force (BSF) on Saturday handed back a five-year-old deaf and dumb Pakistani girl to their Pakistani counterparts after she inadvertently crossed over into Indian territory in Punjab’s Abohar…
New Delhi: Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs and Information & Broadcasting Arun Jaitley addresses a Post Budget Press Conference, in New Delhi on Feb 29, 2016. Also seen Union MoS Finance Jayant Sinha. (Photo:…
Vasco (Goa), March 5 (IANS) Mumbai FC held Salgaocar FC 2-2 in a keenly contested I-League match at the Tilak Maidan Stadium here on Saturday. Salgaocar took the lead twice through Jackichand Singh (23rd minute)…
Thane (Maharashtra), March 5 (IANS) A week after the sensational massacre of 14 family members and the subsequent suicide by killer Hasnain Warekar, police have on Saturday come up with multiple motives behind the macabre…
Thiruvananthapuram, March 5 (IANS) There is no news of the Catholic priest from Kerala who was taken away by unidentified gunmen following Friday’s attack on a care home of the elderly in Yemen’s Aden, run…
Ranchi, March 5 (IANS) A Maoist guerrilla was killed by members of his rival group in Jharkhand’s Lohardagga district on Saturday, police said. According to police, the body of Maoist commander Muslim Ansari was found…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) The government on Saturday said that a total of 12 bills including the Aadhar Bill, Whistle Blower Protection Bill, Child Labour Bill and Real Estate Bill are proposed to be…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) It was a cloudy day here on Saturday with light rainfall experienced in some parts of the national capital. The maximum temperature was, however, recorded at 30.1 degrees Celsius, three…
Shanghai, March 5 (IANS) Fan Kexin led a podium sweep for China in the women’s 500 metres in the 2016 ISU Shanghai Trophy, a new short-track speed skating and synchronized skating event, on Saturday. The…
Bengaluru, March 5 (IANS) The Karnataka government on Saturday seized five two-wheeler taxis belonging to app-based cab aggregators Uber and Ola for violating the Motor Vehicles Act and operating without requisite permissions. “They (uberMOTO and…
Kuala Lumpur, March 5 (IANS) India paddlers made history twice in less than 24 hours with both women’s and men’s teams emerging triumphant in the second division of their respective sections at the 2016 World…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) TERI executive vice chairman R.K Pachauri, accused of sexually harassing a former woman colleague, had written six poems aiming to express his “feelings”, praising the beauty of the victim who…
Chandigarh, March 5 (IANS) The Haryana government will introduce a bill in the state assembly in the forthcoming session to grant reservation to five communities, including the Jats, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said on…
Ahmedabad, March 5 (IANS) The BSF has found yet another abandoned Pakistani trawler in the Sir Creek area in Gujarat’s Kutch district – the fifth such discovery in the last three months – on Saturday,…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) The ABVP on Saturday demanded an early release of the report of the high-level enquiry committee, probing the Jawaharlal Nehru University issue. The committee was set up on February 11…
Bangkok, March 5 (IANS) Indian shooter Jitu Rai reached the final of the 10 metres Air pistol to eventually finish fifth on competition day three of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup for…
Gurgaon, March 5 (IANS) A 40-year-old jeweller was shot dead in his shop here by two unidentified men, a police officer said on Saturday. While Pawan Kumar was opening his showroom here in Gurgaon district…