Barcelona, July 19 (IANS) Catalan football giants Barcelona announced on Tuesday that they have agreed to extend their sponsorship with Qatar Airways for one more season. The agreement stipulates that Qatar Airways will be the…
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Tuesday said it would issue bids for construction of roads and highways with a total length of 10,000 km by the end…
Mumbai, July 19 (IANS) The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) on Tuesday said that two Nifty50 based leveraged and inverse (L&I) products will be launched in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. According to the…
Kabul, July 19 (IANS) At least 260 Taliban militants gave up fighting in Afghanistan’s Samangan province and handed over their weapons to authorities on Tuesday, a police official said. “The fighters, including three key Taliban…
Panaji, July 19 (IANS) Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to look into what he said was “massive destruction” of the Western Ghats by neighbouring Karnataka, especially in and around…
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal said on Tuesday that following his meeting with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa last week, he is hopeful that the state will join the Uday…
London, July 19 (IANS) England head coach Trevor Bayliss has indicated that the hosts could field two spinners after Yorkshire’s Adil Rashid was called into the squad for the second Test against Pakistan starting on…
Amritsar, July 19 (IANS) Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, who resigned from the Rajya Sabha on Monday, has quit the BJP as well and would not return to its fold, his wife said here on Tuesday….
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) is no longer a part of the Ministry of Communications and has become a separate ministry, according to sources. Now DeitY is…
Imphal, July 19 (IANS) The Manipur High Court on Tuesday said it was not satisfied with the government’s explanation on declaring activist Khomdram Ratan an absconder. Ratan, who was the convener of the Joint Committee…
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) Minister of State for Finance Santosh Kumar Gangwar on Tuesday, quoting the Financial Stability Report of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), said bad loans of public sector banks (PSBs)…
London, July 19 (IANS) Hospital admissions with patients diagnosed by hypoglycaemia have seen a 39 per cent rise in last ten years, a study by an Indian-origin scientist has said. Hypoglycemia is a short-term and…
Mumbai, July 19 (IANS) Rahul Bose turned nostalgic on Twitter as he shared memories from when he was 13. He started a campaign asking social media users to share memories or experiences from when they…
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the central government and the Election Commission on a plea that candidates in the election fray should disclose sources of their income…
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asked BJP parliamentarians to take out ‘Tiranga Yatras’ in their constituencies to mark India’s 70th Independence Day and inform people about 70 achievements of…
Ankara, July 19 (IANS) The Turkish parliament will launch a comprehensive probe into the July 15 coup attempt, a leader said on Tuesday. “They attacked so many places but parliament was on the top of…
London, July 19 (IANS) Researchers have found that the same set of genes that make us prone to depression could also lead us to positivity in life. The findings showed that cognitive biases occur when…
Baghdad, July 19 (IANS) Over 200 people were on Tuesday detained by the Islamic State militant group in the Iraqi city of Mosul for their alleged collaboration with the Iraqi army. The IS moved them…
Srinagar, July 19 (IANS) No newspaper will come out here on Wednesday after Srinagar-based editors and publishers on Tuesday decided not to go to print in protest against the government’s “propaganda blitzkrieg that there was…