New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) Procurement of Rabi pulses has reached to 64,000 MT as on June 13 while the government has also ordered further import of 12,500 MT pulses for buffer stocks, an official…
New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) BJP MP Hukum Singh, who had claimed mass exodus of Hindu families from Kairana in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district, on Tuesday released another list of 63 persons who had fled…
Rome, June 14 (IANS/AKI) A stolen 2,000-year-old marble sculpture of the head of the first Roman emperor, Augustus, was welcomed back to Italy on Tuesday, over 40 years after it was illegally smuggled out of…
Kolkata, June 14 (IANS) Cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar, who was quite ruthless to bowlers during his playing days, showed his compassionate side by funding the reconstruction of a rural school in West Bengal’s West Midnapore…
New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) Delhi Power Minister Satyendar Jain has asked industrialist Anil Ambani, chairman of Reliance Group, to come up with a concrete plan on behalf of two power distribution companies in the…
Jammu, June 14 (IANS) Tension prevailed in a part of Jammu and Kashmir’s winter capital on Tuesday after some Hindu youth beat up two Muslim youth on allegations of vandalising a local temple and triggered…
New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) Taking cognisance of reports on alleged “migration” of Hindus from Kairana town, an issue flagged by the BJP, the Union Home Ministry on Tuesday sought a detailed report from the…
New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani and Bihar Education Minister Ashok Chaudhary on Tuesday indulged in a verbal duel on Twitter, triggered by the use of ‘dear’ word by…
Kolkata, June 14 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced that Jhargram, Kalimpong and Asansol will be given the status of new districts. “Our cabinet has approved that, in the first phase,…
New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) In a bid to intensify its campaign against the University Grants Commission (UGC) notification which purportedly increases the working hours of teachers, the Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) has decided…
Panaji, June 14 (IANS) Accusing Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar of retracting on his promise of “zero tolerance to corruption”, the AAP on Tuesday threatened to picket his official residence unless he came clean on…
London, June 14 (IANS) India edged past South Korea 2-1 in a Hockey Champions Trophy round-robin game at the Lee Valley Hockey Centre here on Tuesday to keep their chances of playing the gold medal…
New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) A manager of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has been arrested for allegedly demanding and accepting bribes, the CBI said on Tuesday. “Pravin Kumar working as manager, business projects, was…
New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) Ahead of the June 21 International Yoga Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged all ministries to make yoga a mass movement for better physical and mental well-being of the…
Gurgaon, June 14 (IANS) A 35-year-old man, working for Gurgaon police’s IT cell on outsourcing basis, has been arrested obtaining phone call records and other secret information of VIPs including a few Bollywood actresses. The…
Mumbai, June 14 (IANS) Accusing officials of failing to redress their grievances, three desperate persons, including a farmer, on Tuesday threatened to commit suicide at Mantralaya, the Maharashtra government headquarters, sending security personnel in a…
By Brajendra Nath Singh New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) Unhappy over some BJP MPs’ attempts, during the National Executive meet, at self-projection as probable chief ministerial candidates in Uttar Pradesh, party president Amit Shah has…
Mumbai: Actress Sridevi during 3rd National Yash Chopra Memorial Award, on Jan 25, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai, June 14 (IANS) Sridevi, who long reigned over Bollywood, will receive the award for outstanding achievement in Indian…
Ahmedabad, June 14 (IANS) The Navjivan Trust, the Ahmedabad-based publishing house founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1929, is planning to bring out his life story in a comic form. “It would be similar to Amar…
Shimla, June 14 (IANS) Commuters depending on buses were left in the lurch on Tuesday after employees of the state-run Himachal Road Transport Corp (HRTC) went on a two-day strike from midnight and asserted they…