Pune, Feb 24 (IANS) A fine display of pace bowling by Dhawal Kulkarni and Shardul Thakur gave Mumbai the upper hand on the first day of the Ranji Trophy final against Saurashtra at the Maharashtra…
Vientiane (Laos), Feb 24 (IANS) Bengaluru FC started their 2016 AFC Cup campaign on the wrong note as they went down 1-2 to Lao Toyota FC in a Group H match at the National Stadium…
Kolkata, Feb 24 (IANS) Amid the protests at the JNU and Jadavpur University, West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi on Wednesday warned that higher educational institutions were becoming ‘platforms of politics’. Addressing an event here, Tripathi…
Ranchi, Feb 24 (IANS) Unidentified criminals on Wednesday snatched Rs.10 lakh from a person after he arrived at the railway station here from Bokaro, police said. Police said Rajendra Prasad Yadav was in the process…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) With China’s increasing assertiveness on its claims over the South China Sea, Vietnam, the southeast Asian nation that is most vulnerable to this, on Wednesday appreciated India’s position on th…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) A court on Wednesday convicted former union minister P.K. Thungon in a corruption case related to the allotment of government shops here during 1993-94. Central Bureau of Investigation Special Judge…
Patna, Feb 24 (IANS) A total of 412 students caught cheating in Class 12 exams were expelled in Bihar on Wednesday and dozens of people who helped them to cheat have been arrested, officials said….
Kolkata, Feb 24 (IANS) A day after an indefinite rail blockade demanding statehood or union territory status for Cooch Behar in northern West Bengal was lifted, train movement on the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) was…
Ahmedabad, Feb 24 (IANS) A strike by a section of workers at the Tata Motors’ Nano plant at Sanand near here entered the second day on Wednesday. Assistant Labour Commissioner M.S. Patel said the striking…
Shimla, Feb 24 (IANS) The state-run Himachal Road Transport Corp (HRTC) on Wednesday restarted bus services to Delhi and Haryana following restoration of traffic on all highways, an official said. All buses on Delhi and…
Mumbai, Feb 24 (IANS) Caution-selling ahead of the upcoming railway budget and derivatives expiry depressed the Indian equity markets on Wednesday. Consequently, the barometer 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the BSE closed the day’s trade…
Gurgaon, Feb 24 (IANS) An officer of the Haryana food and supply department was on Wednesday arrested while accepting Rs.10,000 as bribe from a ration depot holder, an official said. A team of Haryana State…
Mumbai, Feb 24 (IANS) India have finished second in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test Championship, while Australia took the top spot after winning the Christchurch Test by seven wickets, which has given them a…
Mirpur (Bangladesh), Feb 24 (IANS) Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza won the toss and elected to bowl against India in the opening match of the Asia Cup at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium here on Wednesday. The…
Chennai, Feb 24 (IANS) A 68-kg cake was cut, an AIADMK leader floated on water for 68 minutes and 15 lakh people telephoned her birthday greetings as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK star J….
Los Angeles, Feb 24 (IANS) Actor Aaron Paul says he still regrets playing a prank about announcing a spinoff series on his character Jesse Pinkman from the popular American crime drama TV series “Breaking Bad”….
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) The CPI-M on Wednesday expressed “grave concern” over the growing signs of hatred and use of violence to intimidate groups and individuals who hold views contrary to those of the…
By Ruwa Shah New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Arrested JNU scholar Umar Khalid’s sister says her brother has wrongly been branded an Islamist terrorist because the self-proclaimed Marxist has a habit of questioning everything, including…
Mumbai: Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal at the seminar on Food Processing Industries `Opportunities in the food processing sector`, during the Make in India Week programme, in Mumbai on Feb 16,…
Imphal, Feb 24 (IANS) Plying of buses and trucks from Manipur to Nagaland was affected on Wednesday morning after a Naga students’ body announced an indefinite ban on vehicles to protest against alleged harassment of…