Mumbai, Oct 2 (IANS) International ratings agency Fitch on Monday lowered India’s growth forecast to 6.9 per cent, as the country’s GDP growth unexpectedly faltered in the second quarter of 2017-18 (2Q17). The ratings agency…
Lucknow/New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Monday received the administration’s permission to visit his parliamentary constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh on October 4, officials said. The Congress leader, who was…
Beijing, Oct 2 (IANS) Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal on Monday said he has been saddened almost to the point of tears by recent events in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia. The regional government…
Kolkata, Oct 2 (IANS) Chile’s Under-17 football team coach Hernan Caputto on Monday wished he would never have to face the three other teams in Group F again after the preliminary stages of the FIFA…
Catania (Italy), Oct 2 (IANS/AKI) A 25-year-old woman was hospitalised on Monday after allegedly being repeatedly gang-raped by an acquaintance and two other men in the Sicilian port city of Catania. Police arrested the three…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday appointed a five-member Commission headed by Delhi High Court’s former Chief Justice G. Rohini to examine sub categorization of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) under…
Kolar (Karnataka), Oct 2 (IANS) In a tribute to the father of the nation on his 148th birth anniverary, Kolar Deputy Commissioner K.V. Thrilok Chandra again became a doctor and treated about 100 patients on…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) After integrating climate change into wildlife planning, putting greater thrust on wildlife health management and poaching, increasing public outreach and tweaking previous strategies, the Union Environment Ministry on Monday released…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) In a freak accident, a 72-year-old man died here on Monday after his clothes caught fire from a ‘beedi’ he was smoking, police said. A police officer told IANS that…
Kolkata, Oct 2 (IANS) Three middle-aged tribal women allegedly committed suicide by consuming poisonous seeds in West Bengal’s Bankura district, police said on Monday. “Three women – Sumitra Mandi, Mamoni Hasda and Salomoni Tudu, all…
London, Oct 2 (IANS) Joanna Blair, who won the women’s javelin title at last year’s British Athletics Championships, was on Monday provisionally suspended after failing an anti-doping test. Blair, who recorded a personal best of…
Mumbai, Oct 2 (IANS) Indian Oil Corp. (IndianOil) on Monday said it has received its first US crude oil cargo of 1.6 million barrels. According to the company, it received the shipment at Paradip port…
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Las Vegas, Oct 2 (IANS) In one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history, at least 50 people were killed and more than 400 injured as a gunman in a high-rise hotel here opened…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday said despite both being metropolitan cities, the Metro train fare in Kolkata is cheaper in comparison to Delhi. Addressing media persons here, AAP…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Oct 2 (IANS) Meeting under the grim shadow of the overnight Las Vegas massacre, the leadership of the global organisation on Monday renewed its commitment to embodying Mahatma Gandhi’s belief…
Mumbai, Oct 2 (IANS) As Bollywood celebrated the Rashtriya Swachhta Diwas here to mark the 148th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, actor Anupam Kher criticised those finding faults with the government’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of failing to keep his promise of creating a corruption-free India and threatened to begin an agitation if Modi…
Rome, Oct 2 (IANS) Striker Andrea Belotti and midfielders Marco Verratti and Lorenzo Pellegrini have been excluded from the Italian squad’s roster due to injuries, the country’s football federation said on Monday. Coach Gian Piero…
Bengaluru, Oct 2 (IANS) Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy on Monday said the investigation team probing the killing of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh has got “some clues” on the killers and knows who is behind it,…