New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) Union Urban Development Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Sunday said he has taken up the issue of sanitation workers dying while manually cleaning clogged sewers in the national capital with…
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday made a fervent appeal to the public to help locate the parents of Geeta, a deaf and mute 25-year-old Indian woman who was…
Mumbai, Oct 1 (IANS) Celebrated film director Ashutosh Gowarikar, who is quite enthused at the Indian audiences appreciating biopics, expressed his desire to make a film on legendary singer-dancer Gauhar Jaan. Present at the finale…
Mumbai, Oct 1 (IANS) Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Sunday said it would appeal against a US court order in a lawsuit filed by an American firm for damages on the alleged misuse of its…
Port Blair/Kolkata, Oct 1 (IANS) An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 on the Richter scale shook the Andaman Islands on Sunday, an official said. No casualties or damage was reported. “An earthquake of magnitude…
Nagpur, Oct 1 (IANS) Following is the scorecard for the fifth and final One-Day International (ODI) played between India and Australia at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground here on Sunday. Australia: David Warner c Manish…
Canberra, Oct 1 (IANS) A year after a freak “thunderstorm asthma” outbreak killed nine and led to thousands being hospitalised in the southern Australian city of Melbourne, the Victorian state government on Sunday launched a…
Nairobi, Oct 1 (IANS) A film festival will roll out in Nairobi on Monday featuring 2,600 entries from 120 countries, including India, many about slum lives or shot by slum communities. Organisers of the annual…
Mumbai, Oct 1 (IANS) Reliance Communication (RCOM) on Sunday said it will evaluate an “alternate plan for its mobile business”. According to the company, its board of directors at a meeting held here on Sunday…
Barcelona, Oct 1 (IANS) FC Barcelona said their La Liga match against visiting team Las Palmas would go ahead as scheduled on Sunday despite turmoil over a Catalan independence referendum but that it would be…
London, Oct 1 (IANS) Arsenal chalked up their third straight home victory in the English Premier League (EPL) football championship, defeating Brighton & Hove Albion 2-0 in the seventh round of play on Sunday. Spaniard…
Riyadh, Oct 1 (IANS) A university in Saudi Arabia has said it will open a driving school for women, the first time in the country after a ban on women driving was lifted, reports said…
Sanaa, Oct 1 (IANS) A US-made pilotless plane was shot down by a Houthi missile north of Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Sunday morning, Houthi officials and residents said. The plane, seen by a Xinhua photographer…
Damascus, Oct 1 (IANS) At least 3,000 people including 955 civilians were killed in September in the ongoing civil war, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. Over 70 per cent of the…
Paris, Oct 1 (IANS) A man was shot dead by French security forces after he killed two persons in a knife attack at the Saint-Charles station in the port city of Marseilles in south France…
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) The national capital on Sunday saw maximum temperature of 36.4 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average, and weather analysts say the mercury will hover around this for next…
Shimla, Oct 1 (IANS) Foreigners are literally paddling towards a cleaner and healthier countryside in Himachal Pradesh. The central government’s ambitious programme Swachh Bharat Abhiyan may not be on their agenda, but they were racing…
Chennai, Oct 1 (IANS) Tamil actor Vikram’s son Dhruv will be making his acting debut with yet-untitled Tamil remake of Telugu blockbuster “Arjun Reddy”, it was announced on Sunday. “Read to make the leap. Dhruv…
Naples, Oct 1 (IANS) Napoli continued their 100 per cent start this season defeating Cagliari 3-0 in the Serie A football league seventh round on Sunday. Marek Hamsik opened the scoring for Napoli after just…
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) Urging cleanliness be made a national movement, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Sunday that achieving the goal of “Swachh Bharat” will be true tribute to Mahatma Gandhi. Kovind, who…