New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Indian men’s team captain Virat Kohli and newly-appointed head coach Ravi Shastri led Twitter users in congratulating all-rounder Harmanpreet Kaur, who on Thursday blasted an unbeaten 171 off only 115…
Kolkata, July 20 (IANS) In a bid to inspire cross-cultural connectivity between Bengal and Britain, the communities along the Thames and Hooghly rivers have come together for a year-long artistic exchange programme to create 20…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) The government on Thursday said that the Swachh Bharat Mission has picked up great momentum, with the sanitation coverage increasing from 41.80 per cent in October 2014 to 65.07 per…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) The government has spent around Rs 19,000 crore in the last two years for strengthening road infrastructure in the north-eastern region of the country, Minster of State for Road Transport…
By Sarwar Kashani New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) That cricket is followed like a religion in India is well known but a senior diplomat using the analogies of the sport to explain, or to conceal,…
By Nikhil M. Babu New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Fourteen days after an Ola cab driver kidnapped a 29-year-old Delhi doctor, the cab service provider company is yet to fix a policy loophole that favoured…
Gandhinagar, July 20 (IANS) As many as 11 Gujarat Congress legislators on Thursday were learnt to have cast their votes in favour of NDA’s presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind, and not for the official Congress-led…
Cairo, July 20 (IANS) The Arab League (AL) warned on Thursday against the growing cholera outbreak in war-ravaged Yemen, urging the international community to respond to the pleas of UN organisations to control the epidemic….
Brussels, July 20 (IANS) The European Union and Britain failed to bridge their differences on key Brexit issues, including financial settlement and the jurisdiction of overseas citizens, as the second round of negotiations concluded here…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday met Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and sought from the central government one-time settlement of the Rs 6,000 crore loans taken by…
Mumbai, July 20 (IANS) Tata Industries on Thursday said that laboratory testing major Eurofins Scientific will acquire its preclinical contract research company Advinus Therapeutics. “Tata Sons, Tata Industries and Rallis India announced today that they,…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday congratulated Ram Nath Kovind on being elected the President of India and reminded him that the President has been…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) The government on Thursday said that it has conducted various stakeholder consultations to evolve a procedure that would mandate air passengers to furnish a digital identification number for booking tickets….
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) The government has set a target of constructing 15,000-km of national highways during the current fiscal, Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Pon Radhakrishnan said on Thursday. Of…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Delhi saw some respite from the heat on Thursday, as the maximum temperature dropped two degrees due to a rainy morning even as the weatherman predicted light rain on Friday…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Calling the month-long military stand-off between India and China at Doklam part of a mind game, former Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran on Thursday said there was a possibility of a…
Kolkata, July 20 (IANS) National Award winning filmmaker Tigmanshu Dhulia, who is gearing up for the release of “Raag Desh – Birth of a Nation”, hopes the censor board doesn’t have any issues with the…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Director Avinash Das, who received critical acclaim for his film “Anaarkali of Aarah” earlier this year, said on Thursday he doesn’t like how women-oriented films underline the gender as it’s…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Thursday reviewed the progress of the work to set up multi-modal logistics parks across the country. In a meeting held…