New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and senior party leader P. Chidambaram on Thursday poked fun at RBI Governor Urjit Patel over his remarks that the scrapped notes deposited after the…
Ranchi/New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Jharkhand’s Principal Commissioner of Income Tax Tapas Kumar Dutta, arrested by the CBI on corruption and other charges, has been sent in four-day CBI custody, an official said on Thursday….
Amsterdam, July 13 (IANS) Young Dutch midfielder Abdelhak Nouri has suffered severe and permanent brain damage following his collapse on Saturday, his football club AFC Ajax said on Thursday. Nouri’s brain functions have been checked…
Abuja, July 13 (IANS/MAP) The Nigerian government was on Thursday urged by a key expert to lift a ban on import of some luxury goods. Fitzgerald Umah, the Chairman of Lagos Chapter of Nigeria Institute…
By Biswajit Choudhury Moscow, July 13 (IANS) Kolkata-based Srei Infrastructure Finance is currently exploring acquisition of Russian technology emerging from research at the frontiers of science and which will shape the future of computing and…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) The government has directed authorities to use experts from space technology and Indian Space Research Organisation to assess the damage caused by floods and landslides in the northeast in which…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) In a bid to enhance operational efficiency, the Home Ministry has given approval for a full-fledged Intelligence Wing in the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), mandated to guard the India-Nepal and…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Around 4.4 billion people lack safely managed sanitation and around 2.1 billion lack access to safe, readily available water at home, a new report by the WHO and Unicef has…
New Delhi, July 13 (July) The Supreme Court on Thursday took exception to Assam Chief Minister Sarbanand Sonowal’s interference with the preparation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) draft in the state. Sonowal had…
Mumbai, July 13 (IANS) A team of over 20 women parliamentarians from different parties visited the Byculla Jail here on Thursday in the wake of death of a woman inmate and subsequent violence last month….
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Two interstate arms smugglers have been arrested and their illegal firearms factory in Uttar Pradesh unearthed, police said on Thursday. Twenty pistols, including semi-automatics, and 180 cartridges apart from four…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee received the first copy of the book “President’s Lady” (Pranaber Preyosi) on his wife late Suvra Mukherjee on Thursday. Written by author Sangeeta Ghosh, the book was…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) A 29-year-old criminal carrying a bounty of Rs 50,000 on his head has been arrested here, police said on Thursday. A pistol, five cartridges and a stolen motorcycle were seized…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Thursday urged Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to urgently convene a tripartite meeting of the central and Bengal governments and the leaders of the…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Union Minister Kiren Rijiju, leading a high-level central team to supervise rescue and relief in flood-hit north-eastern states, on Thursday visited the affected districts and took stock of the situation….
Tokyo, July 13 (IANS) FC Barcelona defender Gerard Pique on Thursday affirmed that the club will never change its style of play and go for boring football even if results may not go their way….
Mumbai, July 13 (IANS) Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) posted net profit of Rs 5,945 crore for the first quarter of the current fiscal, registering a decline of 5.9 per cent from Rs 6,608 crore in…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) The RSS is believed to be in favour of the ruling NDA selecting a candidate belonging to the upper caste and southern India for the post of Vice President, in…
Chennai, July 13 (IANS) Frontline warships and submarines of India, the US and Japan on Thursday sailed out from Chennai harbour to participate in the sea phase of the Malabar joint naval exercise at an…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) An apex corporate tribunal on Thursday restored Vikram Bakshi as Managing Director of Connaught Plaza Restaurants Pvt Ltd. The decision by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT assumes significance as…