Tokyo, April 24 (IANS) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday instructed Finance Minister Taro Aso to compile a supplementary budget for rebuilding areas seriously affected by the powerful earthquakes that have rocked the southwestern…
Aligarh, April 24 (IANS) One person was shot dead when two groups of students clashed in the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) here, police said on Sunday. A dozen students were injured in the violence that…
Mumbai, April 24 (IANS) JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar alleged on Sunday that a passenger tried to strangle him on board a Mumbai-Pune flight here but the airline refused to act against the attacker. In a…
Mumbai, April 24 (IANS) Jawaharlal Nehru University students union president Kanhaiya Kumar on Sunday said a man tried to strangle him on a Jet Airways flight earlier in the day. “Yet again, this time inside…
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) The external affairs ministry on Sunday revoked the passport of liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who owes Rs. 9,000 crores to various banks in India and is currently residing in Britain….
Kathmandu, April 24 (IANS) Nepalese Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli said the government is distributing eligibility certificates to 319,000 earthquake affected people on Sunday to receive promised grants to rebuild their damaged houses. The…
Lucknow, April 24 (IANS) One person was killed and over a dozen were injured on Sunday when student groups of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) clashed and set set varsity property, including vehciles and the…
PEDERNALES, April 23, 2016 (Xinhua) — Image taken with a mobile device shows Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa (C) talking with Chinese rescuers who work in the search for survivors in an affected area by the…
Kolkata, April 23 (IANS) As many as 46 people have been arrested by police in post-poll violence following the third phase of West Bengal assembly polls, the Election Commission said on Saturday. “Commission is following…
Chandigarh, April 23 (IANS) Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, convicted in the 1993 Delhi bomb blast, was on Saturday ordered to be released on a 21-day parole by the Punjab government. Bhullar, who is suffering from acute…
Chandigarh, April 23 (IANS) Shiv Sena leader Durga Prasad Gupta was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Khanna town of Punjab’s Ludhiana district on Saturday, police said. Gupta, who was provided security by the Punjab…
Itanagar, April 23 (IANS) Two people died in a fresh landslide on Saturday in Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh, taking the death toll in two days to 19, officials said. Union Minister of State for…
Chandigarh, April 23 (IANS) Almost a month after a young Dalit woman was dragged out of her office and later allegedly raped in Punjab’s Muktsar district, the main accused, Jagdeep Singh, has surrendered, police said…
Gurgaon, April 23 (IANS) The body of a 15-year-old girl was on Saturday dug out of her grave in Haryana’s Mewat district for an autopsy after her family alleged that she was murdered after being…
Itanagar, April 23 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Saturday visited the landslide-hit area near Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh which claimed at least 16 lives. “Minister of State for Home…
Dhaka, April 23 (IANS) Bangladeshi police suspect the involvement of Islamist radicals in the murder of a university teacher who was hacked to death on Saturday morning. Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, who taught English at the…
By Himadri Ghosh Kolkata: Over nine years since 2005-06, India’s gross domestic product (GDP) rose 76 percent, hiding darker changes that evolved in concert with this economic transformation. One of those is a 20 percent…
Gurgaon, April 23 (IANS) Two brothers were killed and three of their family members were critically injured when a neighbouring family attacked them in Gurgaon city of Haryana, police said on Saturday. Ajay Kumar and…
Islamabad, April 23 (IANS) The toll in the recent mass food poisoning after consuming toxic laddus (sweetmeats) has risen to 14 in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Six people died on Friday after they ate sweetmeats brought…
Washington, April 23 (IANS) A man suspected in two connected shootings that left five people dead on Friday night in the southern US state of Georgia has been found dead, police said. Police sources said…