New York, Aug 21 (IANS) Anand Kumar, the founder of ‘Super 30’, on Monday urged Indians to come together to make the country a world leader. Speaking at the India Day parade at Madison Square…
New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Lt. Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit (retired), the main accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast which killed seven people. A bench of Justice…
New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) The railways said on Monday traffic on the Meerut-Muzaffarnagar-Shaharanpur section in Uttar Pradesh where the Kalinga Utkal Express derailed has been restored. The traffic was restored at 1.21 a.m. The…
Nay Pyi Taw, Aug 21 (IANS) Myanmar authorities on Monday called for the preservation of the country’s largest fresh water Indawgyi lake in Kachin state in order to promote ecotourism. Indawgyi Lake, which is also…
Washington, Aug 21 (IANS) Negotiators from the US, Canada and Mexico have concluded the first round of the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA) talks here to redo the three-nation trade pact, the media reported….
Hong Kong, Aug 21 (IANS) Thousands of people took to the streets of Hong Kong to protest against the jailing of three pro-democracy leaders for their involvement in the 2014 anti-government occupation known as the…
Mumbai, Aug 21 (IANS) At least three passengers of the Hubli Express were injured near the Khandala Ghat in Maharashtra when rocks from a mountain fell on the train following a landslide, officials said on…
Havana, Aug 21 (IANS) A dark-skinned piglet with a face similar to that of a monkey was born last week in a Cuban town , according to a state media report. The piglet was born…
New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy morning here on Monday with the minimum temperature recorded at 28.3 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average, weather officials said. “The sky will…
Mumbai, Aug 21 (IANS) The key Indian equity indices on Monday were trading flat in the morning session. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), was trading 7.96 points or 0.03 per cent higher soon after opening….
By Biswajit Choudhury Bhubaneswar, Aug 21 (IANS) A private electricity distribution company (discom) is scripting a remarkable story of cutting its aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses in rural Odisha, which remains one of only…
Singapore, Aug 21 (IANS) Guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a merchant vessel near here on Monday leaving 10 Navy sailors missing and five injured, a statement said. The destroyer collided with the…
Sydney, Aug 21 (IANS) Scientists and prominent tech leaders have called for the United Nations (UN) to take action to stop the proliferation of “killer robots.” At the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in…
Singapore, Aug 21 (IANS) The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with the merchant vessel Alnic MC near the east of Singapore and the Straits of Malacca on Monday morning. The ship was on…
Geneva, Aug 21 (IANS) A small tourist plane crashed in Switzerland on Sunday, killing all the three people on board, police said. Police confirmed that the accident occurred on Sunday afternoon at the Sanetsch Pass…
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing, Aug 20 (IANS) China will not share hydrological data with India until it withdraws its troops from Doklam, an expert at a Chinese think tank has said. Hu Zhiyong, a research…
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Sunday visited the LNJP hospital where a worker died while cleaning a sewer and sought a report on the incident. Jain, who also met…
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) A 28-year old woman from Nigeria was arrested on charge of fatally stabbing her live-in partner during a scuffle over a trivial issue in west Delhi, police said on Sunday….
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) Looking up from a depth of 12 feet in a sewer with less than a metre-wide opening, Sumit on Sunday recalled holding Rishi Pal tight to his body and signalled…
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) Swaraj India on Sunday accused the Delhi government of being “insensitive and irresponsible” over the death of sewer workers here and demanded a White Paper on their problems. Accusing the…