Mogadishu, Oct 23 (IANS) Twenty-six men held hostage by Somali pirates for nearly five years have been released, international mediators said on Saturday. Their ship, the FV Naham 3, was seized south of the Seychelles…
New York, Oct 23 (IANS) Telecommunications giant AT&T on Saturday agree to buy Time Warner, the home of HBO and CNN, for about $85.4 billion, in one of the biggest media tie-ups ever. The move…
Mumbai, Oct 23 (IANS) Superstar Aamir Khan says he enjoys reading books on film celebrities even though the stories aren’t 100 per cent accurate. Aamir was at the launch of “Music, Masti, Modernity – The…
Karachi, Oct 23 (IANS) A Sessions Court in Karachi on Saturday granted an interim pre-arrest bail to the Frontier Constabulary (FC) guard Hasan Abbas, who had slapped a female reporter of a Pakistani private news…
Yaounde, Oct 23 (IANS) The toll in the train derailment in Cameroon has risen to 63, the media reported on Saturday. Eight more bodies were discovered from the accident site, a day after the accident…
Panaji, Oct 22 (IANS) Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Saturday said that there was a prima facie case against former Goa IGP Sunil Garg, who is facing graft accusations and currently being probed by…
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) The BJP on Saturday handed over Rs 1 lakh for the education of the daughter of AAP worker Soni Mishra, who committed suicide after her molester — also a party…
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) Discussion on arbitral process by judges, government officials, luminaries, legal experts and corporates was the highlight of the second day of the ongoing global conference on legal issues here on…
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has granted bail to Sher Singh Rana, the lone convict in the sensational murder of bandit-turned-Lok Sabha member Phoolan Devi here in 2001. A division bench…
Lucknow, Oct 22 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) district unit in the state capital on Saturday came in for sharp criticism for posing with victory signs and smiling at an event related to protests…
Kolkata, Oct 22 (IANS) Services of South Eastern Railway (SER) were adversely hit on Saturday following an eight-and-half-hour-long agitation by commuters at Markona station in Odisha. Locals, demanding stoppage of some mail and express trains…
Indore, Oct 22 (IANS) Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group Chairman Anil Ambani on Saturday said the state held great potential for investment in defence sector. He was speaking at the Global Investors Summit 2016 that…
Hyderabad, Oct 22 (IANS) Union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday advised chartered accountants to help curb the growth of black money. Inaugurating two-day international conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of…
Guwahati, Oct 22 (IANS) The All Assam Students Union (AASU) on Saturday threatened to launch a sustained movement to foil the central government’s attempt to make make minority communities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan eligible…
Hardiwar, Oct 22 (IANS) Japanese electronics behemoth Panasonic Corporation’s Indian arm Anchor Electricals on Saturday began making wiring devices and switchgears at its new plant here. Set up at with an upfront investment of Rs…
Mumbai, Oct 22 (IANS) Noted Bollywood director Karan Johar, whose latest- ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ is all set for a Diwali release, said he finished writing the story of the film in just nine days….
Ahmedabad, Oct 22 (IANS) Kumar Mangalam Birla, the 49-year-old Chairman of the $41 billion industrial conglomerate Aditya Birla Group, has been named the new Chairman of the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A), according to a…
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) Mrida, a social business venture, in partnership with Mahindra & Mahindra, distributed e-rickshaws, shared soil health cards with villagers and organised a health camp in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s…
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) The BJP on Saturday said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had lost the moral right to hold the post after a Delhi court framed charges against him in a criminal…
Vadodara, Oct 22 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hinted at ‘surgical strikes’ against those who have failed to declare their unaccounted money by the September 30 deadline under the Income Declaration Scheme (IDS)….