Sydney, Sep 25 (IANS) Thousands of passengers faced delays on Monday following an air traffic control system failure at the Sydney airport, the media reported. Dozens of flights were cancelled while many more were experiencing…
Mumbai, Sep 25 (IANS) Veteran journalist and Marathi litterateur Arun Sadhu passed away after prolonged illness here on Monday. He was 76 and is survived by his wife Aruna, a renowned social worker, and daughters…
Washington, Sep 25 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has issued a new order banning almost all travel to the country from seven nations, including North Korea and Chad, saying that the citizens of these countries…
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was visibly annoyed on Sunday when a man interrupted him during an event here and sought to know the Hindi equivalent of ‘bullet train. As…
Shimla, Sep 24 (IANS) Former Himalaya Mountain Biking (MTB) champion Cory Wallace is among the top bikers set to race again in the state’s off-road tracks at the 13th Hero MTB Himalaya this month, event…
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday referred to Khadi not as a cloth but a “movement” which should be taken forward as a campaign. “I had earlier mentioned that Khadi…
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that his monthly radio programme “Mann Ki Baat” has played an important role in the integration of every section of society and improving…
By Natalia Ningthoujam New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) Indian classical music generally has a limited audience. Pune’s popular vocalist Suhas Vyas feels that it is because classical music is for a certain class of people….
New Delhi, Sep 23 (IANS) Tihar jail woman inmate Lesley is scared of facing the world after her release from the prison and so are others like her, she said on Saturday. Lesly was speaking…
Noida/New Delhi, Sep 23 (IANS) The reported gang rape of a 25-year-old woman in a moving car in Noida area on Friday evening turned out to be a hoax, with the woman giving in writing…
Kolkata, Sep 23 (IANS) Amid a massive crackdown by the West Bengal CID to net fake doctors, a controversy erupted at a Durga Puja celebration here on Saturday over a depiction of the demon ‘asura’…
New Delhi, Sep 23 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday saluted the Indian soldiers who laid down their lives to liberate Haifa in 1918. “On Haifa Day, I salute the brave Indian soldiers who…
Gurugram, Sep 23 (IANS) A district court on Saturday granted the CBI custody of the three accused arrested by Haryana Police in connection with the killing of seven-year-old student Pradhuman Thakur of Ryan International School…
New Delhi, Sep 23 (IANS) Located in the heart of Kolkata, the Victoria Memorial has long stood as a symbol of British Raj in India and the tourist hotspot has now topped the list for…
London, Sep 23 (IANS) Some 400,000 people have signed a petition urging Transport for London (TfL) to reverse its decision not to renew Uber’s licence, the media reported on Saturday. On Friday, the regulator said…
By Milinda Ghosh Roy Basirhat (West Bengal), Sep 23 (IANS) Basirhat, the sub-division in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district that witnessed communal tension in July, is now doing its best to leave behind those…
Washington, Sep 23 (IANS) US President Donald Trump defended his wife and First Lady Melania Trump after she faced criticism for wearing sky-high stilettos while en route to the hurricane Harvey-hit Texas state last month,…
Mumbai, Sep 22 (IANS) Nirvaan, India’s smallest and youngest pre-term baby born after 22 weeks only, who had to remain in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for 132 days, was discharged from a city hospital…
Chandigarh, Sep 22 (IANS) Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s “adopted daughter” Honeypreet’s former husband Vishwas Gupta on Friday accused them of having illicit relations and said their father-daughter relationship was a sham…
New Delhi/New York, Sep 22 (IANS) Thirty-two countries, having the world’s 85 million children under the age of five, do not have any essential policy that supports families with young children, a UNICEF report said….