Kolkata, Sep 20 (IANS) In a bid to pay homage to the killed Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, BSF’s South Bengal Frontier will organise a half marathon in the city on October this year, an…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The number of retired persons is increasing in the country and we should try and use their energies in a positive manner, said Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Wednesday as…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) In a first of its kind order, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Unitech to pay the litigation cost to home buyers who had succeeded before the grievance redressal commission…
Patna/New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Once friends, and now his arch foes — rebel JD-U leader Sharad Yadav and RJD chief Lalu Prasad — took pot shots at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday,…
The Hague, Sep 20 (IANS) Organisations, institutions and individuals advocating non-violence are joining hands with the Indian community in the Netherlands and the Embassy of India to launch a unique campaign titled ‘Follow the Mahatma’…
New York, Sep 20 (IANS) Actress Priyanka Chopra, a UN Goodwill Ambassador, spoke up for girl empowerment and felicitated an Indian woman working towards supporting acid attack victims, at the Global Goals Awards at the…
Geneva, Sep 20 (IANS) An estimated 40 million people, mostly women and girls, are trapped in modern slavery and 152 million children are subject to child labour, a UN report has revealed. Developed jointly by…
By Nikhil M. Babu New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) With their less-than-an-acre rice field parched due to poor rains and elder son caught up in a court case, what led to Pehlu Khan’s lynching has…
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 20 (IANS) The Kerala government on Wednesday decided to frame a new law which will ensure strict action, including a jail term, and a fine for those polluting water bodies. The state cabinet…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) Troops posted in the Siachen glacier have sent back to the base more than 63 tonne garbage since 2014 — the year “Swachh Bharat Mission” was launched, the Indian Army…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) The lawyer representing the family of Pradhuman — the seven-year-old boy who was brutally murdered in Ryan International School in Gurugram in Haryana on September 8 — on Tuesday questioned…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) In a bid to clear extra rush during the festival season, the railways will run 4,000 special trains between September 20 and October 30. Railway officials gave this information to…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to submit a list of steps taken to ban the Blue Whale online game that has led to numerous suicides among…
Lucknow, Sep 19 (IANS) In a tragic incident, a Class IX student in Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh hanged himself from a tree after being punished and humiliated by school teachers and staff for not being…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) The central government will on Wednesday launch a mobile application for its pensioners, which will help retired officials monitor the progress of pension settlements. The application will be launched at…
Patna, Sep 19 (IANS) Notwithstanding the laws, child marriage in Bihar particularly in rural areas is a reality, with the percentage of under-age marriages touching as high as 50 per cent in 340 blocks, says…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) The Delhi government will launch from Wednesday a year-long awareness campaign against drug use, Social Welfare Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam said here on Tuesday. The campaign, to start from the…
Shimla, Sep 19 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Tuesday laid the foundation stone to begin the restoration work of the British-era Bantony Estate, a grand private castle decaying for many decades here,…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) The WHO has released its first tranche of emergency funding of $175,000 to provide lifesaving healthcare to the “vulnerable population” in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, a statement said on Tuesday. Though…
Bhubaneswar, Sep 19 (IANS) Tata Steel has in association with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) launched an initiative to create awareness about environment issues in school campuses in Odisha’s Jajpur district, an official said…