New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) Confusion prevailed over the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) employees’ strike on Monday with the Delhi government saying the strike has been called off while various sanitation workers’ associations maintaining…
New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) The Congress on Monday attacked the Aam Aadmi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party over the strike of the sanitation workers in the city and accused the city government of…
New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) With the government pushing for cashless transactions, for the first time ever, tickets for the Republic Day programmes are being offered to the public against payments through credit and debit…
Gurugram, Jan 9 (IANS) The city of Gurugram will get a facelift as the government of Haryana with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) as its national partner is all set to host two-day celebrations of…
Beijing, Jan 9 (IANS) Archaeologists in China’s Hunan province said on Monday that they recently discovered an ancient tomb, with a detailed fresco, that could date back over 1,400 years. Luo Shengqiang, an expert with…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy It will not be an exaggeration to say that the South Municipal Corporation of Delhi took Lt Governor Anil Baijal for a ride when he went on his first major inspection…
Shimla, Jan 9 (IANS) People are singing praises for the songs of this girl from a nondescript village in Himachal Pradesh. Confined to the boundaries of her home and school earlier, the voice of the…
By Swagata Yadavar There were nine road accidents that killed three people every 10 minutes in 2015, according to new national data, an increase of nine per cent over four years. Road accidents killed 148,000…
By Rhea Colaco First, the good news: 37 babies died for every 1,000 that were born in 2015, two better than the government’s projections of an infant mortality rate (IMR) of 39 for that year,…
By Qadri Inzamam Jaipur, Jan 9 (IANS) In its bid to accelerate the digital transformation of Rajasthan, global networking giant Cisco on Monday announced a slew of initiatives, including video-enabled digital classrooms in women colleges…
Dubai, Jan 9 (IANS) A snake on a plane led to the cancellation of a flight from Muscan in Oman to Dubai, the media reported. The incident happened on Sunday when the snake was discovered…
New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) At least 41 trains were running late and three were cancelled due to dense fog in parts of north India on Monday morning, a railway official said. According to the…
Panaji, Jan 8 (IANS) An Indian tourist and a German national have been bitten apparently by sea snakes, locally called ‘hichan’, or some sea creature while swimming off Goa’s popular Calangute beach, a lifeguard agency…
Panaji, Jan 8 (IANS) An Indian tourist and a German national have been bitten apparently by sea snakes, locally called ‘hichan’, or some sea creature while swimming off Goa’s popular Calangute beach, a lifeguard agency…
Xi’an (China), Jan 8 (IANS) Chinese city Xi’an, one of the most popular tourist destinations inn the country, will appoint “toilet chiefs.” The city in the northwest of the country is also planning to make…
By Sahana Ghosh Kolkata, Jan 8 (IANS) West Bengal has evolved a rather unique solution to growing human-elephant conflicts (HECs) — constructing toilets so that villagers don’t have to defecate in the open and face…
Gurugram, Jan 7 (IANS) Lamenting her failure to “get” Lord Shiva despite years of austerities and fervent devotion, a woman committed suicide in a temple here, police said on Saturday. Anisha Sharma immolated herself in…
New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) Delhi Police on Saturday assured of action against a molester, who runs away after kissing random girls and later posts videos of the ‘prank’ on social media websites. “We have…
Beijing, Jan 7 (IANS) China has a total of 734 million 4G mobile users, and 5G commercial operations will be launched in 2020, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) announced. Wen Ku, head of…
By Sumit Chaturvedi From her troubled teenage years to being a social activist working for the rights of the transgender community, Sharmila (name changed to protect identity), 44, has come a long way. But the…