New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the centrale and Delhi governments to take effective steps to ensure that the dengue and chikungunya patients are not denied treatment or admission…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh’s holy city of Varanasi — Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency — has made it to the list of 27 smart cities announced by Urban Development Minister M….
Kolkata, Sep 20 (IANS) Objecting to a section in the draft Trafficking of Persons (Prevention and Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2016, representatives of sex workers’ collectives from east India on Tuesday asserted that many are…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) A combative Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal on Tuesday dubbed the case filed against her as “false” and said that it’s a conspiracy by few people who…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said that after Independence most of the public buildings and institutions were named after one family only, though there were others…
Damascus, Sep 20 (IANS) The Syrian army on Tuesday denied it had launched air strikes on UN humanitarian aid convoys in the Aleppo province, media reported. The army said the reports about air strikes on…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday issued notice to the Railway Board over the weak and damaged tracks in Kerala. Observing that the railway is the most preferred…
Nairobi, Sep 20 (IANS) In a case of hospital cruelty, the body of a teenager who died of kidney failure was being held by a Nairobi hospital for seven months due to unpaid bills. The…
New York, Sep 20 (IANS) A human skeleton found during the ongoing excavation of the famous Antikythera Shipwreck — the largest ancient shipwreck ever discovered — could provide an insight into the lives of people…
By Team IANS New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The age-old proverb “old is gold” may not hold true for traditional black-yellow taxis any more, given the people’s increasing preference for app-based cab services for intra-city…
Patna, Sep 20 (IANS) Following criticism on social media for announcing a Rs 5 lakh each compensation for the three martyred soldiers in the Uri attack, the Bihar government on Tuesday raised the compensation to…
Nashik (Maharashtra), Sep 20 (IANS) Indian Army soldier Chandrakant Shankar Galande – who was martyred in a terror attack in Uri on Sunday – was cremated with full military honours here on Tuesday morning, officials…
By Nikhil M. Babu In the run-up to the 2014 general elections, then prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, while addressing a gathering of Dalits and backward classes in Kerala, had described himself as a victim…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) A 21-year old woman died after being stabbed 22 times by a jilted lover on Tuesday morning in full public view here, police said. The woman has been identified as…
Nashik (Maharashtra), Sep 20 (IANS) Indian Army soldier Sandeep Somnath Thok, who was martyred in a terror attack in Uri on Sunday, was cremated in his native Khadangli village early on Tuesday morning with full…
By Vishal Gulati Leh, Sep 20 (IANS) There is a “rockstar monk” crooning the song of gender equality and harmony, of saving the Himalayas for the future — cycling down the treacherous mountains and preaching…
Arrah (Bihar), Sep 19 (IANS) Sangeeta, the widow of Havildar Ashok Kumar Singh who was killed along with 17 of his comrades in the Uri terror attack, on Monday said she wanted nothing but revenge…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) General Secretary Ram Madhav has said that the Assam government on Monday evicted 1,800 families of illegal settlers from the Kaziranga National Park area. “Upholding its…
Patna, Sep 19 (IANS) The elderly parents of three soldiers from Bihar, who were among the 18 troops killed in a terror attack in Uri in Jammu and Kashmir, are sad at the sudden upheaval…
Leh, Sep 19 (IANS) A 60-foot-tall silk embroidery brocade of Buddha Amitabha was unfurled on Monday at once-in-12-years carnival of spirituality, culture and tradition near the 17th century Hemis monastery of Drukpa lineage, the largest…