London, June 12 (IANS) The townsfolk of what is reputed to be Britain’s oldest town gathered in their market square Saturday to celebrate the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth. The small market town of 33,000…
Kabul, June 11 (IANS) A blind police officer was on Saturday appointed the district police chief in the restive Uruzgan province of Afghanistan, local media reported. The move by the Ministry of Interior was described…
New York, June 11 (IANS) Fans threw flowers at the hearse, rose petals were scattered along the road and stirring tributes were paid as heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali was laid to rest at a memorial…
New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) Taking serious note of the indiscriminate policies of some domestic airlines on flight cancellations and refunds, the Civil Aviation Ministry on Saturday proposed a number of steps to rein them…
New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) Following are the existing policies of domestic airlines on various passenger services, notably in areas like refunds, and the proposals the Civil Aviation Ministry has come out with to recast…
By Jaideep Sarin Gunehar (Himachal Pradesh), June 11 (IANS) A remote village in the picturesque Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh is experiencing its brush with contemporary art. With artistes of international repute being in residence…
New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) Taking a serious note of the indiscriminate policies followed by airlines on flight cancellations, the Civil Aviation Ministry on Saturday announced a host of steps to rein them in and…
New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday appreciated the social work done by Anand Kumar, an educationist from Bihar, saying it was “inspiring”. Kumar, who works for the underprivileged students, presented his…
New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) Describing the recent attacks on Africans in the national capital as “racial”, African students here on Friday urged Indians to come forward and join hands with them to put an…
Kolkata, June 9 (IANS) Freedom fighter Sudhansu Jiban Ganguly, who accompanied Mahatma Gandhi on his peace mission to Noakhali after the 1946 communal riots, died here on Thursday following a heart attack, family sources said….
New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) A nine-month-old baby girl, born with an abnormal food pipe, is now able to take in food successfully after key-hole surgery at a city hospital here. According to doctors at…
New York, June 9 (IANS) We are more likely to sacrifice a man than a woman when it comes to saving the lives of others and in pursuing our self-interest, says a study that suggests…
New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari on Thursday condoled the passing away of eminent journalist K.K. Katyal. “I am deeply grieved to hear about the demise of eminent journalist K.K. Katyal….
Warsaw, June 9 (IANS) More than 16,000 personal items belonging to Jews who were held in the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz were uncovered in Poland’s capital Warsaw, after 50 years since they were excavated….
Beijing, June 9 (IANS) A section of the Great Wall, submerged in a reservoir in China’s Hebei province for nearly four decades, has re-emerged. The section in Kuancheng Man county, was built more than 500…
New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday issued notice to the Madhya Pradesh government over the death of two labourers working in a sewerage project last month. On May…
New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) In line with a recommendation of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the Bihar Government on Wednesday paid Rs 3 lakh to the family of an alleged CPI (Maoist) leader,…
Beijing, June 8 (IANS) Chinese children are much taller and stronger than they were four decades ago, with the height gap standing at 8 cm, a government survey showed on Wednesday. The National Health and…
Mumbai, June 8 (IANS) Forty under-privileged children aged seven and above spent an educative afternoon – with laughter mixed with learning at a multi-cuisine eatery here on Wednesday during which it emerged that most of…
By Shreya Mittal & Sukanya Bhattacharyya As many as 18.3 million Indians live in conditions listed as “modern slavery” in 2016, equivalent to the population of Netherlands, a rise of 4.1 million since 2014, according…