Brasilia, May 13 (IANS/EFE) Brazilian acting President Michel Temer on Thursday chose leading figures from nine centrist and conservative parties for his cabinet, which for the first time in decades has no female ministers. Temer,…
Hyderabad: Quinton de Kock of Delhi Daredevils in action during an IPL match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi Daredevils at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on May 12, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Hyderabad, May 13…
Dhaka/New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) India on Thursday conveyed its strong support to Bangladesh in its fight against extremism and terror. The support was conveyed during a meeting Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar had with his…
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) India on Thursday said Pakistan’s present nuclear policy has been a cause of concern internationally, and its battlefield atomic weapons were causing such apprehensions. “There have been international concerns about…
(150715) — COLOMBO, July 15, 2015 (Xinhua) — Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena. (Xinhua/Easwaran) New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena’s two-day visit to India from Friday will further cement bilateral relations,…
Kolkata, May 12 (IANS) A city street food vendor on Thursday succumbed to his injuries three days after he was pushed into a cooking-pot full of curry following an altercation with a customer, police said….
Airbus logo. (File Photo: IANS) Bengaluru, May 12 (IANS) Global aerospace major Airbus SAS on Thursday signed an agreement with Karnataka-based Aequs Aerospace to source 100,000 titanium machined parts for its A320 new engine programme….
Ahmedabad: BJP leader Subramanian Swamy addresses a press conference in Ahmedabad, on Nov 19, 2015. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) In an embarrassment for the government, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy…
Islamabad, May 12 (IANS) Tension along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border has escalated over the fencing of a two km area at the Torkham crossing which was stopped by the Afghan forces, a media report said on…
Bhubaneswar, May 12 (IANS) The Odisha government on Thursday said South Korean firm Posco had temporarily put on hold its $12 billion greenfield steel plant project near Paradip. “Posco has temporarily halted its proposal to…
Baghdad, May 12 (IANS/AKI) Islamic State militants burnt a family of five in northern Iraq to death after they tried to flee from a district under the control of the jihadist group, according to a…
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) India’s factory output growth turned flat in March after rising during the month before, even as the annual retail inflation for April rose to 5.39 percent from 4.83 percent in…
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) The work of loading reactor fuel into the second unit of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu has begun successfully, a source at the KNPP said on Thursday….
Dhaka/Islamabad, May 12 (IANS) In an apparent tit-for-tat move, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh Shuja Alam was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka once again on Thursday, hours after Islamabad summoned Dhaka’s…
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) The CBI on Thursday questioned former ISRO chief G. Madhavan Nair in connection with an alleged loss of Rs.578 crore in an agreement between multi-media company Devas and Antrix, the…
Vijay Mallya. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) In a key step towards securing the extradition of Vijay Mallya, the CBI on Thursday forwarded an Enforcement Directorate letter to Interpol seeking issuance of…
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) NGO Swaraj Abhiyan on Thursday accused the Raman Singh government in Chhattisgarh of inviting a “fraudulent” tender and paying a hefty commission of $1.57 million on the purchase of one…
Islamabad, May 12 (IANS) Pakistan on Thursday summoned Bangladeshi envoy over the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, who was hanged on Tuesday over “war crimes during the 1971 separation movement”. Nizami was sent…
London, May 12 (IANS) Gay armed forces personnel will soon be allowed to wed in the chapels of military bases after an Armed Forces minister announced a pilot scheme due to begin in the near…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: IANS/PIB) Thiruvananthapuram, May 12 (IANS) Social media, including Twitter and fast-flying WhatsApp messaging service, has been flooded by upset Malayalis attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he compared Kerala with…