Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs, and Information and Broadcasting Arun Jaitley (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) The government on Thursday said “every possible action will be taken” against beleaguered liquor baron Vijay…
By V. Jagannathan Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), March 10 (IANS) An Indian rocket on Thursday evening blasted off successfully with the country’s sixth navigation satellite called IRNSS-1F from the rocket port here. The Polar Satellite Launch…
Waashington, March 10 (IANS) Five people were killed in a shooting spree at a home in Pennsylvania state, media reports said on Thursday. The incident took place on Wednesday night in Wilkinsburg borough of Allegheny…
Mumbai, March 10 (IANS) A benchmark index of Indian equities markets, the 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), on Thursday provisionally closed the day’s trading 170.62 points, or 0.69 percent, in the negative territory. The wider 50-scrip…
Patna, March 10 (IANS) There was an uproar in the Bihar legislative assembly on Thursday as legislators slammed Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray and demanded action over his remarks to burn auto-rickshaws of non-Marathis…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) may ban the controversial Art of Living (AoL) cultural event here if it doesn’t pay up the Rs.5 crore fine slapped on it, a lawyer…
New Delhi: Air Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa assumes charge as the Vice Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS), in New Delhi on June 1, 2015. (Photo: IANS/PIB)’ New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) The number of…
Lucknow, March 10 (IANS) A Samajwadi Party legislator, Mohammad Irfan, was killed on Thursday along with his driver and a party leader when their car met with an accident in Uttar Pradesh, police said. Irfan,…
By Sourabh Kulesh New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) UC browser, popular on mobile phones, has tied up with micro-blogging site Twitter and tech giant Microsoft’s search engine Bing to provide a mobile gateway to live…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Assassinating former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was the Tamil Tigers’ biggest mistake, a new book quotes the late LTTE ideologue Anton Balasingham as saying. Balasingham told Norway’s former Special…
Hyderabad, March 10 (IANS) Telangana, India’s youngest state, is targeting to achieve 15 percent growth rate in 2016-17 to emerge as the number one state in the country. Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan stated this in his…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani suffered a minor heart attack on Thursday and has been admitted to a hospital here, his spokesman said. “It was a minor heart…
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said that key documents related to the Ishrat Jahan case have gone missing from his ministry…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) A 28-year-old doctoral scholar of the Jawaharlal Nehru University committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in his rented accommodation here, police said on Thursday. The student identified…
Mumbai, March 10 (IANS) The cross-examination of Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist-turned-approver in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case, Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley, will start before a special court on March 22 for four days, a legal official…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Taking up some long-pending issues in the oil and gas space, India on Thursday approved a new policy for their exploration while also defining the norms for pricing of existing…
Actor Salman Khan. (File Photo: IANS) Jodhpur (Rajasthan), March 10 (IANS) Bollywood actor Salman Khan on Thursday insisted that he had been wrongly accused of having illegal weapons and killing two blackbucks here in 1998….
Dhaka, March 10 (IANS) A Bangladeshi nurse has been reportedly missing in New York for over three months, a media report said on Thursday. Mahfuza Rahman, 30, was last seen at her workplace, the Bellevue…
Washington, March 10 (IANS) When it comes to vulnerability to cyber attacks, India along with China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and South Korea is most vulnerable, says research led by an Indian-American scientist. While the US…
By Arul Louis United Nations, March 10 (IANS) New permanent members of the Security Council too must get the veto power, India has said, adding it is ready to “compromise” for a temporary period. India’s…