Mumbai, Sep 1 (IANS) Bollywood celebrities, including Anil Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor and Sushant Singh Rajput, have congratulated former India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni who played his 300th match in 4th ODI against Sri Lanka….
Washington, Sep 1 (IANS) US Vice President Mike Pence has announced that some 311,000 people, who were affected by the catastrophic Hurricane Harvey that lashed through the state of Texas, have registered for government disaster…
Washington, Sep 1 (IANS) Russia has been given two days to close its consulate in San Francisco as well as diplomatic annexes in Washington and New York, the US State Department has said. The move…
New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) Minister of State for Skill Development Rajeev Pratap Rudy on Thursday night resigned from the Union Council of Ministers, while six others are believed to have offered to resign from…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) India and Switzerland on Thursday agreed to enhance cooperation in the fight against tax fraud while acknowledging the need for a global level playing field for implementation of the international…
Colombo, Aug 31 (IANS) Disciplined bowling from Jasprit Bumrah, Pandya and Kuldeep Yadav helped India defeat Sri Lanka by 168 runs at R. Premadasa Stadium here on Friday to go 4-0 up in their five-match…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) A major decline in manufacturing and the lingering effects of demonetisation sharply pulled down India’s economic growth rate in the first quarter of the current fiscal ended June to 5.7…
Mumbai, Aug 31 (IANS) In the worst building crash this monsoon, at least 22 persons were killed and another 34 injured when a 117-year-old, six-storey building collapsed near the J.J. Hospital here on Thursday morning,…
Brussels, Aug 31 (IANS) The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator on Thursday said no decisive progress had been made in the discussions regarding the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the bloc. Following a third round of…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said that he expected convergence of two Goods and Services Tax (GST) rates into one in the coming days, though ruling out a single…
Rawalpindi, Aug 31 (IANS) An Anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi on Thursday declared former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf absconder in the assassination case of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto while acquitting all the five accused arrested…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday claimed that extra notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination worth Rs 1.1 lakh were deposited in banks after demonetisation. Senior party…
Chennai, Aug 31 (IANS) Superstar Mahesh Babu said his son Gautam, who turned 11 on Thursday, is the reason for his existence and his happiness. “He is the reason for my existence. My driving force….
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) A delegation of opposition parties on Thursday met President Ram Nath Kovind and urged him to ensure that a floor test is conducted in the Tamil Nadu assembly so that…
Washington, Aug 31 (IANS) Fifty six per cent of Americans have said that they believed President Donald Trump was “tearing the country apart” instead of drawing people together, according to a new poll. While the…
By Tridib Baparnash New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) Impressed by Badminton Association of India (BAI) President Himanta Biswa Sarma’s initiative to create a pool of players for the 2018 Commonwealth Games and Asian Games, star…
Mumbai, Aug 31 (IANS) A four-storeyed residential building collapsed near J.J. Hospital in south Mumbai on Thursday, officials said. More than two dozen people were living in the old and dilapidated Arsiwala building on Maulana…
Washington, Aug 31 (IANS) US President Donald Trump began his campaign to achieve comprehensive tax reform, although such an overhaul of the tax code must go through Congress for approval. Trump launched his campaign with…
Washington, Aug 31 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has said that “talking is not the answer” in dealing with North Korea’s military operations. “The US has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion…
Geneva, Aug 31 (IANS) UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has said that US President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media could amount to incitement and embolden followers to attack certain…