Hyderabad, Dec 19 (IANS) A special NIA court here sentenced to death five convicts, including the banned Indian Mujahideen (IM) co-founder Yaseen Bhatkal and a Pakistani national, in the 2013 Hyderabad bomb blasts. Bhatkal alias…
Chennai, Dec 19 (IANS) Middle-order batsman Karun Nair became the second Indian cricketer after Virender Sehwag to score a triple century in a Test innings, achieving the feat on the fourth day of the fifth…
Kanpur, Dec 19 (IANS) Welcoming the Election Commissions proposal to ban anonymity behind donations of more than Rs 2,000 to political parties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday assured it of implementing measures aimed at…
Hyderabad, Dec 19 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday rejected the opposition demand for a CBI probe into the case relating to slain gangster Nayeem, who allegedly had links with top politicians…
Los Angeles, Dec 19 (IANS) Singer Marc Anthony and his wife Shannon de Lima have officially announced that they are getting divorced. In a statement obtained by people.com, the former couple responded to — and…
Damascus, Dec 19 (IANS) At least 3,500 people have left government-besieged areas in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo since the evacuation resumed Monday, a British war monitor said. Some 500 others left Shiite towns…
Lucknow, Dec 18 (IANS) Home favourites India produced a clinical performance here on Sunday to outclass maiden finalists Belgium 2-1 and clinch their second Hockey Junior World Cup title after a 15-year-gap. Gurjant Singh (eighth…
Hyderabad, Dec 18 (IANS) Leading Telugu actor and Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan on Sunday said he would not let BJP move to go back on its poll promise to accord special category status to…
Hyderabad, Dec 18 (IANS) Actor Aamir Khan on Sunday said that if at all filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli were to make “Mahabharata”, then he would love to play Krishna or Karna. “I’m a huge fan of…
By Arun Kumar Washington, Dec 18 (IANS) Donald Trump rewrote history with an incredible presidential run that made him Time’s Person of the Year and catapulted him to the second spot on Forbes list of…
Jakarta, Dec 18 (IANS) At least 13 persons were killed when an Indonesian military plane crashed in eastern part of the country on Sunday, officials said. A Hercules plane operated by Indonesian air force crashed…
Caracas, Dec 18 (IANS) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has delayed the withdrawal of the 100-bolivar banknote until January 2, reports said on Sunday. The sudden change of policy came after days of economic crisis in…
Hyderabad, Dec 17 (IANS) Popular Telugu actor and Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan on Saturday again targeted the BJP, this time on the issue of patriotism. In a series of tweets on the issue on…
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime needs to be implemented between April 1 and September 16, 2017, due to constitutional compulsions….
Chennai, Dec 17 (IANS) DMK President M. Karunanidhi will have to be in hospital for some more days for treatment and party members, friends and others are requested not to visit the facility, the party…
By Amulya Ganguli Dynastic succession is not the only means of attaining power in India. As the rise of Sasikala Natarajan in the AIADMK in Tamil Nadu shows, being the companion of a leader revered…
New York, Dec 17 (IANS) To fact-check the posts from US President-elect Donald Trump’s Twitter account, the Washington Post has released a Chrome plug-in — first for any American news outlet. According to a report…
Washington, Dec 17 (IANS) The US magazine Vanity Fair said on Friday it saw a record-breaking subscription after US President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that the publication is “dead”. Xinhua news agency quoted the magazine’s parent…
Washington, Dec 17 (IANS) Outgoing US President Barack Obama asserted on Friday that a September confrontation with his Russian counterpart prompted Moscow to cease its hacking of the US election. During a meeting on the…
New York, Dec 17 (IANS) An Indian-origin immigration manager of an outsourcing company has been found guilty in a H-1B visa fraud case, Paul Fishman, the New Jersey federal prosecutor, said on Friday. Hari Karne,…