New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to immediately roll back the spiking of high value currency and jail those with illegal Swiss bank accounts….
New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, posting two videos of the latter’s speech on his official Twitter account. “First laughter now…
Panaji, Nov 13 (IANS) Even as lakhs across India queue up outside ATMs and banks for a fourth day to surrender demonetised currency and withdraw cash, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday made an impassioned…
Los Angeles, Nov 13 (IANS) “Silicon Valley” stars Kumail Nanjiani and Thomas Middleditch have said they were recently harassed by two US President-elect Donald Trump supporters in a bar here. The actors took to Twitter…
Imphal, Nov 13 (IANS) A litre of petrol on Sunday was selling for Rs 300 in Manipur due to the indefinite economic blockade imposed by the United Naga Council (UNC) against the creation two new…
Washington, Nov 13 (IANS) Tens of thousands of people are set to participate in a “Women’s March on Washington” the day after President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated on January 20, 2017. The event, which is…
Erbil (Iraq), Nov 13 (IANS) The top leader of the Jihadist Islamic State (IS) has fled Mosul, last extremist enclave left on Iraqi soil, according to the governor of the Nineveh province in Iraq. Governor…
Mosul, Nov 13 (IANS/AKI) Thousands of women from the Yazidi minority are being held by the Islamic State jihadist group in the embattled Iraqi city of Mosul, local news site Ara News reported, citing a…
Kolkata, Nov 12 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday lambasted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “threatening people” from abroad and said his government should step down on moral grounds after its “draconian”…
Kobe (Japan), Nov 12 (IANS) In his first comments after he announced the demonetisation move, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday acknowledged the hardship being faced by people in India but said more steps could…
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said around Rs 2 lakh crore has been deposited till 12.15 pm on Saturday in banks across the country, following demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs…
Washington, Nov 12 (IANS) Republican Donald Trump’s victory is the US presidential election has shattered the hopes and ignited fears amongst thousands of undocumented immigrants known as “dreamers”. They are the young people who were…
Washington, Nov 12 (IANS) US President-elect Donald Trump said while he called during the campaign for the scrapping of Obamacare, he would like to retain two important previsions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), media…
New York, Nov 12 (IANS) As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to move into the White House, one of the largest Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in the country has announced a parade in his honour, media…
New York, Nov 11 (IANS) Donald Trumps shock victory in the US elections has triggered a flood of calls on Twitter and other social media outlets for the President-elect to be assassinated — and authorities…
Mumbai, Nov 11 (IANS) In the first such tragedy, a retired senior citizen waiting in a queue to exchange demonetised notes died of a heart attack here on Friday afternoon. Officials and eyewitnesses said that…
New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) As soon as Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, he appeared to have lost over three lakh followers on Twitter but Delhi Chief…
New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) Information and Broadcasting Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said on Friday that demonetisation will provide a fillip to formal economy and severely hit funding for arms smuggling, espionage and terrorism. He…
New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday took people by surprise when he arrived at an SBI bank on Parliament Street here and stood in a queue to get the…
New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) The surprise demonetisation of high value denomination currency may lead to likely destruction of banknotes worth over Rs 3,35,000 crore while new notes worth Rs 1,34,000 crore may be added…