London, April 12 (IANS) Nobel Peace Prize Winner Kailash Satyarthi, along with the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery will launch a report by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) aimed at eliminating…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) India has requested Hong Kong to arrest fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi and is awaiting for a response from the authorities there, a senior official said here on Thursday. “We have…
Chennai, April 12 (IANS) Amidst statewide protests, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to immediately set up the Cauvery Management Board. He presented a memorandum to Modi, who…
Mumbai, April 12 (IANS) After the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP), the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party was targeted on Thursday by its allies, Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Swabhimana Party (MSP) over the upcoming Nanar refinery…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday asked “how could anyone protect the culprits” in the rape and murder case of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir…
Shimla, April 12 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Thursday said the Suketi Fossil Park in Sirmaur district will be developed through Asian Development Bank (ADB) assistance. The government is also open…
Bengaluru, April 12 (IANS) Anguished over the acute shortage of doctors and lack of proper healthcare facilities in rural areas, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday called for public-private partnership (PPP) to provide affordable…
Panaji, April 12 (IANS) Supporters of Ryan de Souza, one of the two Goans sentenced to 517 years in jail in a Ponzi scam in Dubai, on Thursday urged External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the first health and wellness centre under the flagship Ayushman Bharat programme in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Saturday, an official said here. While the…
Chennai, April 12 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who faced a string of protests in Tamil Nadu on the Centre’s failure to constitute a Cauvery Management Board (CMB) on Thursday, avoided any reference to the…
By Natalia Ningthoujam New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Four times National Award-winning designer Neeta Lulla, who has worked on over 300 films, says she would like to make a romantic-comedy movie some day. In over…
Ghaziabad, April 12 (IANS) Over 200 journalists on Thursday took out a procession against the attack on television journalist Anuj Chaudhary and demanded the suspension of a Station House Office (SHO). Staging a protest at…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The Congress on Thursday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah for observing a “fake fast” and termed it as “PM’s fast of atonement”. It put out…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has sent out an advisory to the states for taking precautionary steps to prevent violence/vandalism in the run-up to Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s birth anniversary…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Dalit and civil society representatives on Thursday wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind and urged his intervention to ensure an end to suppression of Dalits and an ordinance to nullify…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Chinese handset maker Coolpad on Thursday launched “Coolpad A1” and “Coolpad Mega A4” budget smartphones in India, almost a month after it said that it is set for a new…
Panaji, April 12 (IANS) Goa’s three BJP MPs staged a protest here on Thursday as part of a nationwide stir called by the BJP against the disruption of Parliament’s budget session by opposition parties. The…
Shimla, April 12 (IANS) Over 100 cyclists will participate in the two-day Hero MTB Himalaya — Shimla edition race that will be flagged off from here on Friday, event organisers said on Thursday. For the…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Annoyed of train delays and inaccurate predicted time of arrival? RailYatri, a travel start-up, has suggested a technique to predict Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) using machine learning with precision…
Aizawl, April 12 (IANS) Over 100 militants of Hmar People’s Convention-Democratic (HPC-D) will surrenders with their weapons in Mizoram on Friday in line with a peace pact signed last week with the state government, an…