Srinagar, Feb 7 (IANS) Flight operations were suspended on Thursday at the Srinagar airport due to poor visibility and heavy snowfall. “All flights to and from Srinagar were cancelled on Wednesday. No flight could land…
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) Facebook-owned WhatsApp is removing at least two million accounts each month for bulk or automated behaviour and over 75 per cent of those without recent user reports. According to the…
Lucknow, Feb 7 (IANS) Most parts of Uttar Pradesh woke up to heavy rains on Thursday morning, while the weather office announced that more heavy showers were in store. The present weather conditions would continue…
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the indigenously built Train 18, called the Vande Bharat Express, on February 15 from here, a Railway Ministry official said. Train 18, the…
Jammu, Feb 7 (IANS) The strategic Jammu-Srinagar highway remained closed for a second consecutive day on Thursday due to fresh snowfall and landslides in the area, traffic officials said. “No stranded vehicle is parked at…
Gurugram, Feb 7 (IANS) Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s gender equality campaign Beti Bachao Beti Padao (BBBP) launched in May 2015, there is an emerging trend of Sex Selection Drugs (SSD), for pregnant women looking…
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) A life-size portrait of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will be installed in the Central Hall of Parliament on February 12. Source said that President Ram Nath Kovind will…
Kolkata, Feb 7 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday wrote to Union Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha urging him to take steps to regularise wage payments to contractual workers working in BSNL. “Thousands…
Mumbai, Feb 7 (IANS) Private airline Jet Airways on Wednesday introduced a staggered framework to reward its domestic guests with substantially lower penalties in exchange for advanced intimation for changes in their bookings including cancellations,…
New Delhi Feb 7 (IANS) Rajasthan continues to remain worst hit with swine flu as the death toll hit 85, while 2,263 patients have been found positive with the influenza, according to National Centre for…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave its ex post facto approval to the revised Office Memorandum (OM) pertaining to the Cabinet Note on “Amendment of Constitution to provide for reservation…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) Four days after a Delhi court ordered Robert Vadra to join the Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigation, the brother-in-law of Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday afternoon appeared before the agency…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) Two days after new CBI Director Rishi Kumar Shukla took charge, the government on Wednesday shunted out two Deputy Inspector General (DIG) rank officials from the agency, including one whose…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) Bangladesh Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen will co-chair the Fifth Joint Consultative Committee meeting with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj here on Friday, an official statement said. Momen, who…
Kolkata, Feb 6 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said the state government has not received any notice from the Union Home Ministry for taking disciplinary action against Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between India and the United Arab Emirates on development cooperation in Africa. The MoU entails setting up of a…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Wednesday gave its proposal to Prasar Bharti’s “Broadcasting Infrastructure and Network Development” scheme for three years, distribution of 1,50,000 DTH sets in…
Gandhinagar, Feb 6 (IANS) Shops in Gujarat could be kept open round the clock, the state government announced on Wednesday. The decision will come into effect after a legislation in the upcoming ‘Vote on Account’…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday that Robert Vadra’s appearance before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is a success of democracy and a reflection of Modi government’s will…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the setting up of a circuit bench of the Calcutta High Court at West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri. The bench will have jurisdiction over four districts:…