Shillong, April 13 (IANS) India’s northeastern states and Bangladesh shook on Wednesday evening after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar, officials said. The tremors were felt at 7.25 p.m. with its epicentre in the Myanmar-India…
Handwara: People in large numbers participate in the funeral of 21-year old Nayeem Bhat who was killed after clashes erupted in Handwara town between the security forces and a stone pelting mob; in Handwara of…
Ranchi, April 13 (IANS) A Class 10 girl student was attacked with acid when she was sleeping in her school hostel in Jharkhand’s Giridih district, police said. According to police, the attack took place at…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) The reverse auction by state-run generator NTPC for 500 MW capacity at Pavagada Solar Park in Karnataka has secured bids for tariffs below Rs.5 per unit, with Finland’s Fortum securing…
Guwahati, April 13 (IANS) Tremors shook Assam’s main city Guwahati and adjoining areas on Wednesday evening, causing minor damage to some high rise buildings here, after a 6.8 earthquake hit Myanmar. The Regional Meteorological Centre…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) Information and Broadcasting Secretary Sunil Arora, against whom bailable arrest warrant was issued by the Press Council of India (PCI), has now been asked to appear before the panel on…
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) The odd-even vehicle scheme could be enforced for a fortnight every month in the national capital if the second phase beginning from…
Panaji, April 13 (IANS) With summer lurking around the corner, Goa’s Environment and Forest Minister Rajendra Arlekar on Wednesday appealed to people to start putting out bowls of water for birds and stray animals to…
Kolkata, April 13 (IANS) Strong tremors shook eastern India, including Kolkata and Guwahati, on Wednesday evening after a powerful earthquake hit northwest Myanmar.
Ahmedabad, April 13 (IANS) A sessions court in Gujarat’s Amreli district on Wednesday sentenced Bharatiya Janata Party’s Amreli MP Naran Kachhadiya to three years’ imprisonment in an assault case. The court also convicted four others,…
Chennai, April 13 (IANS) The DMK on Wednesday named 173 candidates for the May 16 assembly elections, fielding Simla Muthu Chozhan against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. Announcing the list of candidates, the DMK…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) A handful of Tibetan refugees followed their deposed ruler, the Dalai Lama, to India in 1959 with nothing in their hands. Decades later, this nation has emerged as the largest…
Chennai, April 13 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Wednesday pledged to ensure that the gas pipelines of GAIL (India) were not laid over farmlands. Addressing an election rally at Dharmapuri, around 300…
Women cover their faces to avoid direct contact with sun on a hot day. (File Photo: IANS) Bhubaneswar, April 13 (IANS) Most parts of Odisha continued to reel under a severe heat wave on Wednesday,…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) Delhi Police will be formally writing to Delhi Metro about the security lapse that led to a Rs.12 lakh robbery at a station, a senior officer said on Wednesday. “We…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) Twenty-five key commodities, including wheat, paddy, maize, onion, jowar, bajra, groundnut, potato, soyabean and mustard seed, have been selected for e-trading under the National Agriculture Market e-market platform to be…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) Britain’s exit from the European Union would be a “very bad thing” for Europe and have disastrous consequences for the country itself, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday….
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) The Congress on Wednesday lambasted the Modi government for allegedly not ensuring sufficient relief to the drought-affected states and said it is more interested in taking credit for whatever little…
New Delhi/Srinagar, April 13 (IANS) A young man was killed on Wednesday in a clash between police and a group of protestors, who were agitated over three civilian deaths in an alleged firing by security…
Hyderabad, April 13 (IANS) AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday said the U-turn by the NIA in the Malegaon blast case was a “joke and travesty of justice”. The Hyderabad Lok Sabha member accused the…