Kolkata, April 3 (IANS) Under the shadow of the purported Narada sting operation and the city flyover tragedy, the month-long West Bengal assembly polls kick-start on Monday with the Mamata Banerjee-led ruling Trinamool Congress facing…
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh police are working “on all angles” to find out the motive behind the killing of NIA officer Tanzil Ahmad, who was shot 21 times in an attack by…
Kolkata, April 3 (IANS) A city court here on Sunday sent top Maoist leaders Bikas Hembram and his wife Tara to 14 days police custody. Claimed to be once close to now slain rebel chieftain…
Imphal, April 3 (IANS) Maoist insurgents on Sunday said they lobbed a grenade at the residence of a medical college professor here to express their disgust with “rampant corruption” in the institute. The attack on…
Kolkata, April 3 (IANS) More and more women are taking up an active entrepreneurial role in solar power projects at the grass roots in India, says The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) director general Ajay…
Guwahati, April 3 (IANS) Assam will hold the first phase of assembly polls on Monday for 65 constituencies to decide the fate of 539 candidates. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is seeking a mandate for…
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said imposition of excise duty on jewellery items will bring back Inspector Raj in the…
Jammu, April 3 (IANS) As officials at the Jammu and Kashmir Raj Bhavan and the civil secretariat skipped their Sunday holiday to address protocol and legal issues related to Monday’s swearing-in of an elected government,…
Srinagar, April 3 (IANS) A policeman was critically injured when he was fired at by separatist guerrillas on Sunday in Pulwama district of Kashmir. “A head constable of police identified as Muhammad Shafi was injured…
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) India has secured the release of four Indians arrested in Syria for entering the war-torn nation without valid travel documents. External Affairs…
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi, now on a visit to Saudi Arabia, will on Tuesday launch a scheme to promote entrepreneurship among the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes and women with loans in…
By Iboyaima Laithangbam Imphal, April 3 (IANS) There had always been a love-hate relationship between Ahom and Kangleipak kingdoms, the old names of Assam and Manipur. They went to war numerous times. But there were…
Imphal, April 3 (IANS) Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh is expected to leave for Delhi on Monday morning to hold a crucial meeting with the Congress president Sonia Gandhi on the cabinet reshuffle demand….
By Ankush Vats New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) As India strives to achieve greater gender equality, in a remote village in Odisha a community radio is striving to bring about positive change – breaking an…
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday asked the Jammu and Kashmir authorities to ensure safety of students at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar where clashes erupted between…
By Preetha Nair New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) The new Pakistani woman is changing the face of the country and her status is undergoing a drastic makeover, says 24-year-old author Kanza Javed, who recently released…
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday termed the killing of inspector Tanzil Ahmad in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district as a “planned attack”. “In an planned attack, NIA inspector Tanzil…
By Vikas Datta Remember “Ghostbusters”? The 1984 film about three parapsychologists taking on supernatural phenomenon in New York sparked off a whole universe of spin-offs across various media – a reboot version comes out in…
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) The national capital witnessed the hottest morning of the season till date on Sunday, with the minimum temperature of 24.8 degree celsius, six notches above the season’s average. It may…
Lucknow, April 3 (IANS) A National Investigation Agency (NIA) inspector was shot dead by unidentified assailants while returning from a wedding in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district, police said on Sunday. Tanzil Ahmad, deputy superintendent of…