New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The city government has decided to revive Naini lake in Model Town locality of north Delhi. Delhi Tourism Minister Kapil Mishra discussed with North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) mayor Ravindra…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday stayed the notification on imposition of 14 percent service tax on senior advocates and issued notice to the central government. A division bench of…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Friday slammed Darul Uloom Deoband for opposing the chanting of ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ which the seminary says amounts to worshipping a goddess. “Opposing…
Shimla, April 1 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Friday expressed displeasure over the state government’s status report on jaundice outbreak and directed the chief secretary to file another report on the steps taken…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) : After his mammoth human Garuda, sculptor Arun Pandit is back with a power show titled ‘Power and Pathos’ slated to begin from Saturday. Curated by art critic Uma Nair,…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday greeted the people of Odisha on Utkal Diwas. “On Utkal Diwas, I convey my greetings to the kind and industrious people of Odisha and…
Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) Veteran CPI-M leader V.S.Achuthanandan on Friday dismissed as a “bluff” the ongoing tiff between Kerala’s top Congress leaders who are staying put in Delhi to finalise candidates. “What’s happening in…
New Delhi: Social Scientist Yogendra Yadav joins protest to condemn the “institutional killing” of 26-year-old scholar of the University of Hyderabad (UoH), Rohith Vemula at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, on Feb 23, 2016. (Photo:…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) Citing ambiguity on the enforcement of 85 percent pictorial warnings on packets of all tobacco products, the Indian tobacco industry announced on Friday that it will halt production of all…
Lucknow, April 1 (IANS) The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday sought the Uttar Pradesh government’s response to a petition filed over the three-month extension granted to Chief Secretary Alok Ranjan. Hearing…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) Haryana on Friday told the Supreme Court that 2004 Punjab law terminating all water sharing agreements with neighbouring Haryana, Rajasthan, and Delhi breached principles of separation of powers and was…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) India and Saudi Arabia will seek to elevate their strategic partnership to a more broad-based one, with the focus on energy and security…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) Indian banks can reduce per-transaction costs by up to 50 percent in the next few years by going digital, an Assocham-PwC study said on Friday. “Banks will have to make…
New Delhi/Chennai, April 1 (IANS) Automobile manufacturers closed March 2016, also the final month of fiscal 2015-16, on a positive note with most of them logging sales growth. The industry is also hopeful of softening…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) With Tamil separatism crushed, one of Sri Lanka’s oldest Tamil militant groups-turned-party has decided to shed from its name the words “Eelam” and “Liberation”. One of the two factions of…
Bhubaneswar, April 1 (IANS) As Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik hailed the Odisha Police for its drive against the mafia and anti-social elements, the Congress state unit on Friday accused certain ruling BJD leaders of having…
Panaji, April 1 (IANS) Beaches in Goa will soon be WiFi-enabled and also covered by closed-circuit television, Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar said on Friday. The state, known for its beach and nightlife, had tapped into…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission on Friday issued notices to the commerce and health ministries over reports that India has reassured the US-India Business Council to take a restrained approach…
Bengaluru, April 1 (IANS) The Karnataka government has permitted leading private eye care hospital Narayana Nethralaya to use the premises of state-run hospitals across the state for eradicating infant blindness, a top executive said on…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) A sessions court here has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for fatally stabbing a woman neighbour he was obsessed with after her marriage was fixed elsewhere. Convicting Rohit, in…