By Imran Khan Patna, March 13 (IANS) The high level of arsenic in ground water is causing and spreading cancer on either side of the Ganga in Bihar, according to experts. The most affected are…
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing, March 13 (IANS) In a crackdown against polluting industries, China shut down 20,000 plants and got $654 billion as fine from polluters in 2015. The amount is 34 percent more than…
Jammu, March 13 (IANS) Landslides in Ramban district of Jammu region on Sunday forced closure of the strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway which was briefly restored for traffic on Saturday, an official said. “Intending travellers should…
By Iboyaima Laithangbam Imphal, March 13 (IANS) In a bid to dispel the image of a state in permanent conflict situations, several individuals and NGOs in Manipur are trying to showcase the northeastern border state…
Chandigarh, March 13 (IANS) Standing wheat crop was damaged in hundreds of acres of agricultural fields in Punjab and Haryana due to unseasonal rainfall accompanied with high velocity winds over the past 24 hours. The…
By Vikas Datta A long-running Indian TV game show about a group of disparate people consciously living under the continuous view and direction of an omniscient but unseen observer may make for entertainment for some…
New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Sunday morning here with minimum temperature recorded at 16.8 degrees Celsius, a notch above season’s average. “There will be thundershowers with possibility of hail to…
Mumbai, March 13 (IANS) Actor Jimmy Sheirgill says the Indian film industry does not encourage movies made for children and that it is important to support such films to help them relate to important issues….
Kolkata, March 13 (IANS) The disputes over seat adjustments between the Left Front and the Congress persisted on Saturday, with the latter announcing that it will contest in all the 32 assembly seats where it…
New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) The AYUSH ministry on Saturday expressed “anguish” at the mischievous misinformation being spread in a section of media and social media and termed as “fabricated” a purported RTI reply that…
New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) A day after the Lok Sabha approved a bill according statutory backing to Aadhaar, a finance ministry official on Saturday said direct benefit transfer (DBT) of fertiliser subsidy will be…
New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) Showers lashed the Art of Living’s World Culture Festival on the Yamuna flood plain here for the second consecutive day while union ministers Rajnath Singh and Sushma Swaraj lauded Sri…
New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) The central government is likely to soon launch a mechanism under which various developmental projects in the northeastern states could be monitored through satellite images, it was announced on Saturday….
New Delhi: World Culture Festival organised by the Spiritual Leader and Founder of the “Art of Living Foundation“ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar underway on the banks of Yamuna in New Delhi on March 12, 2016….
New Delhi/Lucknow, March 12 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee will visit Uttar Pradesh on Sunday to inaugurate the 150th anniversary celebrations of the Allahabad High Court, a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement said. He will be accompanied by…
Bengaluru: JDS supremo HD Deve Gowda. (Photo: IANS) Bengaluru, March 12 (IANS) The Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) supported industrialist Vijay Mallya in becoming a Rajya Sabha lawmaker twice since he is from Karnataka, former prime minister…
Porbandar (Gujarat), March 12 (IANS) The Indian Coast Guard on Saturday added a new ship to its fleet here to ramp up security along the 1,600-km coastline of Gujarat. The ship C-156, built by Bharti…
Kolkata, March 12 (IANS) The CPI-M-led Left Front, while it is yet to finalise its tie up with the Congress, on Saturday extended support to the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) in the West Bengal assembly…
New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) The Rs.40,000 crore sovereign wealth fund, National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), will get a CEO in the next few weeks, Minister of State of Finance Jayant Sinha said on…
New Delhi: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing at the inaugural ceremony of the World Culture Festival in New Delhi on March 11, 2016. (Photo: (IANS/PIB) New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath…