New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday greeted the people on the harvest festivals of their respective regions. On the auspicious occasion of Baisakhi, my greetings…
Thiruvananthapuram, April 13 (IANS) Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Wednesday attacked the Left for trying to score brownie points following the horrific tragedy in a Kerala temple. Chandy was reacting to the remarks by CPI-M…
Thiruvananthapuram, April 13 (IANS) Three Kerala ministers will head a team of experts to study the destruction caused to civilian property due to the deadly fireworks show at a temple in Kollam. Chief Minister Oommen…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) The wife of slain NIA officer Tanzil Ahmad succumbed to her bullet injuries at the AIIMS here on Wednesday — 10 days after unidentified assailants waylaid the couple and pumped…
Chennai, April 13 (IANS) Spanish sanitaryware company Roca is planning to increase exports out of India as the cost of manufacturing in the country has become competitive, said a top official. “Manufacturing in India has…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday met former French president Nicolas Sarkozy who has come on a visit to India. Always time for an old friend of India. EAM…
Thiruvananthapuram, April 13 (IANS) Three Kerala ministers will lead a team of experts to study the destruction civilian property suffered due to the deadly fireworks display at a temple in Kollam. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy…
By Vishal Gulati Shimla, April 13 (IANS) Half of the students in 20 percent government schools of Himachal Pradesh had failed their class X exams and 14 percent the class XII exams in 2014-15, an…
Kaziranga (Assam), April 13 (IANS) Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, toured Assam’s famed Kaziranga National Park on Wednesday and excitedly clicked photographs when they spotted one-horned rhinos, elephants, swamp…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) India on Wednesday sought the “earliest possible” repatriation of the mortal remains of an Indian held in a Pakistan prison who died on Monday. Our acting high commissioner met DG…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) The union cabinet on Wednesday observed two-minutes’ silence in memory of those killed in the fire tragedy in Kerala’s Kollam district on Sunday. “The union cabinet meeting today morning began…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) With a barrage of smartphone health apps being launched globally — claiming to go beyond fitness or calorie checkers and spot mental illnesses or respiratory diseases –…
Lucknow, April 13 (IANS) After 43-days of nationwide strike against the excise fees levied, Uttar Pradesh jewellers opened their shops on Wednesday. Confirming the end of the strike, officials at Uttar Pradesh Sarrafa Association said…
Kolkata, April 13 (IANS) From arranging curd rice for bears, to setting up shades, authorities at the popular Alipore Zoo here are taking extra care to keep its inhabitants stress-free as the mercury soars, an…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) Farzana Khatoon, the wife of slain NIA officer Tanzil Ahmad, succumbed on Wednesday to her injuries at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here. Ahmad was killed on…
Chennai, April 13 (IANS) India unlike many other economies in the Asia Pacific region may not be hit majorly by lower remittances from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region following slump in oil prices, credit…
By Karishma Saurabh Kalita New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) “Mexican food is just not a plate of nachos with a heap of toppings; it is so much more than that,” says Neeti Goel, owner of…
Kollam (Kerala), April 13 (IANS) While the seven arrested committee members of the Kerala’s Puttingal Devi temple in Paravur town have been remanded to judicial custody, a woman committee member and a few others are…
Lucknow, April 13 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh Police has announced a Rs.2 lakh reward on information about Muneer, the prime accused in the murder of NIA official Tanzeem Ahmad, an official said on Wednesday. While…
By Vikas Datta Title: The Story of Alice – Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland ; Author: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst; Publisher: Vintage/Random House India; Pages: 490; Price: Rs.599 It was the peak of the…