Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan (Photo: IANS/PIB) Ahmedabad, March 21 (IANS) Amid a controversy over the issue of reservation for weaker sections in the country, union minister Ram…
Hyderabad, March 21 (IANS) A lawyer has been arrested for stealing law books and citations from Hyderabad High Court, police said on Monday. G.G. Venugopala Krishna admitted that he had been stealing law books, journals…
Howrah: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee with Vaishali Dalmiya, daughter of Jagmohan Dalmiya and cricketer turned politician Laxmi Ratan Shukla during an election campaign in Howrah of West Bengal on…
Congress leader Manish Tewari addresses (Photo: Kuntal Chakrabarty/IANS) New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) A day after a union minister’s praise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as god’s gift, the Congress on Monday took a potshot…
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) The next phase of the odd-even formula aimed at battling pollution in Delhi will be launched from April 15 to 30, and 400 ex-servicemen will be recruited to help enforce…
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the capital’s three civic bodies to pay sanitation workers their salaries for February by March 29. A division bench of Chief Justice G….
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) A delegation of BJP leaders, headed by general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, on Monday met President Pranab Mukherjee and sought dismissal of Uttarakhand government led by Chief Minister Harish Rawat. However,…
Imphal, March 21 (IANS) Thounaojam Herojit, a former Manipur Police commando accused of killing two people in a staged gunbattle, on Monday appeared in court and pleaded for a fresh investigation. Then head constable Herojit…
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) With Holi just round the corner, e-commerce companies are busy making their own ideas on how to cash in on this festival fever. “This year Holi is followed by Good…
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) Bharti Airtel announced on Monday that it has entered into an agreement with American Tower Corporation (ATC) to sell around 1,350 of its communications towers in Tanzania. The agreement was…
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) The government on Monday launched Bedaquiline, an exclusive drug to tackle drug-resistant TB cases in the country, among several other initiatives against the disease. According to the union health ministry,…
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said those who did nothing for the country since Independence spread lies on the issue of reservation whenever the BJP came to power at…
New Delhi: JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar addresses media at JNU in New Delhi on March 4, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) A court here on Monday sought an action taken report from…
Agra, March 21 (IANS) Five students of the Central Hindi Institute here accused of eating beef have been identified but officials denied the charges saying they were now on a holiday. The alleged ‘beef-eating’ photos…
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) A court here on Monday asked for the balance sheets of the Congress, and the Associated Journals Pvt Ltd (AJL) for the year 2010-2011 in connection with the National Herald…
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. (File Photo: IANS) Shillong, March 21 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday admitted that there was a need to strengthen security along the international border in the northeastern…
Sujanpur (Himachal Pradesh), March 21 (IANS) The four-day Holi celebrations in this town, which traces its origin to erstwhile Katoch dynasty ruler Sansar Chand, began on Monday, as Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh inaugurated the festival….
Ludhiana, March 21 (IANS) All the over 130 patients had a narrow escape when a private cancer hospital caught fire on Monday in Punjab’s Ludhiana district. Flames engulfed parts of the Mohan Dai Cancer Hospital…
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) The Congress on Monday released its second list of 57 candidates for the second phase of elections to the Assam assembly. The list includes the names of incumbent Akon Bora…
Hyderabad, March 21 (IANS) Safe Water Network (SWN) and Honeywell India on Monday announced the launch of the 25th Honeywell-funded iJal safe water station in Telangana to mark the World Water Day. Built over the…