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…
By Praveen Davar Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, whose 125th birth anniversary falls on April 14, has emerged as one of India’s most revered leader especially during the last two decades. No political party can afford to…
Imphal, April 13 (IANS) Several social organisations are striving for the restoration of communal harmony in the wake of clashes and attacks in some parts of Manipur’s Imphal west and Thoubal districts. The present friction…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) India has asked its envoy in Pakistan to take up at the “highest possible level” with their foreign office the issue of early transportation of mortal remains of an Indian…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) It was a sunny Wednesday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 23.2 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average, the Met Office said. According…
Mumbai, April 13 (IANS) Key Indian stock market indices were trading significantly higher on Wednesday morning, cheered by the news a day earlier from official agencies that factory output was back on the growth path,…
Mumbai, April 13 (IANS) A benchmark index of Indian equities markets, the 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), on Wednesday was trading 279.50 points or 1.11 points higher during the morning session. The wider 50-scrip Nifty of…
Srinagar, April 13 (IANS) The toll from a firing incident in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district rose to three on Wednesday as another critically injured civilian has died, officials said. Doctors at the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute…