New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) The Indian Army Motor Sports Team, led by Lt. Col. Shakti Bajaj, is participating in the 14th edition of Rally Desert Storm that commenced from Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh area on Monday….
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has generated more than 100 crore (one billion) Aadhaar numbers in a span of five and a half years, Communications Minister Ravi Shankar…
Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) Polling came to an end on Monday evening in 18 assembly constituencies in the Maoist-affected western districts of West Bengal. While the scheduled time for conclusion of polls was 4 p.m….
Lucknow: JD-U chief Sharad Yadav addresses a press conference in Lucknow, on Jan 31, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) Janata Dal United (JD-U) president Sharad Yadav on Monday stepped down from the…
Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) Repairs to the famed Jagannath temple in Odisha’s Puri are needed immediately to prevent collapse of certain parts of the 12th century shrine, warned a former IIT-Kharagpur faculty member who is…
Lucknow, April 4 (IANS) A special CBI court on Monday sentenced 47 Uttar Pradesh policemen of various ranks to life imprisonment in a 1991 staged gun battle case in Pilibhit. These policemen were on Friday…
Mumbai, April 4 (IANS) Widespread expectation of an interest rate cut by RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan at the new fiscal’s first bi-monthly monetary policy review on Tuesday swelled equity markets in the last hour of…
Hyderabad, April 4 (IANS) The Telangana government on Monday signed a series of MoUs with various IT companies, mobile phone and electronic manufacturers. As many as 28 agreements were signed at the launch of state’s…
Thiruvananthapuram, April 4 (IANS) Ahead of the Kerala assembly polls, a group of medical activists on Monday appealed to all political parties to include tobacco control as a public health measure in their election manifestos….
Dharamsala, April 4 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will interact with educationists at the University of Delhi in the national capital for five days from April 6 to finalise a draft curriculum for…
AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. (File Photo: IANS) By V. Jagannathan Chennai, April 4 (IANS) Tamil Nadu’s ruling AIADMK will field a record highest 227 candidates in the assembly elections, with…
Kochi, April 4 (IANS) The Kerala High Court on Monday came down heavily over wastage of its time, and dismissed a plea by prime accused Saritha Nair for a CBI probe against Chief Minister Oommen…
Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, which came third in the HRD ministry’s ranking of engineering institutes in the country, on Monday said it lost out mainly due to its faculty-student ratio….
Jabalpur, April 4 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta (ombudsman) police on Monday conducted searches at the residence of a state government clerk and detected assets disproportionate to his known income, including two houses and three…
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) A majority of the banks in India favour a Banks Board that can help mitigate and manage the risks of the banking industry, according to a survey conducted by KPMG….
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) A fleet of ships from the Indian Navy’s First Training Squadron berthed at Phuket in Thailand on Monday. The squadron’s primary aim is to impart at-sea training to naval and…
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) Over 2,600 GB of data comprising more than 11 million documents about some 214,000 hidden offshore companies owned by prominent people, including some from India, together make up for one…
Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) Braving the sweltering heat, over 75 percent of the 40 lakh electorate turned out to vote on Monday in the first phase of the assembly polls in 18 constituencies in the…
Kochi, April 4 (IANS) In a game of one-upmanship in Kerala’s Congress circles, the name of Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy’s closest aide Benny Behanan was axed from the list of assembly aspirants by the…
Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra, who is the Trinamool Congress’ candidate from Khardaha in North 24 Parganas, possesses assets in excess of Rs.7.50 crore. Mitra, whose annual income for the…