By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Nov 15 (IANS) This is one issue on which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is divided. It has taken three different stands on the sharing of Punjabs river waters with neighbouring…
New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) Catering to the requests of its over a billion users, instant messaging app WhatsApp launched its video calling feature which will be rolled out from Tuesday. The feature will be…
New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) Axis Bank, India’s third largest private bank on Tuesday announced partnership with a Singapore-based fintech platform to launch intelligent banking chat bots that will bring mobile banking services for its…
Jammu, Nov 15 (IANS) Schools located in border areas of Jammu and Kashmir which were ordered to shut after Pakistani shelling reopened on Tuesday, officials said. Authorities shut down 174 schools in villages close to…
Agartala, Nov 15 (IANS) Datamohan Jamatia was reinstated by the Tripura High Court a year after he was removed as law secretary for allegedly making “derogatory remarks” about the judiciary, an official said here on…
New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court will hear a plea seeking criminal contempt proceedings against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and the Deputy Chief Minister for their public pronouncements that they will…
New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government on a plea challenging a state law that allots bungalows to former Chief Ministers on their request. Justice…
Ahmedabad, Nov 15 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother Heerabaa Modi on Tuesday exchanged demonetised currency for Rs 4,500 at a bank in Gandhinagar in Gujarat. Wearing a white cotton sari, Heerabaa, in her 90s,…
New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) Long queues were seen outside banks and ATMs on Tuesday as many anxious customers waited for the sixth consecutive day to deposit or exchange their spiked currency or take out…
New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday chaired a meeting at 10, Janpath here to discuss the strategy ahead of the winter session of the Parliament which begins on Wednesday. Congress…
Lucknow, Nov 15 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav flagged off the India-Myanmar-Thailand Friendship Motor Car Rally on Tuesday. This rally began on Sunday starting from New Delhi and would conclude on December 3…
Pune (Maharashtra), Nov 15 (IANS) The recent demonetisation has hit some trades below-the-belt. These include the commercial sex workers and transgenders of Pune and other parts of the Maharashtra. Dependent and functional purely on cash…
By Amit Kapoor The past week has been momentous with two important events: the election of Donald Trump as the 45th US President and the Indian governments decision to demonetise the Rs 500 and Rs…
By Bhaswati Mukherjee On November 9 the unthinkable happened after the most polarised election in US history. With the so-called swing states – Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania -choosing Donald Trump, the so-called Clinton Firewall was…
By Vikas Datta Title: Love and Revolution: Faiz Ahmed Faiz – The Authorised Biography; Author: Ali Madeeh Hashmi; Publisher: Rupa Publications India; Pages: 320; Price: Rs 599 We can make out a poet’s capabilities and…
New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) It was a clear Tuesday morning here, marked with shallow fog. The minimum temperature was recorded at 12.1 degrees Celsius, one below the season average. According to the India Meteorological…
Shillong, Nov 15 (IANS) A moderate earthquake, measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale, rocked the northeastern states on Tuesday, an official said. There were no reports of any casualties or damage. The tremor was felt…
New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) The Congress on Monday termed the demonitisation policy a “mere note-change” policy while noting that the new notes introduced by the government have “no new security features”. “If the earlier…
New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) A 40-year-old property dealer was shot dead by two unidentified assailants in his own house on Monday while his wife was critically injured in the attack, police said. The incident…
Kolkata, Nov 14 (IANS) A whopping Rs 4.5 lakh monthly stipend has been offered to a first-year student of post-graduate diploma in management at the IIM-Calcutta in the latest summer internship placement, the institute said…