New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar has accepted his Pakistani counterpart Aizaz Chaudhry’s invitation for talks on Jammu and Kashmir, it is learnt. “In response to the invitation from the Pakistan Foreign…
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday made it clear in a series of tweets that India has had to shut down its embassy in war-torn Yemen and it is…
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) Social media giant Facebook’s Account Kit — a solution that helps users quickly authenticate people and create accounts to help grow an app’s audience — has seen a global growth….
Silvio Grocchetti & Charlie Moloney India has 47 million youth of secondary and higher secondary school-going age out of school, according to a report by the Montreal-based UNESCO Institute for Statistics and Global Education Monitoring….
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) In a blow to the Green Highways Policy of Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, the Finance Ministry has rejected his proposal which mandates that developers invest 1 per cent of…
Pune, Aug 17 (IANS) Renewable energy solutions provider Suzlon Energy on Wednesday said it has bagged an order from ReNew Power Ventures for supply of 48 units of hybrid towers and 15 units of tubular…
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) Former Union Minister Najma Heptulla has been appointed governor of Manipur, an official statement said on Wednesday. BJP leader Jagdish Mukhi has been appointed Lt. Governor of Andaman and Nicobar…
Mumbai, Aug 17 (IANS) The first “made in India” operating system Indus OS on Wednesday announced its partnership with PicsArt — a photo editing, drawing and collage-making app — to make it available in 12…
Srinagar, Aug 17 (IANS) Two soldiers and a policeman were killed in a pre-dawn attack on Wednesday when militants ambushed an Indian Army convoy on a highway in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district – the second…
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) Eighteen months after acquiring rival TaxiForSure for $200 million, cab aggregator Ola said it has decided to “integrate” the radio taxi service with its micro cab service after absorbing as…
Lucknow, Aug 17 (IANS) In a one-of-its-kind event, hundreds of widows from Vrindavan and liberated manual scavenger women on Wednesday publicly tied Rakhi to 50 upper caste sages, Sanskrit scholars and priests at the century-old…
Panaji, Aug 17 (IANS) The Congress here has welcomed the selection of Goa as a venue for the high profile BRICS meet later this year, state party president Luizinho Faleiro said on Wednesday. “Anything happening…
Patna, Aug 17 (IANS) As the toll in the mystery deaths in Bihar’s Gopalganj district climbed to 13 on Wednesday, opposition blamed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for the tragedy. “Three more people died on Wednesday,…
Lucknow, Aug 17 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday approved a Metro Rail project for Allahabad. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. Work is already underway…
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) A central minister’s wife has filed a complaint against one person for allegedly blackmailing her and demanding Rs 2 crore as extortion money, police said on Wednesday. The minister’s wife…
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) President Pranab Mukerjee on Wednesday greeted the people on the eve of Raksha Bandhan, and urged that on the occasion the people should resolve to ensure that women and girls…
By K.S. Jayaraman Bengaluru, Aug 17 (IANS) Developers of an arsenic water filter at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) are at pains to rubbish criticism that their device will require frequent replacement due to…
Attari (Punjab), Aug 17 (IANS) Union Minister for Food Processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Wednesday tied ‘rakhis’ to the Border Security Force (BSF) troopers deployed on the international border at Attari, 30 km from Amritsar….
By Ruwa Shah New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) If you are in love with the tandoor-fresh Mughlai cuisine of the local eateries in south Delhi’s Jamia Nagar but struggle to find a decent place to…
By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, Aug 17 (IANS) Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officials in Uttar Pradesh have begun to explore ways to help their former colleague, retired Coal Secretary H.C. Gupta, an accused in the multi-million…