New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi on Friday announced that assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry will be held on May 16. Counting of votes in these states will…
Jamnagar, March 4 (IANS) India is considering manufacturing indigenously a second line of fighter aircraft and a decision on the issue will be taken within a year, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha said…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Elections to the 126-member Assam assembly will be held in two phases on April 4 and 11, the Election Commission said on Friday. “In the first phase, voting will be…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) The Election Commission on Friday announced a six-phase polling for the 294-member West Bengal assembly. Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi said West Bengal will see balloting on seven dates despite…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Assembly elections in Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry will be held in April and May, Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi announced on Friday. The Model Code of…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) The government has kept “adequate money” for the purchase of Rafale fighter jets from France while provisions have been made to continue the process of raising a mountain strike corps,…
Gurgaon, March 4 (IANS) At about 1.15 a.m. on Friday, Shipra Malik, who went missing on Monday from her home in Noida, knocked on the door of a villager in Haryana and told him she…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Digital fluency — the extent to which people embrace and use of digital technologies to become more knowledgeable — plays a key role in helping women to achieve gender equality,…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a plea filed by a former woman research analyst who has accused environmentalist R.K. Pachauri of sexual harassment to cancel the bail granted…
Chennai, March 4 (IANS) Promptly passing on the “infrastructure cess” proposed in the union budget 2016-17 to car buyers, several manufacturers have hiked the prices of their models effective March 1. Honda Cars India Ltd…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) In a yet another blow to Noida-based startup Ringing Bells Pvt. Ltd. that last month launched with much fanfare the world’s cheapest Rs.251 (less that $4) smartphone, domestic feature phone…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the CBI on the Delhi government’s plea seeking return of documents that the investigating agency had seized during the raid at the…
By Sarwar Kashani New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) On a dark Thursday night in the noisy JNU campus, when Kanhaiya Kumar called for azaadi, the student leader little known before his jail term on seemingly…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) The opposition in the Rajya Sabha on Friday united against the BJP-led government for its stand on the minority institution-character of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). Almost all opposition members were…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Friday flagged off two new trains – Kamakhya-Bhagat Ki Kothi (Jodhpur) Express and Siliguri-New Coochbehar, a new passenger service train, an official statement said here….
Kolkata, March 4 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday condoled the death of former Lok Sabha speaker P.A. Sangma. Sangma died of a heart attack on Friday morning. He was 68 years…
By Iboyaima Laithangbam Imphal, March 4 (IANS) The small but efficient Manipuri pony may soon be declared an endangered species like the brow-antlered deer. Both these animals are found only in Manipur. “In the livestock…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) None of the above (NOTA) will now have a symbol on the Electronic Voting Machines for the upcoming assembly elections in five states, Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi said here…
Mumbai, March 4 (IANS) A small Mumbai firm has been granting fully-paid ‘period leave’ to all its women employees since 2010 for both medical and religious reasons. Currently, there is only one woman employee working…
By Kavita Bajeli-Datt New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Mansav Sethi, an IT professional, is very excited. For the father of two children, a long weekend with his family is always a bonanza. As Holi this…