New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The government does not intend to constitute national heritage sites commission, parliament was told on Monday. Culture and Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma told the Lok Sabha in a written reply,…
Guwahati, March 14 (IANS) The AIUDF of Lok Sabha member Maulana Badruddin Ajmal has offered its workers insurance against election-related violence in Assam. All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) leader and Lok Sabha member from…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Pakistan former ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani will not attend ‘Spring Fever’, touted as one of Delhi’s oldest literary and cultural festival, which begins on Tuesday, said organisers. Citing…
Kolkata, March 14 (IANS) In the wake of a sting operation claiming several leaders of West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress purportedly accepting bribe, the opposition Left Front on Monday demanded the Election Commission to initiate…
Kolkata: BJP leaders Siddharth Nath Singh and Dilip Ghosh show videos from a sting operation conducted on Trinamool leaders during a press conference in Kolkata, on March 14, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Kolkata, March 14…
Bhopal, March 14 (IANS) A Dalit student pursuing M.Phil at the Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication here on Monday accused its authorities of harassing more than 100 students belonging to the weaker…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The Ethics Committee of the Rajya Sabha on Monday took cognizance of the issue of Vijay Mallya, an independent member of the upper house and business tycoon accused of defaulting…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The government has sought reports from states about damage to crops following heavy rainfall and hailstorm in some parts of northern India, union Minister Radha Mohan Singh said on Monday….
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday pitched for more funds to the Indian Railways to improve its infrastructure across the country. “It’s a subject which needs lots of money,”…
Gurgaon, March 14 (IANS) A 26-year-old woman was on Monday arrested for creating ruckus and abusing staff at the office of the Gurgaon Police Commissioner alleging that police refused to act on her complaint. The…
Chennai, March 14 (IANS) Police on Monday detained four of the suspects accused of hacking to death a young Dalit man who married an upper caste girl, who herself narrowly survived the brutal assault in…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday asked the central government as to why it was not making functional or upgrading its own vaccines manufacturing units, and instead procuring the vaccines from…
By Sanu George Thiruvananthapuram, March 14 (IANS) Pulluvila, a sleepy hamlet located close to the airport here, has earned a place for itself on the global sanitation map — it boasts of the worlds first…
Mumbai: File photo of Ishrat Jahan who was named as a suicide bomber for the terror outfit Laskhar-e-Taiba by David Coleman Headley during his video-link deposition at TADA court in Mumbai on Feb. 11, 2016….
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) A high-level inquiry committee, constituted by the Jawaharlal Nehru University to investigate the February 9 happenings on the campus, on Monday found 21 students guilty of violating rules and norms…
Mumbai, March 14 (IANS) For the first time in the history of Indian Railways, the Konkan Railway Corporation has started live music performances at the Madgaon station in Goa to entertain passengers and tourists, an…
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis during the press conference to announce Satyamev Jayate Water Cup in Mumbai on Feb 17, 2016 (Photo: IANS) Mumbai, March 14 (IANS) The BJP’s election promise of making Maharashtra…
By Vishal Gulati Manali, March 14 (IANS) When seven students of an engineering college opted for the hills of Himachal Pradesh for an excursion, little did they realise they were seconds away from a disaster….
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) A court here on Monday granted bail to three retired officials of the passport department in a fake passport case against underworld don Rajendra Sadashiv Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan. Central…
Shimla, March 14 (IANS) Former union minister and Congress leader Anand Sharma was on Monday declared elected to the Rajya Sabha unopposed from Himachal Pradesh. State assembly secretary S.L. Verma declared Sharma elected after the…