New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Google’s philanthropic arm Google.org on Friday announced grant funding of $8,00,000 to three Indian non-profit organisations to encourage and create more access and opportunity to people living with disabilities. The…
Bhubaneswar, March 4 (IANS) Essar Steel has emerged as the successful bidder in the first iron ore block auctioned by the Odisha government, an official statement said on Friday. The company has bagged the Ghorhaburhani-Sagasahi…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) AThe Supreme Court on Friday refused to pass any interim order on call drop issue as it will hold a hearing on March 10 on a plea by the associations…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar on Friday said that Hyderabad University research scholar Rohith Vemula was his icon and not parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. “If you…
Kolkata, March 4 (IANS) Within an hour after the election schedule was announced for West Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress on Friday released its list of candidates for all 294 assembly seats, re-nominating Saradha ponzi…
By Vishal Gulati Shimla, March 4 (IANS) The legislature and the judiciary in Himachal Pradesh seem to be on a collision course — literally. Defending their rights, members in the 68-seat assembly earlier this week…
By Sanu George Thiruvananthapuram, March 4 (IANS) As the Election Commission announced the date for elections to the new 140-member Kerala assembly, the stage is set for what many call a “game changer” polls in…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) The Election Commission here on Friday said all the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the upcoming assembly polls in five states will have a specially designed symbol for None of…
Agartala/Kohima/Guwahati, March 4 (IANS) With the issuance of a statutory notification on Friday for the March 21 elections to four Rajya Sabha seats from Assam, Tripura and Nagaland, lobbying has started in the three states…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (File Photo: IANS) Silchar, March 4 (IANS) Slamming the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Friday said “achhe din” will come only…
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…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to the Madhya Pradesh government over alleged police insensitivity and medical negligence towards a victim of a road accident in…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi mourned the death of former Lok Sabha speaker P.A. Sangma, who died of heart attack on Friday at the age of 68. “The nation had lost…
Gurgaon, March 4 (IANS) Reiterating the government’s determination to deal with the high level of over Rs.8 lakh crore of non-performing assets (NPAs), or bad debts, of state-run banks, Minister of State for Finance Jayant…
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,…