Moscow, March 31 (IANS) Russia on Thursday denied media reports that Moscow and Washington had reached an agreement on ousting Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. “The difference between the Russian side and other countries lies in…
Panaji, March 31 (IANS) Goa will get a full-fledged convention centre by 2019 to host the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar said on Thursday. Around two lakh square metres of…
New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) The Congress on Thursday said Pakistan’s insistence that Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar was not involved in the Pathankot attack was a “major embarrassment for India”. “Pak JIT led by ISI,…
New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) The Congress on Thursday said it will move court if the Centre issues an ordinance to nullify the budget already passed by the Uttarakhand assembly. “We have got to know…
Islamabad, March 31 (IANS) Islamabad on Thursday asked Tehran to probe and share with it details of the activities in Iran of alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, who has been arrested in Pakistan. The Pakistan…
Kolkata, March 31 (IANS) West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi on Thursday sought a report from the Mamata Banerjee government over the flyover collapse in the city that so far has claimed 14 lives. A large…
Kolkata, March 31 (IANS) Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has directed the armed forces to provide all assistance in the rescue operations underway at the site of the under-construction flyover’s collapse in Kolkata. Defence ministry spokesperson…
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien at the Parliament in New Delhi, on Aug 12, 2015. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) The Ethics Committee of the Lok Sabha has sought CDs and…
Islamabad, March 31 (IANS) At least five people were killed and several injured in a blast inside a vehicle on Kashmir Road in a southern district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan on Thursday. Security personnel…
Srinagar, March 31 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is demanding from its ally Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) an equal share in Jammu and Kashmir’s new government and also a free hand in the administration…
New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, March 31 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday held separate meetings with three top leaders of Kerala — Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala and state Congress chief V.M. Sudheeran…
Ranchi, March 31 (IANS) A Jamshedpur court on Thursday acquitted Chief Minister Raghubar Das in a case of violation of the model code of conduct. Das and three Bharatiya Janata Party workers were accused of…
New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) BJP legislator Om Prakash Sharma was on Thursday suspended for the next two sessions of the Delhi assembly following an amended report of the Ethics Committee which probed his alleged…
Shimla, March 31 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh assembly on Thursday passed the 2016-17 budget and the appropriation bill authorising the Virbhadra Singh government to spend Rs.34,738.72 crore from the state’s consolidated fund. The Rs.1,421.87-crore deficit…
Patna, March 31 (IANS) A day ahead of a liquor ban from April 1 in Bihar, authorities destroyed more than 13 lakh bottles of liquor worth over Rs.3 crore here on Thursday, officials said. “We…
New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday expressed grief over the death of 14 people in a flyover collapse in Kolkata and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is visiting…
Imphal, March 31 (IANS) Insurgent group People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) on Thursday claimed responsibility for an attack at an Assam Rifles post near the Manipur capital on Wednesday night. A press release issued…
New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) The Election Commission on Thursday issued instructions to provide a complaint redressal mechanism in each of the five poll-bound states. The mechanism will manage written complaints as well as those…
Patiala (Punjab), March 31 (IANS) Asserting that Punjab did not have even a single drop of water to spare for other states, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday said the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal…
Congress chief Sonia Gandh (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday expressed shock and anguish over the flyover collapse in Kolkata, in which 14 people were killed. “Extending her…