New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) Former India cricketer, pacer Sreesanth features in the Bharatiya Janata Party’s third list of candidates for the Kerala legislative assembly elections. The list released on Friday shows Sreesanth as the…
Agartala, April 8 (IANS) Hours after Tripura’s Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Sudip Roy Barman resigned over his party’s alliance with the Left Front in West Bengal, four other Congress leaders on Friday quit party…
New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) The Congress on Friday said that the BJP-led government’s foreign policy had dismantled the entire matrix of India’s strategic and diplomatic advantage over Pakistan. The Congress said it was time…
Rohtak, April 8 (IANS) A court here on Friday directed Haryana Police to probe a “hate speech” allegedly made by yoga guru Ramdev in which he suggested that those refusing to say ‘Bharat Mata Ki…
Chennai, April 8 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa will begin her campaign for the May 16 assembly elections from here on Saturday. She also changed three more AIADMK candidates. Fielding a record 227…
Damascus, April 8 (IANS) At least 175 of the 300 workers kidnapped by the Islamic State are believed to have been killed in a town northeast of the capital Damascus, the media reported on Friday….
By Nirendra Dev New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) The Left Front may be huffing and puffing but the BJP, desperate to make a mark in West Bengal, is realising that Bengali votes may be culturally…
New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) Former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa was appointed chief of the party in Karnataka, BJP general secretary Arun Singh said on Friday as the party decided on state heads here….
Lucknow, April 8 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday appointed Keshav Maurya as its next president of the Uttar Pradesh unit. He will succeed Laxmikant Bajpayi. Maurya is a Lok Sabha member from…
Ranchi, April 8 (IANS) The opposition parties in Jharkhand and a partner of the ruling BJP are finding fault with the domicile policy announced by the state government on Thursday. “It’s not in the interests…
Nay Pyi Taw, April 8 (IANS) The newly-installed democratic government in Myanmar on Friday freed hundreds of people as part of a nationwide release of prisoners ahead of Thingyan, the Burmese New Year Water Festival….
Srinagar, April 8 (IANS) At least two civilians were injured in Bijbehara town of Kashmir on Friday when militants lobbed a grenade at an army convoy. “Militants hurled a grenade at a passing army convoy…
Tokyo, April 8 (IANS) The Group of Seven foreign ministers, during a meeting in Hiroshima, are to call on countries to resolve territorial disputes peacefully in accordance with international law in what will be seen…
Srinagar, April 8 (IANS) Three Jammu and Kashmir police officers took to Facebook to say they don’t need any certificate of nationalism from anyone in the country. Reacting to criticism of the force following unrest…
Cairo, April 8 (IANS) At least four soldiers and one officer were killed and 11 others injured in two separate explosions in Egypt’s restive Sinai peninsula, official sources said. Two armoured personnel carriers were hit…
Bengaluru : BJP leaders Ananth Kumar, B. S. Yeddyurappa, Pralhad Joshi during a demonstration to demand withdrawal of the newly created Karnataka Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Bengaluru, on March 28, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New…
Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs, and Information and Broadcasting and BJP leader Arun Jaitley. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party on Friday reiterated its demand for union Finance…
London, April 8 (IANS) British Prime Minister David Cameron has been accused of “hypocrisy” after admitting that he owned shares in the Panamanian trust set up by his late father Ian Cameron, before selling them…
Kolkata, April 8 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday filed her nomination papers for the state assembly elections from the Bhowanipore constituency in South Kolkata district. A large…
Pakistani ghazal singer Ustad Ghulam Ali. (File Photo: IANS) By Prashant Kumar New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) Pakistani ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali has urged the people and the governments of India and Pakistan to “keep…