Beirut, March 10 (IANS) At least eight Islamic State militants were killed in clashes with Lebanese military on Thursday, media reports said. One government soldier was killed and eight others were injured on the outskirts…
V S Achuthanandan (left); Pinarayi Vijayan. New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, March 10 (IANS) The CPI-M on Thursday gave the nod to both former chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan and his rival Pinarayi Vijayan to contest the coming assembly…
Srinagar/New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday prayed for the speedy recovery of senior Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani shortly after he was admitted in…
Lahore, March 10 (IANS) The national cricket team may depart for the World Twenty20 tournament in India on Friday. According to a report by Geo TV, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is likely to allow…
Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs, and Information and Broadcasting Arun Jaitley (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) The government on Thursday said “every possible action will be taken” against beleaguered liquor baron Vijay…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) The upcoming assembly elections in five states will “have a bearing on the future course of national politics”, the CPI-M said on Thursday. An editorial in the CPI-M journal “People’s…
Panaji, March 10 (IANS) The Congress party on Thursday demanded that Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar must apologise to the armed forces for making them build infrastructure for the Art of Living event in the national…
Kolkata, March 10 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday attacked the Congress and the CPI-M, saying both parties have given up their ideologies and adopted the other’s. “CPI-M has given up its…
Patna, March 10 (IANS) There was an uproar in the Bihar legislative assembly on Thursday as legislators slammed Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray and demanded action over his remarks to burn auto-rickshaws of non-Marathis…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) may ban the controversial Art of Living (AoL) cultural event here if it doesn’t pay up the Rs.5 crore fine slapped on it, a lawyer…
By Vivian Fernandes The union agriculture ministry headed by Radha Mohan Singh has notified a sharp, 70 percent reduction in fees payable to Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech (MMBL) for its patented cottonseed technology, disregarding the companys threat…
Lucknow, March 10 (IANS) A Samajwadi Party legislator, Mohammad Irfan, was killed on Thursday along with his driver and a party leader when their car met with an accident in Uttar Pradesh, police said. Irfan,…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Assassinating former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was the Tamil Tigers’ biggest mistake, a new book quotes the late LTTE ideologue Anton Balasingham as saying. Balasingham told Norway’s former Special…
Hyderabad, March 10 (IANS) Telangana, India’s youngest state, is targeting to achieve 15 percent growth rate in 2016-17 to emerge as the number one state in the country. Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan stated this in his…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani suffered a minor heart attack on Thursday and has been admitted to a hospital here, his spokesman said. “It was a minor heart…
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said that key documents related to the Ishrat Jahan case have gone missing from his ministry…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani suffered a minor heart attack on Thursday and has been admitted to a hospital here, his spokesman said. “It was a minor heart…
Mumbai, March 10 (IANS) The cross-examination of Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist-turned-approver in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case, Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley, will start before a special court on March 22 for four days, a legal official…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) A successful Bharatnatyam dancer and Bollywood’s evergreen ‘Dreamgirl’, Hema Malini, who became a BJP MP in 2004, says that she got “more respect” as a member of parliament than being…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said that key documents related to the Ishrat Jahan case have gone missing from his ministry. “Two letters from the then home secretary to…