Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Dr. Karan Singh at the convocation of Banaras Hindu University (BHU), in Varanasi on Feb 22, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Varanasi, Feb 22 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has declined…
Kabul, Feb 22 (IANS) At least six civilians were killed in Afghanistan’s Takhar province as an explosive device went off in a house, police said on Monday. All the victims in Sunday’s blast belong to…
Srinagar, Feb 22 (IANS) Security forces and separatists fired at each other on Monday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pampore town where a group of armed militants has been holed up for three days, police said….
Rohtak: People from Jat community stage a demonstration to press for Special Backward Class (SBC) status in Rohtak on Feb 20, 2016. (Photo: IANS) By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Feb 22 (IANS) For a state promoting…
(Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine the swearing in of Kalikho Pul as new chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh. The apex court constitution bench headed by…
Cairo, Feb 22 (IANS) The Syrian government has condemned the terrorist attacks that hit the Shia district of Sayyidah Zaynab, on the outskirts of Damascus and the Al Zahraa district in Homs, north of Damascus,…
Srinagar, Feb 22 (IANS) Intermittent exchange of fire began Monday morning between holed up militants and the security forces in Pampore town of Kashmir where a group of heavily armed guerrillas is holed up for…
Sydney, Feb 22 (AFP) Australia today said an asylum-seeker baby doctors had refused to discharge from hospital is expected to be returned to a remote Pacific detention camp, as a deterrent to people-smugglers. Under Canberra’s…
Ramallah, Feb 22 (IANS) The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met US Secretary of State John Kerry in Amman and told him the Palestinian leadership was working with the international community to hold an international peace…
Phnom Penh, Feb 22 (IANS) Thailand’s Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn arrived here on Monday on a three-day visit to boost relations in education and health between the two neighbouring countries. The princess was greeted by…
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday urged the Narendra Modi government to get the Munak canal started in Haryana, saying the national capital had “completely run out of water”….
Rashtriya Lok Samata Party chief Upendra Kushwaha. (File Photo: IANS) Surat, Feb 21 (PTI) Union Minister of State for HRD Upendra Kushwaha today termed the quota agitations by various communities including the Jats in Haryana…
Jerusalem, Feb 22 (IANS) Israel and the US started a joint exercise on Sunday focusing on defence against the threat of ballistic missiles, the Israeli army said. The US European Command and the Israeli Defence…
Kolkata: Congress workers take out a protest rally to show solidarity with JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar – who was arrested on a sedition charge; in Kolkata on Feb 20, 2016. (Photo: Kuntal Chakrabarty/IANS) Kolkata,…
Chandigarh, Feb 21 (IANS) The Haryana government on Sunday ordered the transfer of Rohtak’s Inspector General of Police Shrikant Jadhav, whose area of responsibility encompasses Rohtak, Sonipat, Panipat and Jhajjar, the districts worst-hit by violence…
Cairo, Feb 21 (IANS/EFE) A Syrian man helped his 15-year-old son, who has been fighting among jihadists for a year, carry out a suicide attack in the Syrian city of Aleppo, and recorded a video…
Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal (Photo: IANS/PIB) Dubai, Feb 21 (IANS) Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Sunday invited investors from UAE as well as around the world to invest…
Rohtak: People from Jat community stage a demonstration to press for Special Backward Class (SBC) status in Rohtak on Feb 20, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi/Chandigarh, Feb 21 (IANS) With near anarchy gripping Haryana, the…
Union Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs M. Venkaiah Naidu (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) BJP president Amit Shah on Sunday constituted a committee led by Urban…
New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli on Sunday said his visit to India was very successful and his government was ready to address any genuine problems concerning the Constitution. Addressing…