By Sidhartha Dutta New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) The audit report of the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board, or Vyapam as it is popularly known, for the year 2011-12, showed that there was a huge…
(160220) — CARACAS, Feb. 20, 2016 (Xinhua) — A sanitary employee fumigates against Aedes aegypti mosquito, the vector of zika virus, in Antimano sector of Caracas, capital of Venezuela, on Feb. 19, 2016. A Municipal…
Kathmandu, March 20 (IANS) Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli on Sunday started a week-long official visit to China. This is Oli’s first official visit to China since he assumed the prime minister’s office on…
Washington, March 20 (IANS) Dozens of protestors blocked traffic near an event by US presidential hopeful Donald Trump in Arizona, while demonstrators marched in New York City to protest the front-runner, the media reported on…
Thiruvananthapuram, March 20 (IANS) The complete list of candidates of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) for the assembly elections in Kerala would be ready in the first week of April, said Chief Minister Oommen…
Dharamsala, March 20 (IANS) Tibetan exiles across the world on Sunday voted to elect their nominees for the post of ‘Sikyong’ or prime minister and the members of the parliament-in-exile based here. Long queues of…
Astana, March 20 (IANS) Voters across Kazkhstan on Sunday began casting their ballots in early legislative elections to choose a new parliament. Polling stations opened at 7.00 a.m., EFE news agency reported. There are 234…
Mogadishu, March 20 (IANS) Islamist militants Al-Shabaab on Sunday claimed to have killed 12 Kenyan soldiers and captured two others in an ambush in Qoqani village in Lower Jubba region of southern Somalia. The soldiers…
Imphal, March 20 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi has summoned the Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh and Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam in connection with the unflinching stand of the dissidents within the ruling Congress….
Brussels, March 20 (IANS) The key suspect of Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, was charged on Saturday with “terrorist murders and participation in the activities of a terrorist group”, said the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office in…
Dehradun/New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Uttarkhand Governor K.K. Paul on Saturday asked Chief Minister Harish Rawat to prove his majority by March 28 even as the BJP sought dismissal of the minority Congress government while…
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Sedition is being camouflaged as freedom of speech and BJP will not tolerate it, party president Amit Shah said on Saturday and urged party workers to create “awareness” across the…
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Grand Mufti of Egypt Shawki Allam has said that instilling the concepts of true Sufism was the first step in the effort to defeat terrorist ideology that “operates under the…
Dehradun: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat arrives to attend a cabinet meeting in Dehradun on March 19, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Dehradun, March 19 (IANS) Uttarakhand Governor K.K. Paul on Saturday asked Chief Minister Harish Rawat…
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called for raising farm income through diversification in farming activities, urged all stakeholders including states to take a resolve to double the income of…
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) The Election Commission on Saturday held a meeting with six recognised national and 29 state political parties here to discuss issues related to electoral reforms and conduct of elections. The…
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) The BJP on Saturday invoked the issue of ‘nationalism’, as its two-day National Executive began here, and categorically stated that the party was not going to tolerate criticism of the…
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Union Agriculture Radha Mohan Singh on Saturday asserted that present stock of wheat with the Food Corporation of India is higher than stocking norms and incorrect information is being publicised…
Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) The Election Commission on Saturday said Rs.1 crore has been seized across districts of poll-bound West Bengal in the last 18 days. The seizures were done by flying and static squads…
Shimla, March 19 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Saturday suspended one-year sentence awarded to Congress legislator Asha Kumari in a land grab case dating back to 1998. Hearing the plea of the Dalhousie…