Rome, Feb 23 (IANS/AKI) Thousands of people faced travel disruption on Thursday after troubled Italian airline Alitalia announced it was cancelling 60 percent of its flights due to a one-day stoppage by unions. Domestic and…
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) The government on Thursday reduced the number of registers to be maintained under the labour laws from 56 to five for about 5.85 crore establishments in a major step aimed…
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) The CPI-M on Thursday issued a “public warning’ to its Rajya Sabha member Ritabrata Banerjee for threatening a party supporter who had raised questions in the social media about the source…
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) The BJP on Thursday said that Congress has been hit by a ‘tsunami’ in the wake of revelations on “illicit cash for favours” in a diary allegedly containing names of…
Chandigarh, Feb 23 (IANS) Top INLD leaders were among scores of persons arrested on Thursday on the Haryana-Punjab border at Shambhu, 10 km from Ambala in Haryana, as they drove to the spot as part…
Islamabad, Feb 23 (IANS) Afghan Ambassador Omar Zakhilwal on Thursday called for reopening of the border that Pakistan closed a week ago due to a series of terrorist attacks that killed over 100 people in…
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) A day after fierce clashes broke out between two student groups in Delhi University, on Thursday the ABVP raised nationalism slogans and vowed that it would not allow “anti-nationals” into…
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Thursday recommended that the Delhi Police register a case against Safdarjung Hospital after a woman alleged she delivered twins but was handed over…
Mumbai, Feb 23 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena on Thursday finished neck-to-neck and were engaged in a tussle on Thursday to control India’s richest and biggest civic body, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation….
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) The CPI-M on Thursday issued a “public warninga to its Rajya Sabha member Ritabrata Banerjee for threatening a party supporter who had raised questions in the social media about the source…
Panaji, Feb 23 (IANS) All opposition parties in Goa, barring the AAP, on Thursday asked the Election Commission to scrap the long postal ballot process, claiming the 35 days allotted for doing so was detrimental…
Islamabad, Feb 23 (IANS) Hours after Pakistan was hit by another bomb blast, army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Thursday said that despite internal security threats the army was fully prepared for an effective…
Lucknow/New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Over 61 per cent voters exercised their franchise on Thursday across 53 seats in the fourth phase elections to the Uttar Pradesh assembly. The voting percentage is likely to go…
Imphal, Feb 23 (IANS) Irom Sharmila’s People’s Resurgence and Justice Alliance (PRAJA) on Thursday released its manifesto for the upcoming state assembly elections here on Thursday, promising that it will work for the revocation of…
Mumbai, Feb 23 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the Bharatiya Janata Party team in Maharashtra after it notched spectacular victories, bagging eight of the 10 major civic bodies here on Thursday. “Through hard work,…
Ahmedabad, Feb 23 (IANS) Gujarat OBC SC/ST Ekta Manch convenor Alpesh Thakore was on Thursday detained by police as he was on his way to Sanand to lock down the Tata Nano car plant as…
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Delhi Police on Thursday suspended three policemen on charges of assaulting some students and journalists when two student groups clashed at the Ramjas College here a day earlier. “We have…
Lucknow, Feb 23 (IANS) Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Thursday hit back at BJP president Amit Shah calling him the “country’s biggest Kasab” or a terrorist. A day after Shah coined the acronym…
Bengaluru, Feb 23 (IANS) AIADMK General Secretary V.K. Sasikala may opt for shifting to Central Jail in Chennai from the Bengaluru jail on age and health grounds, a party official hinted on Thursday. “It is…
Islamabad, Feb 23 (IANS) Pakistan on Thursday said the enemy was taking advantage of the turmoil in Afghanistan and using its soil to orchestrate terrorist attacks in the country. “Terrorism is a common enemy of…