New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) The government has commissioned 1,780 km of rail lines and also completed over 6,000 km of highways in 2015-16 period, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement on Monday….
Damascus, May 30 (IANS) A new mass grave containing some 150 corpses bearing gunshot wounds and signs of torture, dumped reportedly by IS militants, were discovered during joint operations in Palmyra. It is the largest…
Tokyo, May 30 (IANS) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears likely to forgo a House of Representatives election in June despite calls for such a move from Finance Minister Taro Aso over the planned postponement…
London, May 30 (IANS) An Islamic State sleeper cell has plans to carry out attacks targeting English and Russian football fans at Euro 2016 during a match in Marseilles, data retrieved from the main Paris…
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo on Monday admitted that the electoral strategy in West Bengal “was not in consonance” with the party’s central committee decision. “With regard to…
Thiruvananthapuram, May 30 (IANS) The Congress party in Kerala has said that trouble has broken out in the less than one week old Left Democratic Front government between the two leading parties — Communist Party…
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) The opposition YSR Congress Party in Andhra Pradesh has accused Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu of running a “corrupt” government and “making a mockery of democracy” by engineering defections to…
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) Union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu will attend a three-day conference on Indias Smart City Mission to be held in Berlin to further cooperation with Germany and promote investments….
Amritsar: Punjab Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh visits the Golden Temple in Amritsar, on Dec 1, 2015. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) The time has come for the new generation to emerge in…
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh has suggested that the party high command should delegate more powers to the state leaders, especially to fight “regional leaders” in various states. “If…
Kuwait City, May 30 (IANS) Kuwait’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld the death sentence awarded to the main suspect of last year’s deadly bombing of a Shia mosque, the media reported. The court confirmed the…
Thiruvananthapuram, May 30 (IANS) The Congress in Kerala has no “issues of factionalism”, said party leader Ramesh Chennithala on Monday following his selection as the Leader of Opposition in the state assembly. “It was an…
Baghdad, May 30 (IANS) Iraqi security forces on Monday launched the final stage of an offensive aimed at freeing the city of Fallujah and nearby areas from the Islamic State (IS) militant group, security sources…
Panaji, May 30 (IANS) Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Monday that garbage management is one of the major scams in India but is still not being probed by the government auditors because of the…
Kathmandu, May 30 (IANS) Proceedings in Nepal’s parliament were on Monday obstructed by the main opposition Nepali Congress protesting vociferously over the alleged leakage of the contents of the annual budget, including its size, to…
Jerusalem, May 30 (IANS) The Israeli cabinet on Monday approved hardline lawmaker Avigdor Lieberman as defence minister, as his ultranationalist Yisrael Beytenu (“Israel Our Home”) party joined the ruling coalition. A statement by the Prime…
Kolkata, May 30 (IANS) BJP’s West Bengal unit president Dilip Ghosh on Monday again threatened to use strong-arm tactics against Trinamool Congress supporters if the ruling party did not end attacks on BJP workers in…
Agartala, May 30 (IANS) A two-day conference of Northeast India’s assembly speakers begins here on Tuesday to allow discussions on parliamentary democracy and an interaction between the presiding officers of the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha…
Kabul, May 30 (IANS) Afghan government forces have increased pressure on Taliban militants since the death of the group’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour as armed insurgents were killed across the militancy-plagued country over the…
Dhaka, May 30 (IANS) Fresh charges were pressed against Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Khaleda Zia and 26 others in two arson cases that took place in Dhaka in February and March last year. In both…