By Vikas Datta Title: Against Elections – The Case for Democracy; Author: David Van Reybrouck; Publisher: Bodley Head/Random House India; Pages: 208; Price: Rs 499 Democracies, at a time when they predominate both across the…
New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday departed for Vientiane, Laos, where he will attend the 14th India-Asean Summit and the 11th East Asia Summit. “Another one for Acting East. Flurry…
New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday left the national capital for Laos to attend the 14th India-Asean Summit and the 11th East Asia Summit. Modi will be attending the annual…
New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday greeted the government and the people of Brazil on their Independence Day. “Warm greetings to government and people of Federative Republic of Brazil on their…
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. (File Photo: IANS) Brasilia, Sep 7 (IANS) Brazil’s deposed president, Dilma Rousseff, left the capital city of Brasilia to return to her adopted hometown of Porto Alegre. A few dozen supporters…
Washington, Sep 7 (IANS) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said leaks on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and other American politicians were coming “reasonably soon” and that information “teases” could drop as early as next week….
Washington, Sep 7 (IANS) Republican and Democratic Senate leaders on Tuesday have again blocked a $1.1 billion plan to fight the Zika virus for the third time blaming the each other for inaction on critical…
Srinagar, Sep 7 (IANS) Three soldiers were injured on Wednesday when militants attacked an army convoy in Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Police said militants attacked the convoy at Kralgund near Handwara town. Out of the three,…
Miami, Sep 7 (IANS) US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday in Tampa that the campaign of her Republican rival, Donald Trump, is “one long insult to all those who have worn the…
United Nations, Sep 7 (IANS) The UN Security Council on Tuesday condemned the recent ballistic missile launches conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). On Monday, DPRK fired three ballistic missiles into eastern…
Ankara, Sep 7 (IANS) Two Turkish soldiers were killed and five others were injured on Tuesday when their tanks came under Islamic State (IS) attack in Syria, the Turkish military said. The attack occurred south…
Warsaw, Sep 7 (IANS) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said here on Tuesday he would not meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow on September 9 as had initially been planned, the Polish Press…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. (File Photo: IANS) Washington, Sep 7 (IANS) As many as 88 retired US military generals and officials on Tuesday issued an open letter to bolster Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump,…
New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) “Very little” has been done to settle riot-affected people of Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts of Uttar Pradesh, who continue to live in inhuman conditions even after three years of the…
Bengaluru, Sep 6 (IANS) The Karnataka government on Tuesday agreed to release 15,000 cusecs of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu daily for 10 days from Wednesday as directed by the Supreme Court. “Despite severe hardship…
Panaji, Sep 6 (IANS) The manner in which AAPs’ Delhi government tackled the case of its now former minister Sandeep Kumar, who has since been arrested for rape, only goes to show that the party…
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 6 (IANS) The crisis in Jammu and Kashmir is deep-rooted and the only way out is a political solution, said a MP who was part of the all-party delegation to the state led…
Chennai, Sep 6 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday effected a major reshuffle of administration, transferring over 20 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers. According to the orders issued by the government, in addition to…
Vientiane, Sep 6 (IANS) Barack Obama, who became the first sitting US President to visit Laos, arrived here on Monday to attend a series of Asian summit meetings this week. The landlocked country of 6.8…
Damascus, Sep 6 (IANS) A British monitoring group denounced a chemical attack perpetrated by the Syrian Army on Tuesday. According to EFE news, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said forces loyal to President Bashar…