Hyderabad, Oct 16 (IANS) Two Chinese companies on Friday signed MoUs with Telangana government for setting up a prefab concrete manufacturing factory and for dry port solutions. The MoUs with Sany International Housing and Sany…
Hyderabad, Oct 16 (IANS) A man from West Bengal who was allegedly planning to start a madarsa for ‘Jihadi training’ has been arrested, police said on Friday. Alimul Islam Mandal was arrested when he…
Washington, Oct 16 (IANS) The White House has teamed up with a Sikh and an Asia Pacific community group to launch a public awareness campaign to address bullying in six languages including Hindi, Punjabi and…
Washington, Oct 16 (IANS) Upset over the ground rules for the next Republican presidential debate, frontrunners Donald Trump and Ben Carson are threatening to boycott the Oct 28 showdown on CNBC unless the debate format…
Washington, Oct 15 (IANS) Saying that pressure from Pakistan has resulted in more Al Qaeda coming into Afghanistan, President Barack Obama announced Thursday that US forces will remain in Afghanistan at their current levels throughout…
Chennai, Oct 15 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Thursday urged her Andhra Pradesh counterpart N. Chandrababu Naidu to arrange legal aid for Tamil Nadu labourers lodged in Andhra jails. In a letter…
Hyderabad, Oct 15 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday unveiled a statue of late former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at the Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL) here. After unveiling the bronze…
Hyderabad, Oct 15 (IANS) YSR Congress president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy has asked Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu not to invite him to the foundation stone laying ceremony of the new state capital. In…
Jerusalem, Oct 14 (IANS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday sought to convey how close he was to India and its leadership, calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “friend”, whom he was in regular…
Hyderabad, Oct 14 (IANS) As many as 45,000 chemist shops in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh remained closed on Wednesday in response to a call for nationwide shutdown to protest the online sale of drugs. The…
New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday announced that the government will start de-classifying files related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose from January 23 – his birth anniversary. Modi said this…
Mumbai, Oct 14 (IANS) After missing a chance to address a rally in Bihar due to an “overwhelming turnout” because of which his chopper couldn’t land, actor Ajay Devgn feels the organisers were not prepared…
New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) In a measure of relief to the fertiliser industry, a cabinet panel on Wednesday approved a special banking arrangement for a loan of Rs.7,000 crore for payment of outstanding subsidy…
New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the lynching of a Muslim in Dadri and the cancellation of Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali’s concert in Mumbai were both “saddening and undesirable”….
Photo Credit: CNN Washington, Oct 14 (IANS) As Democratic presidential candidates faced off for the first time, frontrunner Hillary Clinton, without offering any specifics, said she would be different than President Barack Obama, but closest…
Damascus, Oct 14 (IANS) The Islamic State (IS) militant group on Tuesday called for a jihad against Russia and the US for their “crusader’s war” in the Middle East. In an audio message, the group’s…
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “silence” along with the silence of institutions like the Sahitya Akademi is permitting a new “degree of thuggish violence” in India, said celebrated author Salman Rushdie….
Chandigarh, Oct 13 (IANS) Amid the growing number of litterateurs giving up their literary awards over growing intolerance and attempts to muzzle freedom of speech and expression, eminent Punjabi writer Dalip Kaur Tiwana on Tuesday…
Hyderabad, Oct 13 (IANS) Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar will rename the country’s key missile complex here after noted scientist and former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on his birth anniversary on October 15, an official statement…