United Nations, Dec 22 (IANS) The US President Barack Obama will open a high-level meeting on refugees in September 2016 at the United Nations, when world leaders will be here to attend the annual debate…
Los Angeles, Dec 22 (IANS) Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump may affect the sales of rapper Rick Ross’s “Black Market” album. According to some reports, American multinational retail corporation Walmart has now stopped selling Ross’s…
Hyderabad, Dec 21 (PTI) In the wake of the call money racket issue that rocked the state in recent weeks, Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly today passed a bill aiming to regulate the private money lending…
New Delhi, Dec 21 (PTI) India is expected to offer a site in Andhra Pradesh to set up units five and six of Kudankulam nuclear power plant by Russia in sync with broad principles of…
Kuala Lumpur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses at a Community Programme, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Nov 22, 2015. (Photo: IANS/PIB) New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has said that there…
Washington, Dec 21 (IANS) US Senator Lindsey Graham on Monday announced he was quitting the Republican Party’s race for the White House in 2016, due to continued low support. Graham, a senator from South Carolina,…
Patna: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav addresses during a programme in Patna on Sep 22, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Lucknow, Dec 21 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday asked his chief secretary…
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) The Congress will finalise its stance on the Juvenile Justice Bill on Tuesday but said some provision must be made to deal with brutal cases like the gang rape of…
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday favoured the presidential form of government in the country, adding but it should be “customised in a way that it preserves the rich diversity…
Kolkata, Dec 21 (IANS) Seeking to dispel the theory that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose lived as a hermit till 1985, a family member on Monday asserted that the nationalist leader could not have chosen renunciation…
Kolkata, Dec 21 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take up the issue of declassifying secret Russian files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his upcoming visit to Moscow, a…
Delhi: Father of the Dec. 16 gang-rape victim during a press conference in New Delhi on Dec. 16, 2015. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) The parents of ‘Nirbhaya’ on Monday led a massive…
Kochi, Dec 21 (IANS) Hindu Ezhava leader Vellapally Natesan, who was booked by Kerala Police for a communal speech, on Monday filed a petition in the high court seeking anticipatory bail. The court will hear…
Mumbai: Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali during the trailer launch of film Bajirao Mastani in Mumbai, on November 20, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai, Dec 21 (IANS) Congress legislator Nitesh N. Rane on Monday asked the…
Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) Noted lawyer Ram Jethmalani will defend Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the defamation suit filed by union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in…
Kabul, Dec 21 (IANS) The Afghan National Directorate of Security said troops arrested a suicide bomber, thwarting his plans to attack the Indian consulate in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, local officials said…
Mumbai, Dec 21 (IANS) The Indian Christian Voice on Monday protested what it terms “a deliberate insult” to the Christians by apex trade body Assocham that failed to include any speaker from the community for…
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) The Congress on Monday demanded a parliamentary probe into alleged DDCA irregularities and sought the resignation of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who had been long at its helm, rejected the…
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley addressing the annual general meeting of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in New Delhi on Dec. 19, 2015. (Photo: Sunil Majumdar/IANS) New Delhi,…
Chandigarh, Dec 21 (IANS) The public in Haryana may not have ever heard of it but the then Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda saw “huge public interest” being served in re-allotting a prime piece…