Guntur, Oct 12 (IANS) YSR Congress party president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy’s condition deteriorated further on Monday as he continued for the sixth day his indefinite fast to demand special category status to Andhra Pradesh. The…
Hyderabad, Oct 12 (IANS) The Taj Falaknuma here has been awarded number one position among the best palace hotels in the world category for 2015 by the world’s leading travel and tourism website – Trip…
Varanasi, Oct 12 (IANS) Phil Scanlan, a member of a US delegation in India to assess NGO Sulabh’s work, on Monday lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Swaccha Bharat’ initiative, saying it has made India cleaner…
Los Angeles, Oct 12 (IANS) Steven Tyler is threatening to sue Donald Trump over the use of Aerosmith’s song “Dream on”. On Saturday, the Aerosmith frontman sent a ‘cease and desist’ letter to the Republican…
Patna, Oct 12 (IANS) Tens of thousands voted or stood in serpentine queues at polling booths on Monday in the first round of assembly election in Bihar — the country’s biggest popularity test since the…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) GMR Infrastructure announced on Sunday its subsidiary Kakinada SEZ Pvt Ltd has signed an agreement with Japan’s JGC Corporation for co-developing an export-oriented food processing park at its Kakinada Special…
Vijayawada, Oct 11 (IANS) The indefinite fast by YSR Congress party president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy for special status to Andhra Pradesh entered its fifth day on Sunday. A large number of party workers gathered at…
Kathmandu, Oct 11 (IANS) Communist leader Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli was on Sunday elected prime minister of Nepal — the first premier of the Himalayan nation after the September 20 promulgation of a federal constitution….
Hyderabad, Oct 11 (IANS) Five members of a family attempted suicide and two of them died in Telangana’s Mahabubnagar district on Sunday, police said. The incident occurred in Gollapalli village. A land dispute is believed…
Islamabad, Oct 11 (IANS) The US has given Pakistan $265 million during the current fiscal year under Foreign Military Financing (FMF) for capacity enhancement in counter terrorism and counter-insurgency, revealed a US State Department report….
Washington, Oct 11 (IANS) Defence officials from the US and Russia held a video conference on Saturday to discuss safe flight operations over Syria, the Pentagon confirmed. “The discussions were professional and focused narrowly on…
Haveri (Karnataka), Oct 10 (IANS) Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday secured a special relief package from his party-ruled Karnataka government for distressed farmers, reeling under drought, crop failure and a spate of suicides. “The…
Narendra Modi is probably learning the veracity of Stalin’s insightful aphorism that while one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic. In a country which has seen innumerable communal riots over the decades,…
Washington, Oct 10 (IANS) With enormous progress in India-US relationship since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power, the US says it looks forward to its further deepening and becoming more productive. “There’s been enormous…
Hyderabad, Oct 10 (IANS) The day-long shutdown called by the opposition parties in Telangana over farmers’ issues on Saturday evoked partial response in the state. The opposition parties are demanding the government to implement…
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) About one-third of the candidates for the second phase of the Bihar assembly polls have declared their criminal cases, with the BJP, JD-U and RJD fielding the maximum number of…
Washington, Oct 9 (IANS) Overtaking China, India is expected to grow at 7.3 percent in 2015, rising to 7.5 percent in 2016, the International Monetary Fund forecast Friday lowering its April projections by 0.2 percentage…
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) The Congress alleged on Friday that Rs.6,000 crore of “black money” had been sent out of the country from a public sector bank months after the NDA government came to…