Lucknow: Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan addresses a press conference in Lucknow on Oct 5, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Lucknow, Dec 11 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh minister Mohd. Azam Khan has accused the US of pushing the…
Patna, Dec 11 (IANS) Former MP Mohammad Shahabuddin and three others were sentenced to a life imprisonment by a Bihar court on Friday for giving an acid bath to two brothers and murdering them 11…
Washington, Dec 11 (IANS) The US on Thursday returned 22 Chinese artifacts and a dinosaur fossil to China, highlighting the two world powers’ cooperation to counter illicit trafficking of archeological objects. “Their return to China…
Washington, Dec 10 (IANS) India and the US have agreed to further expand their growing defence partnership to make it what a top US official called an anchor of global security as he welcomed India’s…
Chennai: An aerial view of flood affected Chennai on Dec 7, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Chennai, Dec 10 (IANS) The floods that hit four districts in Tamil Nadu, claiming 347 lives and causing widespread damage, have…
Mumbai, Dec 10 (IANS) A court here accepted on Thursday the request of Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist David Coleman Headley, currently imprisoned in the US, to turn approver and depose in the 26/11 case in return…
Patna: Bihar Minister Ashok Choudhary addresses a press conference in Patna on Dec 10, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Patna, Dec 10 (IANS) Bihar will use social network Facebook to help students appearing for the Class 10…
Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) The Election Commission on Thursday said central police forces would man all polling booths during next year’s West Bengal assembly elections. The requisition and deployment of the central forces would be…
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) With an eye to the 2016 assembly elections in West Bengal and Kerala, the BJP is all set to effect a change of guard — RSS men Dilip Ghosh and…
(Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Asking the opposition Congress to fight the National Herald case legally and not to disrupt parliament, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday that Congress leaders have to…
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai on Thursday announced that 6,000 extra public transport buses will be run in the city from January 1 to 15, when the government plans to…
Panaji, Dec 10 (IANS) Facing flak from the opposition over his birthday celebrations, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday urged the public to not spend money on flowers and newspaper ads and instead contribute to…
Pyongyang, Dec 10 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has admitted for the first time that Pyongyang possesses a hydrogen bomb, state-owned media reported on Thursday. “The state managed to become a powerful nuclear power…
Tripoli, Dec 10 (IANS/AKI) The leader of the Islamic State (IS) terror group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has “fled” to Libya and is based in the group’s stronghold of Sirte. According to a report on Wednesday,…
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Britain has announced around 300 new scholarships worth over 1.5 million pounds during 2016-17 for Indian students opting for studies in Britain. “Around 300 new scholarships for Indian students will…
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha witnessed repeated disruptions for the third day on Thursday over the National Herald case with Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi urging the chair…
Washington, Dec 10 (IANS) Visiting Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and US Defence Secretary Ash Carter are holding talks here Thursday focusing on strengthening and deepening defence cooperation under the US-India strategic partnership. Carter, who…
Tamil Nadu: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, during his visit to flood affected areas in Tamil Nadu on Dec 3, 2015. (Photo: IANS/PIB) New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) AIADMK…
New York, Dec 10 (IANS) In what could be seen as a reply to the US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the US, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has welcomed…
A day after spurious liquor took the lives of five people in Vijayawada, YSR Congress Party president Jaganmohan Reddy on Tuesday called for total prohibition in Andhra Pradesh. “Gujarat government has been successfully implementing total prohibition in the…