Wardha (Maharashtra), Oct 2 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “betraying the people by making false promises” ahead of the 2014 general elections. Addressing the ‘Gandhi Sankalp Rally’…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Tuesday embarked on a humanitarian relief mission to help Indonesia that has been hit by an earthquake and tsunami in which more than 1,200…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) The Congress on Tuesday dubbed the Modi government “arrogant and barbaric” over the police crackdown on protesting farmers on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border even as party President Rahul Gandhi flayed…
Wardha (Maharashtra), Oct 2 (IANS) The Congress on Tuesday called for a “new freedom struggle” to combat the Modi governments politics of threat and intimidation as well as politics of polarization and divisiveness. The Congress…
Jalalabad (Afghanistan), Oct 2 (IANS) At least 13 people were killed and 30 others were wounded after a suicide bombing ripped through an election rally in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province on Tuesday, officials said. The bombing…
San Francisco, Oct 2 (IANS) Google will contribute $1 million (nearly Rs 7 crore) towards relief and restoration work in Indonesia which was hit by a 7.5-magnitude quake and an ensuing tsunami that has claimed…
Srinagar, Oct 2 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik was detained in Srinagar on Tuesday to prevent an anti-poll campaign. Police detained Malik at his party office in Abi Guzar locality…
Agartala, Oct 2 (IANS) A 40-year-old CPI-M newspaper in Tripura, “Daily Deshar Katha”, has been ordered closed by the government on technical grounds, leading the Marxists to accuse the state’s BJP government of committing an…
Kochi, Oct 2 (IANS) Veteran Malayalam film personality Thampi Kannanthanam passed away on Tuesday at a private hospital near here after several days of illness, the film fraternity said. He was 65. Kannanthanam was a…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that Swachh Bharat Mission has turned into the worlds biggest mass movement on sanitation and has given a mantra of 4Ps for a…
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 2 (IANS) Kerala musician and violinist Balabhaskar, who was seriously injured in a road accident last week, died here early on Tuesday after suffering a cardiac arrest, hospital authorities said. He was 40….
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Agriculture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Tuesday said the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU)-led farmers’ protest was politically motivated. “There is a reason behind it. Because this…
Washington, Oct 2 (IANS) US President Donald Trump’s administration has begun denying visas to unmarried, same-sex partners of foreign diplomats and UN employees, the media reported. According to a report in Foreign Policy magazine on…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched a medley version of Bapu’s favourite bhajan ‘Vaishnav jan to tene kahiye’ sung by artists from over 40 countries, during the closing ceremony…
Kolkata, Oct 2 (IANS) An eight-year-old boy was killed and at least nine persons were injured in a crude bomb blast in Dumdum in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Tuesday, police said. The…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) The CPI-M on Tuesday denounced the Tripura government’s decision to cancel the registration of newspaper “Daily Desharkatha”. “Desharkatha” was a prominent newspaper of Tripura of 40 years standing and was…
Bhubaneswar, Oct 2 (IANS) The Odisha government enforced a ban on the use of plastic in six cities of the state on Tuesday, coinciding with the 149th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. A ban on…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) A massive protest march by farmers from Uttar Pradesh to Delhi with a charter of 15 demands including loan waiver and fair prices for crops turned violent at the border…
Washington, Oct 2 (IANS) US space agency NASA has completed 60 years of human space exploration, discovering the world beyond Earth and developing new technologies. “For six decades, NASA has led peaceful exploration of space,…
Palu (Indonesia), Oct 2 (IANS) Indonesian authorities on Tuesday raised the death toll to 1,234 in the 7.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Sulawesi island last week. The twin disasters on Friday left the…