By Arul Louis United Nations, March 13 (IANS) UN General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak has held up Sunita Kashyap, the founder of Umang, as an example of women empowering themselves and coming up with solutions…
Chennai, March 13 (IANS) The Chennai Trekking Club (CTC) team that lost some of its members killed in the forest fire in Tamil Nadu’s Kurangani Hills had necessary official permission, paid the government fees and…
Ranchi, March 13 (IANS) Four Maoist guerrillas were arrested on Tuesday and a small bomb-making factory unearthed in two separate cases in Jharkhand, police said. Police and the Central Reserve Police Force personnel arrested the…
Ranchi, March 13 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha election in Jharkhand has taken an interesting turn, with two multi-millionaire candidates — one each from ruling BJP and Congress — pitted against one another for the single…
Moscow, March 13 (IANS) Moscow will not respond to UK’s demand for information on a “Russian-made” nerve agent used in a suspected assassination attempt on a former double agent in England, until the country is…
Jodhpur, March 13 (IANS) A team of doctors flew in to check on megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who is in pain due to the heavy costumes for the shoot of “Thugs of Hindostan”. In an early…
Mumbai, March 13 (IANS) The key Indian equity indices on Tuesday gave up all gains to close on a flat note, with the BSE Sensex incurring marginal losses while the NSE Nifty50 held on to…
Kathmandu, March 13 (IANS) The death toll in the US-Bangla Airlines plane crash in Nepal climbed to 51 after two more people succumbed to injuries in hospital here on Tuesday as the Nepali government formed…
New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that the attack on CRPF troopers in Chhattisgarh that left nine paramilitary personnel dead reflected a deteriorating internal security situation under the Narendra…
Ghaziabad, March 13 (IANS) Four persons died and one took ill on Tuesday after consuming illicit liquor following which four policemen, including the area SHO, were suspended in Khora locality here, police said. Police received…
Chennai, March 13 (IANS) The Forest Survey of India’s (FSI) SMS warning about hot spots/fire alert in Kurangani Hills in Tamil Nadu’s Theni district was received just before midnight on Sunday, a senior state Forest…
New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) A day after the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) directed the grounding of 11 A320neo aircraft, budget carrier Indigo cancelled 47 flights on various routes, according to the information…
Imphal, March 13 (IANS) The Coordinating Committee (Corcom) formed by six proscribed underground organisations in Manipur on Tuesday called for a 17-hour shutdown in Manipur to coincide with the state visit of Prime Minister Narendra…
Bengaluru, March 13 (IANS) Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) candidate B.M. Farooq with a declared assets of around Rs 770 crore is the richest of the five aspirants in the fray for biennial elections to the four…
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing, March 13 (IANS) India’s Ambassador to China Gautam Bambawale on Tuesday met a top official of the Communist Party’s key International Department and discussed ways to step up bilateral talks and…
Lucknow, March 13 (IANS) Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday slammed their former member Naresh Agarwal, who has now joined the BJP, for his comments on actress-turned-politician Jaya…
Mumbai, March 13 (IANS) The Maharashtra government plans to withdraw cases against the accused in the January 1 Bhima-Koregaon caste riots in Pune which had left one dead, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced in the…
New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday set deadline of 2025 to free India from tuberculosis (TB), five years ahead of the global deadline set by World Health Organisation (WHO). “The…
New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended the deadline for linking of various services with Aadhaar till it delivers its judgment on a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of…
New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) Business activities across Delhi came to a standstill as over seven lakh shops in 2,500 markets across the city shut on Tuesday to protest against the ongoing sealing drive by…