Kolkata, March 14 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday congratulated Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, BSP chief Mayawati and RJD leader Lalu Prasad as the opposition took big leads over the BJP…
Gandhinagar, March 14 (IANS) Lawmakers in the Gujarat Assembly on Wednesday came to blows when Dalit leader Jignesh Mewani raised the matter of the deaths of two children in the Asaram ashram in 2008 in…
Lucknow, March 14 (IANS) In a dramatic turn of events since the 2014 general election, the Samajwadi Party was on Wednesday set to wrest from the BJP the two Lok Sabha seats of Gorakhpur and…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea by A.G. Perarivalan, convicted in the conspiracy leading to the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, for recall of the 1999…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Reacting to RBI’s decision to scrap the system of issuing Letters of Undertaking (LoUs) and Letters of Comfort (LoC) by banks in the wake of the Rs 12,600 crore fraud…
Lahore, March 14 (IANS) The Punjab Assembly in Pakistan on Wednesday unanimously passed the ‘Punjab Sikhs Anand Karaj Marriages Act 2017’, a legislation that will provide legal status to Sikh marriages in the province. The…
Chennai, March 14 (IANS) A special CBI court on Wednesday discharged DMK leader and former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, his brother and Sun TV group head Kalanithi Maran and five others in the alleged illegal…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The Indian economy is set to revert to its trend growth rate of 7.5 per cent by 2019-20 as it bottoms out from the impact of the Goods and Services…
Pune, March 14 (IANS) Pune Rural police on Wednesday arrested prominent Hindutva leader Milind Ekbote, who is accused of instigating the Bhima-Koregaon caste violence of January 1, shortly after his anticipatory bail plea was rejected…
Male, March 14 (IANS) The Maldivian government on Wednesday said it would not extend the state of Emergency after it expires on March 22. At a media briefing held for foreign journalists at the President’s…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the budget and voted demands for grants to the tune of Rs 94,61,524 crore without any debate as the House witnessed continued disruption for…
Mumbai, March 14 (IANS) Key Indian equity indices, which traded in the negative territory during the day on the back of weak cues from the Asian markets and selling pressure, pared some losses to provisionally…
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing, March 14 (IANS) Wang Yang will be the new chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country ‘s top political advisory body. Wang, who…
Berlin, March 14 (IANS) Angela Merkel was officially re-elected the German Chancellor with the majority of lawmakers in the lower parliament backing her candidacy in a vote on Wednesday. The majority vote in the Bundestag…
Alappuzha (Kerala), March 14 (IANS) The BDJS, the BJP’s strongest ally in Kerala, announced on Wednesday that it won’t back the Bharatiya Janata Party in the soon to be announced Assembly by-election at Chengannur constituency….
Varanasi, March 14 (IANS) A young man has been arrested here for posting on Facebook the minute-to-minute programme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to his parliamentary constituency, an official said on Wednesday. Anup Pandey…
London/New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Renowned British physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, who shaped modern cosmology and inspired millions despite suffering from a life-threatening condition, died on Wednesday — leaving millions in mourning globally. He was…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day on Wednesday, minutes after it reassembled at 2 p.m., without transacting any business amid a ruckus by government ally TDP and the…
Patna, March 14 (IANS) The RJD-led Grand Alliance in Bihar took a lead on Wednesday over the BJP in the Araria Lok Sabha and the Jahanabad Assembly seats while the BJP was ahead in the…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Online hiring activity registered a 6 per cent growth year-on-year (YoY) in February as job markets continued to remain volatile, a Naukri.com report said here on Wednesday. The survey said…