Islamabad, May 12 (IANS) Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday termed the attack on a five-star hotel in the port city of Gwadar in Balochistan province as a bid to “sabotage prosperity” in the…
Bhind, May 12 (IANS) Candidates of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Sandhya Rai, Devashish Jararia and Babulal Jamore, respectively, in the Bhind parliamentary constituency of Madhya Pradesh…
Lucknow, May 12 (IANS) The Samajwadi Party has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission against a polling official who reportedly cast votes on behalf of senior citizens in Mehnagar Assembly segment in Azamgarh in…
Patna, May 12 (IANS) Bihar on Sunday witnessed 52.02 per cent polling till 3 p.m. for the eight Lok Sabha seats in the state’s Bhojpuri-speaking northern belt, amid reports of an incident in Sheohar where…
Colombo, May 12 (IANS) A 47-year-old preacher has been arrested at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in the Sri Lankan capital on charges of using social media platform to air extremist views, the police said….
Kolkata, May 12 (IANS) A BJP worker was killed in West Bengal’s Jhargram while Trinamool supporters sustained bullet injuries in West Midnapore during the sixth phase of Lok Sabha polling on Sunday that was marred…
Kushinagar (Uttar Pradesh), May 12 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that when he got a chance to serve the people, he ensured welfare schemes but the opposition ensured their own welfare. Addressing an…
Tehran, May 12 (IANS) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has slammed the “unprecedented” US pressure on Tehran and urged unity among the country’s political factions to overcome conditions which he said may be harder than those…
Kushinagar (Uttar Pradesh), May 12 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the Army cannot wait for clearance from the Election Commission to take action against terrorists. The Prime Minister, while referring to…
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) President Ram Nath Kovind, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress President Rahul Gandhi were among the millions who voted on Sunday in the sixth and penultimate round of the Lok…
Chandigarh, May 12 (IANS) Haryana on Sunday witnessed only 31.53 per cent voting till 1 p.m. for the state’s 10 Lok Sabha seats, an election official said. As of 1 p.m. the highest voter turnout…
Washington, May 12 (IANS) Former US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said that there is a “real risk” that if American troops are pulled out of Afghanistan, the Taliban might retake control of the country….
Lucknow, May 12 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh recorded around 21.98 per cent polling till 11 a.m. on Sunday for 14 of the state’s 80 constituencies in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections. There was…
Kushinagar (Uttar Pradesh), May 12 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday demanded to know why Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati did not withdraw support to the ruling Congress in Rajasthan in view of…
Pratapgarh (Uttar Pradesh), May 12 (IANS) Senior Congress leader and former MP Pramod Tiwari was placed under house arrest on Sunday in Pratapgarh where polling is taking place for the Lok Sabha elections. Independent MLA…
By Ravi Dutta Mishra New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) All the chest thumping over a big leap forward in the ease of doing business index and the tag of the world’s fastest growing economy in…
Thrissur (Kerala), May 12 (IANS) The opening of the famed Thrissur Pooram festival here on Sunday was attended by more than 10,000 people after an order disallowing a 54-year-old tusker from taking part in the…
By Nirbhay Kumar New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) The hype around Udan (Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik) scheme and low entry-barrier prompted a rich farmer from Maharashtra to approach the Airports Authority of India (AAI)…
Riyadh, May 12 (IANS) Eight members of a “terrorist” cell have been killed in a security operation in Saudi Arabia’s Qatif region, the state media reported. The newly-formed terrorist cell had plans to carry out…
Srinagar, May 12 (IANS) Clashes broke out between stone pelting youths and the security forces on Sunday near the site of a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district where two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants were…