New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) World’s military expenditure increased by 2.6 per cent, reaching $1822 billion in 2018 with India along with United States, China, Saudi Arabia and France contributing 60 per cent of the…
Colombo, April 29 (IANS) Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday appointed former Army commander Gen. S.H.S Kottegoda as the new Defence Secretary and Deputy Inspector-General C.D Wickramaratne as the Acting Inspector General of Police…
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) Four Indian academic qualifications — Senior School Certificate (SSC), Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees and PhDs – from government-approved institutions will now be recognized by the French government with effect from…
Chennai, April 29 (IANS) Cyclonic storm Fani over southeast Bay of Bengal is very likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm during next six hours and into a very severe cyclonic storm during subsequent…
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan on Monday hit out at the opposition parties for raising the issue of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s caste background…
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing, April 29 (IANS) India and China are marking the first anniversary of the icebreaking meet between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in Wuhan, by holding a week-long celebration…
Srinagar, April 29 (IANS) Voting in the second phase of the troubled Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency in Jammu and Kashmir ended on Monday marred by street protests but with only 10 per cent of the…
Mumbai, April 29 (IANS) An aircraft of budget airline SpiceJet operating on the Delhi-Shirdi route, overshot the runway while landing at the Shirdi airport on Monday. According to the airline, no harm was caused to…
Sreerampur (West Bengal), April 29 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday warned West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that her MLAs will abandon her after the results of the Lok Sabha polls were out,…
Jaipur, April 29 (IANS) Rajasthan witnessed 62.06 per cent polling till 5 p.m. on Monday in the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections with the highest polling recorded in Barmer at 67.92 per cent…
Colombo, April 29 (IANS) The suicide bombers behind the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka assembled easily-available chemicals to make explosives, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said, as authorities probe how the assailants acquired the…
By Anjana Das New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) The themes for the upcoming Economic Survey are still in the works, Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian said on Monday. “Themes for the Economic Survey are…
Kolkata, April 29 (IANS) Amid violence including clashes outside polling booths, attempted intimidation and EVMs snags, 66 per cent of the electorate voted in the first eight hours of polling in the fourth phase of…
Lucknow, April 29 (IANS) Braving the afternoon heat, people came out enthusiastically to vote in 13 constituencies of Uttar Pradesh which went to polls on Monday in the fourth phase, with a 43.91 per cent…
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) Acting on Centre’s plea to defer the Rafael verdict review hearing fixed for Tuesday on grounds that it needs time to file reply on merits, the Supreme Court on Monday…
Islamabad, April 29 (IANS) Pakistan has released 55 Indian fishermen and five civilians as a “goodwill gesture”, the media reported on Monday. According to the Express Tribune, the Indian fishermen and civilians were released from…
Kolkata, April 29 (IANS) While admitting that the Eden Gardens wicket hasn’t exactly been what they wanted, Kolkata Knight Riders CEO Venky Mysore said they have themselves to blame more for the spate of losses…
Kolkata, April 29 (IANS) A Union Minister was attacked, Central forces fired in the air after Trinamool Congress backed villagers vandalised a booth, while there were reports of clashes, intimidation and booth capturing as violence…
Lucknow, April 29 (IANS) In a surprise development, the Samajwadi Party on Monday changed its candidate in the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat and fielded ex-BSF trooper Tej Bahadur Yadav against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The…
Hyderabad, April 29 (IANS) This is the most glaring and classic example of the scale of goof-up in Telangana Board of Intermediate examinations with a student getting ‘0’ marks instead of ’99’in a subject. Gajji…