Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 18 (IANS) A row has erupted over flaws in the actual age of some of the 51 women referred to by the Kerala government counsel on Friday in the Supreme Court saying they…
Kolkata, Jan 18 (IANS) Lakhs of Trinamool Congress activists and supporters from across West Bengal thronged the city on Friday, a day ahead of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s high-voltage ‘United India Rally’ that is likely…
Mumbai, Jan 18 (IANS) Mixed global cues, weakness in the Indian currency and heavy selling in the healthcare and finance stocks dragged the key equity indices on Friday, with Sensex and Nifty ending flat with…
Melbourne, Jan 18 (IANS) India rode a third consecutive half-century by former skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni to defeat Australia by seven wickets in the third One-Day International (ODI) here on Friday. The visitors thus clinched…
Srinagar, Jan 18 (IANS) Minutes after hurling a grenade at a paramilitary patrol party in the city centre Lal Chowk here in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, militants hurled another grenade at a police camp…
Gandhinagar, Jan 18 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that his government had made doing business in India easier, cheaper, faster and smarter with his term accounting for almost 45 per cent of…
New Delhi, Jan 18 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party, which has been giving mixed signals on the chances of an alliance with the Congress, on Friday finally ruled out any such possibility in Delhi, Haryana…
By Arul Louis Washington, Jan 18 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has barred Speaker Nancy Pelosi from flying on a Pentagon plane to Afghanistan in a tit-for-tat for her blocking his State of the Union…
Ahmedabad, Jan 18 (IANS) India and Uzbekistan signed an agreement on importing uranium from the Central Asian nation following a bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the sidelines…
Srinagar, Jan 18 (IANS) Militants on Friday hurled a grenade at a paramilitary patrol party in the city centre Lal Chowk here in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The grenade was aimed at the Central…
Mumbai, Jan 18 (IANS) Amid broadly positive global cues and selling in index heavyweights, major Indian equity indices traded flat during Friday’s afternoon trade session. Except for energy, oil and gas sector on BSE all…
Patna, Jan 18 (IANS) A seven-year-old boy was beaten, his jaw was broken and six of his teeth were knocked out as punishment for plucking some plums from a tree in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district, police…
Srinagar, Jan 18 (IANS) A huge explosion ripped through the Jammu and Kashmir capital’s high-security zone Lal Chowk area here damaging shops and vehicles on Friday, police said. (This story has not been edited by…
New Delhi, Jan 18 (IANS) After deciding to skip the mega rally of the TMC in Kolkata on Saturday, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday sent a message to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee…
Panaji, Jan 18 (IANS) Goa Governor Mridula Sinha on Friday launched a veiled attack on former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying some leaders are “foisted into position by others” and that “there are only certain…
Beijing, Jan 18 (IANS) China has lowered its final 2017 GDP growth from 6.9 per cent, announced initially, to 6.8 per cent, the National Bureau of Statistics of China said on Friday. China calculates its…
London, Jan 18 (IANS) British Prime Minister Theresa May will not attend this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to focus on resolving the Brexit crisis following the House of Commons’ overwhelming rejection of…
By Arul Louis Washington, Jan 18 (IANS) Declaring that “space is a new war-fighting domain”, President Donald Trump has announced an ambitious plan to develop a space-based anti-missile defence system to track and destroy weapons-bearing…
Rabat, Jan 18 (IANS) The adoption by the European Parliament by an overwhelming majority of the Moroccan-EU Agriculture Agreement confirms that “any agreement covering the Moroccan Sahara can only be negotiated and signed by the…
Srinagar, Jan 18 (IANS) Four dead bodies were recovered from the debris of an avalanche that hit Leh district of Ladakh trapping 10 people on Friday, police said. “Rescue teams recovered the bodies from the…