Kolkata, Jan 17 (IANS) Former Union Ministers Arun Shourie, Yashwant Sinha and Shatrughan Sinha — all of whom had served in late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s cabinet but have been bitterly opposed to the…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) Based on a CBI case in connection with its ongoing investigation into illegal sand mining, the ED on Thursday registered a case of money laundering to probe the role of…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) The State Bank of India (SBI) on Thursday said that lenders to the financially stressed Jet Airways are in talks for a restructuring plan to ensure long term viability of…
Hyderabad, Jan 17 (IANS) Pocharam Srinivas Reddy of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) is all set to be unanimously elected the new Speaker of the Telangana Legislative Assembly. Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR)…
Mumbai, Jan 17 (IANS) Amid mixed global markets and the ongoing corporate earning session, Indian equities ended higher on Thursday. Ahead of the release of quarterly results by index heavyweights, the Sensex closed with a…
Bengaluru, Jan 17 (IANS) A senior Congress leader in Karnataka on Thursday mocked the health condition of BJP President Amit Shah, who has been admitted to the AIIMS in Delhi for treatment of swine flue,…
San Francisco, Jan 17 (IANS) In what could be the biggest data breach in recent years, a whopping 773 million unique email IDs and 21 million unique passwords have been leaked, a researcher said on…
Guwahati, Jan 17 (IANS) BJP National General Secretary Ram Madhav on Thursday termed the proposed ‘Mahagathbandhan’ or Grand Alliance as a non starter, saying that the opposition parties have no credible issues or agenda against…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) Brandishing knives at passengers, five armed men forced their entry into two Jammu-Delhi Duronto Express coaches early on Thursday and fled with their cash and gold within minutes in the…
New York, Jan 17 (IANS) Over 60 per cent of millennials in the US are unhappy with President Donald Trump, and only 37 per cent view him favourably, a new survey has revealed. Conducted by…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) India on Thursday condemned the terror attack at a luxury hotel complex in Kenya’s capital Nairobi that claimed the lives of at least 21 people. “India strongly condemns the horrific…
Gandhinagar/Ahmedabad, Jan 17 (IANS) Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates on Thursday a host of high-profile events as part of the three-day Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit, pictures of Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel went…
Panaji, Jan 17 (IANS) A key ally of the BJP-led coalition government in Goa announced on Thursday that it will contest the coastal state’s yet to be scheduled by-polls “on its own”. The decision was…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) Several Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, including party media coordinator Anil Balooni and Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Ashwani Choubey, on Thursday visited AIIMS here where party…
Melbourne, Jan 17 (IANS) With the three-match ODI rubber tantalisingly poised at 1-1, the task is cut out for both India and Australia to pull up their socks in the series decider at the Melbourne…
Washington, Jan 17 (IANS) The US city of Louisville in Kentucky state is set to rename its airport after hometown hero and boxing legend Muhammad Ali, who died in 2016. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) The NIA on Thursday raided five places in Uttar Pradesh and two in Punjab in its probe into a new Islamic State (IS)-inspired module Harkat-ul-Harb-e-Islam and detained four men, officials…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) The Supreme Court will hear on Friday a plea for round-the-clock police protection for two women who had entered the Sabarimala temple, as they have been getting threats. A bench…
Mumbai, Jan 17 (IANS) Reversing early gains, major indices traded lower during Thursday afternoon’s trade session. The benchmark Sensex declined over 60 points while the Nifty slipped below the 10,900-mark. According to market participants, investorts…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) authorities said on Thursday that Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was discharged from the hospital earlier in the day, where he was…