London, Sep 22 (IANS) An 18-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder in connection with last week’s terror attack on a London Tube train, officials said on Friday. Ahmed Hassan, of Sunbury, Surrey, was…
Lucknow, Sep 22 (IANS) A social worker in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur district on Friday offered a reward of Rs 1 lakh for information on the whereabouts of Honeypreet, the missing aide of jailed Dera Saccha…
Kolkata, Sep 22 (IANS) The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Friday wrote letters to all state associations saying that the domestic schedule for junior and women’s cricket matches has to be…
Mumbai, Sep 22 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said that it had on Friday arrested a Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax in Mumbai and two others in a bribery case. “The agency has…
Pyongyang/Washington, Sep 22 (IANS) Responding directly for the first time to US President Donald Trumps threat at the UN to destroy nuclear-armed North Korea, its leader Kim Jong-un called Trump a “mentally deranged US dotard”…
Mumbai, Sep 22 (IANS) Key Indian equity indices on Friday witnessed the steepest fall since November 2016, on the back of escalating geo-political tensions between North Korea and the US, a weak rupee and heavy…
Varanasi, Sep 22 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated 17 projects in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi and ‘digitally’ laid the foundation stone of six other projects. On his two-day visit to the temple…
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) Fashion designer Rohit Bal was arrested here on Friday on the charge of forcibly entering his neighbour’s house and creating a ruckus under the influence of alcohol but was released…
London, Sep 22 (IANS) Ride-hailing app Uber will not be issued a new private hire licence, Transport for London (TfL) said on Friday. The TfL rejected Uber’s application on the basis that the company was…
Thane (Maharashtra), Sep 22 (IANS) Under interrogation in police custody, Iqbal Ibrahim Kaskar has categorically stated that his brother and fugitive mafia don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar is very much in Pakistan and in good health,…
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) A self-closing pit latrine plastic toilet costing $10 or less is among five sanitation-for-all projects funded under Urban Sanitation Challenge that addresses dangers of inadequate sanitation among rural consumers worldwide,…
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) Even as petrol prices in India breached levels last reached before the Narendra Modi goverment took charge in 2014, OPEC and non-OPEC ministers are meeting in Vienna on Friday to…
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday said that states were obliged to compensate the victims of cow vigilante groups and asked all of them to file a report on the compliance…
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday said that he has “great respect” for the judiciary, but governance must be left to those elected to…
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday said Karti Chidambaram, son of former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, cannot leave the country for now as the court will hold a further hearing on…
Kolkata, Sep 22 (IANS) A day after the Calcutta High Court lifted the state government’s restrictions on Durga idol immersions on October 1 during Muharram, West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi on Friday said the judgment…
Jodhpur, Sep 22 (IANS) The Rajasthan High Court on Friday set up a three member high-level committee comprising a retired High Court Judge to advise the state government in relation to different issues pertaining to…
Mumbai, Sep 22 (IANS) “Newton”, a Hindi film set against the backdrop of elections in the world’s largest democracy, was on Friday announced as India’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the…
Varanasi, Sep 22 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday flagged off the new Varanasi-Vadodara Mahamana Express via videoconferencing here. Earlier in the day, Modi arrived here by a special Indian Air Force aircraft on…
Varanasi, Sep 22 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday arrived in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi on a two-day visit amid high security. He was received by Governor Ram Naik, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and…