Ahmedabad, Sep 14 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday laid the foundation stone for the ambitious Rs 1.08 lakh crore ($17 billion) 508-km Ahmedabad-Mumbai High Speed Rail here….
New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) Joining the digital payment bandwagon in India, Google is reportedly launching a Unified Payments Interface (UPI)-based digital payment service called “Tez” as early as next week. According to The-Ken.com, on…
Kuala Lumpur, Sep 14 (IANS) At least 25 persons, including students and teachers, were killed in a fire at a religious school in the Malaysian capital here on Thursday, officials said. The fire at the…
Ahmedabad, Sep 14 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe on Wednesday laid the foundation stone of the ambitious Rs 1.08 lakh crore ($17 billion) Ahmedabad-Mumbai high-speed rail project here. The…
Mumbai, Sep 14 (IANS) Broadly positive Asian markets and healthy buying in oil and gas stocks buoyed the Indian equity markets during the early morning trade session on Thursday. According to market observers, healthy buying…
Lucknow, Sep 14 (IANS) Six persons were killed and many feared drowned in the Yamuna river as a boat capsized on Thursday in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat, police said. The overcrowded boat was headed for Haryana…
Dehradun, Sep 14 (IANS) The Yamunotri Highway in Uttarakhand continues to remain blocked for the third consecutive day on Thursday by the debris of landslides, an official said. More than 800 people are stranded. While…
San Francisco, Sep 14 (IANS) A day after Apple announced facial recognition system to unlock iPhone X, a US senator has written a letter to CEO Tim Cook, conveying concerns on users’ privacy and security….
Lucknow, Sep 14 (IANS) Bodies of two young girls of Class 11 who went missing three days back from Kanpur suburb, were recovered from Etawah early on Thursday, police said. Yogita, 18, and Himani, 17,…
Washington, Sep 14 (IANS) The US has issued visa restrictions on Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone as these countries refused to take back deported citizens. The visa restrictions, effective from Wednesday, affected “certain categories…
Bogota, Sep 14 (IANS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visiting the Colombian capital here has said that Iran’s “terrorist links” are everywhere, including Latin America and called for unity in combating Tehran’s influence. After meeting…
Washington, Sep 14 (IANS) An outline of the Republican tax reform plan will be released during the week beginning September 25, House Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday, reflecting the consensus of the two US congressional…
New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) One coach of Jammu Rajdhani Express on Thursday morning derailed at New Delhi Railway Station, officials said. No passengers were injured in the accident. “Last coach of Jammu Rajdhani Express…
Washington, Sep 14 (IANS) The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday directed federal departments and agencies to remove Kaspersky Lab products from their information systems. “The Department is concerned about the ties between…
San Francisco, Sep 14 (IANS) One student was killed and four others injured on Wednesday in a shooting at a high school near Spokane in the US state of Washington. The shooting took place shortly…
Berlin, Sep 14 (IANS) Incumbent German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday rejected a proposal by Martin Schulz to hold another TV debate between herself and Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader before national elections next week….
New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) National passenger carrier Air India has invited bids from banks for Rs 3,250 crore government guarantee backed “Short Term Loans” (STLs). The airline has called for financial bids by September…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Sep 14 (IANS) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday ranked the North Korean missile and nuclear threat and the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar as the two top global concerns as the…
Vatican City, Sep 13 (IANS/AKI) Pope Francis on Wednesday decried war, calling it “the negation of all rights” and said Catholics should pray for those who have responsibility to prevent it. “War is the negation…
Tehran, Sep 13 (IANS) The inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would by no means have access to Iran’s classified information, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday. Based on the…