New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) Congress on Saturday hit out at Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale for his remark that BSP chief Mayawati and Dalits should accept Buddhism, saying that…
Kingston, July 30 (IANS) West Indies skipper Jason Holder won the toss and elected to bat in the second Test against India at the Sabina Park here on Saturday. After losing the first Test in…
By Sarwar Kashani Srinagar, July 30 (IANS) A senior Jammu and Kashmir cabinet minister narrowly escaped on Saturday when his cavalcade was attacked with stones as more violence erupted in the valley, coinciding with the…
Srinagar, July 30 (IANS) A city court on Saturday directed police to issue a non-bailable warrant against the Srinagar police chief after he defied its orders to register a case against a senior police officer…
Latur (Maharashtra), July 30 (IANS) Heavy rains in most parts of Maharashtra notwithstanding, the parched Latur city and surroundings continue to be supplied drinking water through the ‘Jaldoot’ special train operated by Indian Railways, an…
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) Hundreds of Indians in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have been rendered jobless and their salaries not paid after factories were shut down. India is arranging for food packets for over…
Kozhikode/Thiruvananthapuram, July 30 (IANS) A Kerala Police officer who forcibly took away four media persons attached to Asianet TV channel from a magistrate’s court to a police station in Kozhikode has been suspended for misconduct….
Srinagar, July 30 (IANS) The restive Kashmir Valley stayed calm but tense on Saturday — the 22nd day of curfew and separatist-called shutdown — as the globally banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant outfit threw its weight…
Guwahati, July 30 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday made an aerial survey of the flood-hit Nagaon and Morigaon districts and Kaziranga national park area and assured the state government all possible help…
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday that a large number of Indians have been rendered jobless in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and Minister of State for External Affairs…
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) Vice-President and Rajya Sabha chairman M. Hamid Ansari on Saturday said frequent disruptions in the upper house create a bad impression in the public mind and asked the members to…
By Rohit Vaid Mumbai, July 30 (IANS) Expectations of political consensus on a major economic legislation, combined with above average monsoon rains and continued influx of foreign funds are expected to support the Indian rupee…
Guwahati, July 30 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday assured adequate assistance to Assam, where at least 26 people have been killed in floods and thousands displaced, and said the central government will…
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) A court here on Saturday held Mahmood Farooqui, the co-director of the 2010 Hindi film “Peepli Live”, guilty of raping an American woman. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjiv Jain convicted Farooqui…
Imphal, July 30 (IANS) Two foreign nationals, possibly from the Middle East, were among three undertrial prisoners killed early on Saturday in violence inside the Sajiwa Central Jail in Imphal East district of Manipur, highly…
Timeline of the rape case against Mahmood Farooqui. June 19, 2015: American woman lodges FIR against ‘Peepli Live’ co-director Mahmood Farooqui at New Friends Colony police station. June 21, 2015: Delhi Police arrest Farooqui. July…
By Porisma P. Gogoi and Rohit Vaid Mumbai, July 30 (IANS) Indian equity markets were buoyed by positive anticipation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill clearing parliament, supported by a perceptible inflow of…
Lucknow, July 30 (IANS) A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur on Saturday sentenced to death a Bangladeshi convicted in the July 2005 Shramjeevi Express blast which had left 12 passengers dead. Additional Sessions Judge Budhiram…
Rio de Janeiro, July 30 (IANS) With less than a week to go for the start of the Rio Olympics, the Indian contingent members have begun reaching the Olympic Village. With almost half of the…
Washington, July 30 (IANS) At least three persons were killed and one injured on Saturday in a shooting incident in Mukilteo in the US, an official said. A suspect linked with the shooting has been…