New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) The Delhi government said on Wednesday it would give a job to the brother of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula of Hyderabad University who committed suicide last month. “Delhi Government…
Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi being welcomed by Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, on his arrival at Guwahati on Jan 19, 2016. (Photo: IANS/PIB) New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Ahead of the assembly elections in…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Several areas of the national capital continued to be hit by acute water shortage on Wednesday, with the normal water supply from Munak canal in Haryana yet to be restored….
Union HRD Minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Union minister Smriti Irani, citing a Jawaharlal Nehru University report on Wednesday, said that JNU student “Umar Khaild misled…
Chennai, Feb 24 (IANS) Nalini Sriharan, serving life term for her role in former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, on Wednesday attended her father P. Sankaranarayanan’s final rites here during a 12-hour parole. Speaking to…
Chennai, Feb 24 (IANS) A 68-kg cake was cut, an AIADMK leader floated on water for 68 minutes and 15 lakh people telephoned her birthday greetings as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK star J….
By Ruwa Shah New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Arrested JNU scholar Umar Khalid’s sister says her brother has wrongly been branded an Islamist terrorist because the self-proclaimed Marxist has a habit of questioning everything, including…
Mumbai: Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal at the seminar on Food Processing Industries `Opportunities in the food processing sector`, during the Make in India Week programme, in Mumbai on Feb 16,…
(Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would lay down guidelines to act against people damaging public property and holding people to ransom in the course of their…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) The central government has fixed a target of electrifying 7,000 un-electrified villages by the end of the current fiscal on March 31, Power Minister Piyush Goyal has said. “The village…
Vijayawada, Feb 24 (IANS) In an another setback to the YSR Congress Party in Andhra Pradesh, one more legislator has switched loyalties to the ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP). Jayaramulu, a member of the assembly…
Gurgaon, Feb 24 (IANS) Rao Kamalbir Singh, the Janata Dal-United president in Haryana, has been booked for illegal mining here in Haryana, police said on Wednesday. A resident of Gurgaon and younger brother of Haryana…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) A high-level committee set up by the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration to inquire into an event organised on the campus, which has triggered international headlines, has been broad based…
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. (File Photo: Xinhua/PID/IANS) Islamabad, Feb 24 (IANS) Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday said that Pakistan was pursuing good relations with all its neighbours, including India, as mutual cooperation was…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Is Afzal Guru a martyr or a terrorist? BJP leader Anurag Thakur on Wednesday raised the question in the Lok Sabha while participating in a discussion on the Jawaharlal Nehru…
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (File Photo: IANS) Tokyo, Feb 24 (IANS) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Russia despite the US urging him not to do so, a top government official said on…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said the Narendra Modi-government was “scared” and won’t let him speak on student protests in India following the police crackdown on the Jawaharlal…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Will Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu increase passenger fares and freight tariff? That’s the question that pops up as he presents his ministry’s annual budget for the next fiscal amid shrinking…
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. (File Photo: Xinhua/PID/IANS) Islamabad, Feb 24 (IANS) Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bambawale on Wednesday met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and discussed bilateral relations, the media reported. Bambawale and Sharif “exchanged…
(Photo: IANS) By Arun Kumar Washington, Feb 24 (IANS) Donald Trump cemented his frontrunner status in the Republican presidential race with a third consecutive victory in Nevada caucuses as his two major rivals Senators Ted…