Beijing, Feb 23 (IANS) Photos of two 16-year-olds in wedding gown and suit have sparked heavy criticism and heated discussion on Chinese social media, a news report on Tuesday said. The two teens, who were…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, who are facing sedition charges for allegedly raising “anti-India” slogans, have surrendered before police on Tuesday, sources said. A case…
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee departs from Rashtrapati Bhavan to address both the houses of that Parliament on the beginning of Budget Session , in New Delhi on Feb 23, 2016. (Photo: IANS/RB). New Delhi,…
New Delhi: People participate in a march organised from Ambedkar Bhawan to Jantar Mantar to condemn the “institutional killing” of 26-year-old scholar of the University of Hyderabad (UoH), Rohith Vemula; in New Delhi, on Feb…
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Delhi Water Minister Kapil Mishra on Tuesday said that restoration of full water supply in the national capital may take a week but partial piped water supply will start in…
AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) The Karnataka government on Tuesday sought the reversal of its state high court verdict acquitting Tamil Nadu Chief…
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) BJP veteran L.K. Advani and Congress president Sonia Gandhi chatted away on the front row of the Central Hall before President Pranab Mukherjee began his address to the joint session…
Aligarh, Feb 23 (IANS) India’s first education minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad opposed partition till his last breath, experts said here on Tuesday. “Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was not only a great writer, thinker, freedom…
New Delhi: Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs, and Information and Broadcasting Arun Jaitley addresses during the Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture – 2015 organised by All India Radio in New Delhi, on Oct 26, 2015….
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday, while agreeing to hear a plea filed by JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya seeking security before they surrender to court, asked them…
Hyderabad, Feb 23 (IANS) The government, law enforcing agencies, religious scholars and media have to work together to stop Indian Muslim youth from getting attracted to terror outfit Islamic State, eminent religious scholars said on…
Rohtak: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar meet people who had been affected during Jat agitation, in Rohtak on Feb 23, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Rohtak/Chandigarh, Feb 23 (IANS) Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar made…
Pathankot: Soilders inside the Pathankot Air Force base that was attacked by militants; on Jan 5, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Islamabad, Feb 23 (IANS) Pakistani law-enforcement agencies have conducted raids in various cities of the country’s…
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal joins protest to condemn the “institutional killing” of 26-year-old scholar of the University of Hyderabad (UoH), Rohith Vemula at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, on Feb 23, 2016….
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) Burdwan University in West Bengal was on the boil on Tuesday after police baton-charged a group of student agitators who had allegedly vandalised the campus over anomalies in undergraduate results and…
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Mohd. Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Union Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs M. Venkaiah Naidu…
Cairo, Feb 23 (IANS) Following a public outcry, Egyptian authorities have admitted that a military court “mistakenly” sentenced a four-year-old child to life in prison for “committing murder” when he was only one-year-old. The little…
Jaipur, Feb 23 (IANS) A mob tried to set ablaze the engine of a goods train in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district on Tuesday, as the Jat community continued its protest for the third day demanding reservation….
Dhaka, Feb 23 (IANS) Bangladesh’s cricket skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza is going to be the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) “national goodwill ambassador for youth”. Mortaza currently captains the country’s One-Day International (ODI) and Twenty20…
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) Former Maharashtra inspector general of police S.M. Mushrif on Tuesday accused the Intelligence Bureau (IB) of being hand-in-glove with right-wing extremists and called for a ban on the RSS describing it…