Beijing, Jan 17 (IANS) Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhemin will likely meet the Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday. The meet comes amid the thawing ties between the two countries after Duterte made an…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) India’s domestic air passenger traffic zoomed by 23.18 per cent in 2016 to 998.88 lakh, official data showed on Tuesday. “Passengers carried by domestic airlines during January-December 2016 were 998.88…
Mumbai, Jan 17 (IANS) A Special CBI Court on Tuesday started the trial in the sensational Sheena Bora murder case by framing charges against her mother Indrani Mukerjea, and her two step-fathers – former media…
Chandigarh, Jan 17 (IANS) The Congress on Tuesday announced its final list of candidates for the Punjab assembly elections, naming three for the pending seats of Amritsar South, Mansa and Ludhiana East. The three candidates…
Moscow, Jan 17 (IANS) Russia considered it appropriate to invite representatives of the Trump administration to the upcoming intra-Syria talks in the Kazakhstan capital city of Astana on January 23, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) The Congress party on Tuesday said it will contest the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls in alliance with the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party. “The Congress-Samajwadi Party alliance will form the next…
Mumbai, Jan 17 (IANS) Profit booking, coupled with broadly negative global indices, pulled the Indian equities markets lower during the mid-afternoon trade session on Tuesday. The key indices, which opened on a positive note, traded…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre about steps taken following a BSF constable’s allegation that troopers posted along the Line of Control (LoC) are served meagre and…
Washington, Jan 17 (IANS) US President-elect Donald Trump does not make India-born Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella nervous, and he is confident about the tech giant’s place as a job creator. “We’re a US-based company that…
Chennai, Jan 17 (IANS) The Tamil film fraternity has special plans to make the occasion of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and late actor M.G Ramachandran’s birth centenary on Tuesday memorable. MGR, as he was…
Washington, Jan 17 (IANS) Eugene A. Cernan, the commander of the Apollo 17 lunar-landing mission in 1972 and the last man to walk on the moon, died in Houston. He was 82. His death was…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday deferred the hearing of a plea filed by NRI televangelist Zakir Naik challenging the government decision to ban his NGO Islamic Research Foundation (IRF)….
Patiala, Jan 17 (IANS) Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh said on Tuesday that he did not know if he was the Chief Ministerial candidate and that it was up to party President Sonia Gandhi to…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) The Congress party on Tuesday said it will contest the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls in alliance with the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party. “The Congress-Samajwadi Party alliance will form the next…
Patna, Jan 17 (IANS) RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Tuesday said he and his son and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav will campaign for Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in the assembly elections….
Chennai, Jan 17 (IANS) Announcing her decision to enter politics, late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa’s ni e J. Deepa on Tuesday said she wasn’t sure whether she will join the AIADMK or float…
Jammu, Jan 17 (IANS) Denouncing Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh for calling recent snowfall “a natural calamity”, National Conference members on Tuesday walked out of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly. Singh told the assembly that…
Mumbai, Jan 17 (IANS) Bollywood star Aamir Khan on Tuesday described “Dangal” co-star Zaira Wasim, who came under attack after meeting Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, as a “role model”. The superstar also…
Beijing, Jan 17 (IANS) German automaker Volkswagen plans to provide more than 400,000 new energy cars for the Chinese market by 2020, the company said on Tuesday. According to CEO of Volkswagen Group China, Jochem…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) will start a journalism course in Urdu, the government announced on Tuesday. M. Venkaiah Naidu, Minister of Information and Broadcasting, will inaugurate the…