Islamabad, Dec 16 (IANS) Pakistan suggested to the Afghan government on Thursday to formally invite the Taliban for peace negotiations. The comments came amid reports that Taliban political representatives in Qatar are exploring options for…
Damascus, Dec 16 (IANS) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday that the liberation of the northern city of Aleppo from the rebels changes the time into a history being written now, according to state…
Damascus, Dec 16 (IANS) The evacuation of the rebels from the northern city of Aleppo will continue through the night, state TV said on Thursday. The process will be ongoing during the night until “ending…
Chennai, Dec 16 (IANS) DMK President M. Karunanidhi was admitted to Kauvery Hospital again on Thursday night, said an hospital official. His second spell of hospitalisation this month comes after a short interval. It was…
Kolkata, Dec 15 (IANS) From showing black flags to RBI Governor Urjit Patel, to holding noisy demonstrations outside its office in the city, West Bengal’s major non-BJP political parties intensified their protest against demonetisation targeting…
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) BJP President Amit Shah on Thursday appointed party MP Poonam Mahajan as president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the party’s youth wing. Mahajan, the daughter of late party leader Pramod…
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea by Justice Markandey Katju (retd) challenging a resolution passed by Parliament deploring his remarks against Mahatma Gandhi and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose….
Kolkata, Dec 15 (IANS) Attacking the central government over demonetisation, goods transport associations on Thursday declared in unison that the transport industry has suffered a massive setback since the note ban and claimed government’s push…
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will lead a delegation on Friday to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi to submit a charter of demands collected from farmers during his ‘kisan yatra’…
By Natalia Ningthoujam Itanagar, Dec 15 (IANS) Northeast state Arunachal Pradesh’s tranquil village Dambuk, known for its orange orchards, came to life with the roaring sound of modified Gypsies and Jeeps and the high octane…
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) The Congress on Thursday released its much-awaited first list of 61 candidates for the coming Punjab assembly elections, with state Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh picked for the Patiala seat….
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a plea by an IAF personnel seeking to grow a beard and said that the IAF’s policies on personal appearance were not intended to…
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Even after over a month of demonetisation, cash starved people continued to queue up outside banks and ATM kiosks on Thursday while the Union government said it was focusing on…
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Signalling a definitive reversal of the continuous decline in Indian exports earlier in the year, official data on Thursday showed these grew for the third month in a row at…
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) In response to a request from Bhutan, where Indian currency is legal tender, the Reserve Bank of India has instructed that banks in that country be replenished with new Indian…
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar on Thursday held the Congress responsible for the Parliament impasse and said the opposition party did not want to debate demonetisation in both the…
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) The “surgical strike” of demonetisation on black money and corruption has turned out to be a fiasco “coupled with a scam on an industrial scale”, the CPI-M has said. An…
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) The union government on Thursday informed Parliament that state-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI) has issued directions to respective ‘car parking licensees’ across all AAI-controlled airports to evolve a mechanism…
Kolkata, Dec 15 (IANS) Expressing serious concern over alleged political discrimination among states, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote to RBI Governor Urjit Patel to know “the nature of allocation of new…
Panaji, Dec 15 (IANS) The Election Commission of India is still at the “planning stage” as far as finalisation of dates for the upcoming state assembly elections to five states, Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi…