Jerusalem, Sep 13 (IANS) Former Israeli President Shimon Peres has been taken to a hospital after “having suffered a brain episode”, the office of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said on Tuesday. Peres, 93, also a…
New York, Sep 13 (IANS) State Bank of India’s chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya, ICICI Bank’s chief Chanda Kochhar and Axis Bank CEO Shikha Sharma ranked in the top twenty of the ’50 Most Powerful Women International’…
Greater Noida, Sep 13 (IANS) Inching closer to lifting the Duleep Trophy, India Blue took a virtually unassailable lead of 476 runs against India Red on a rain-truncated penultimate day of the tournament final at…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) India and Russia on Tuesday agreed to create an “energy bridge” with the possibility of gas pipelines for direct gas delivery from Russia to India. “…Both sides launched an industry…
Lucknow, Sep 13 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) seemed to plunge into a major crisis on Tuesday night as Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav withdrew important portfolios from his uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav, who…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Bharti Airtel on Tuesday said following its talks with Reliance Industries, it will provide additional points of interconnection (POIs) to Jio telecom services — a move that has been welcomed…
Singur (West Bengal), Sep 13 (IANS) A festive mood prevails in Singur where West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will on Wednesday return 9,117 land records to farmers and compensate 800 peasants from whom land…
London, Sep 13 (IANS) The Man Booker Prize judges announced on Tuesday their shortlist for the best original novel, written in the English language and published in Britain. The prize, one of the literary world’s…
New Delhi/Bengaluru, Sep 13 (IANS) Most of the domestic airlines on Tuesday waived off flight change penalties for operations from Bengaluru for a limited period of time. In their respective accounts on micro-blogging website Twitter,…
Mumbai, Sep 13 (IANS) Aggressive activists of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) on Tuesday briefly disrupted a scheduled media gathering addressed by the Vidarbha Rajya Andolan Samiti, which is fighting for carving out a separate state…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) In what can be seen as a sign of China relenting on India’s bid for membership to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), a Chinese delegation visited New Delhi on Tuesday…
Mumbai, Sep 13 (IANS) Tata Sons’ Chairman Cyrus P. Mistry has said that debt levels of some of the group companies should be seen in the context of business growth, increasing cash from operations, and…
By Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai, Sep 13 (IANS) The US won the gold medal on a better tie-break score over Ukraine while the top-seeded Russia won bronze at the 2016 World Chess Olympiad open category at…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) As more cases of vector-borne diseases were reported in the national capital, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Tuesday held the Lt. Governor and the BJP-controlled civic bodies responsible for…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) A 75-year-old man died due to chikungunya at Ganga Ram Hospital on Tuesday evening, a day afer three men in their 60s succumbed to the mosquito-borne disease at the hospital,…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Sikkim has been adjudged the cleanest state in the country on the issue of sanitation in rural areas. Its four districts have been ranked among top 10 districts in the…
Moscow, Sep 13 (IANS) Russian hacking group Fancy Bears’ Hack Team on Tuesday claimed to have accessed the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) database, alleging that American tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams and four-time Rio…
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing, Sep 13 (IANS) China on Tuesday said it would be “disgraceful” if Japan sold search and rescue aircraft to India at a lower cost to build pressure on Beijing over the…
Lucknow, Sep 13 (IANS) In a significant development, Uttar Pradesh PWD Minister Shivpal Singh Yadav on Tuesday replaced Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav as the state president of the Samajwadi Party. The decision was taken by…
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Spain may be overwhelming favourites in their upcoming Davis Cup World Group Play-off against India, but their star player Rafael Nadal is in no mood to take the hosts lightly….