Brasilia, Sep 13 (IANS) Brazil’s lower house was considering whether to expel former Speaker Eduardo Cunha amid accusations that he lied about undeclared Swiss bank accounts, a media report said on Tuesday. Cunha denies wrongdoing…
Damascus, Sep 13 (IANS) Syrian army on Monday announced a seven-day nationwide ceasefire, state news agency SANA reported. The ceasefire started at 7:00 pm local time and would last till September 19, Xinhua quoted an…
Bengaluru, Sep 13 (IANS) One person was killed and two others injured in police firing on Monday night in tense Bengaluru, where curfew has been imposed in 16 sensitive localities after violent protests erupted in…
Photo by Humbugs and Oddities New York, Sep 13 (IANS) Mounting an attack on Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump on Monday released a new ad seizing on Democratic presidential nominee’s comments in which she called some…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Monday cautioned that if prices of pulses, especially packaged ones, do not scale down, his ministry may not hesitate to invoke the Essential…
Bengaluru/New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) Widespread violence broke out in southern Karnataka on Monday over the apex court order to release Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu, with angry Kannadiga protesters torching over 30 buses…
Akola (Maharashtra), Sep 12 (IANS) Launching a sharp offensive at its erstwhile partner, senior Nationalist Congress Party leader Praful Patel has squarely blamed the Congress for his party’s downfall. He also accused the Congress of…
Bengaluru, Sep 12 (IANS) Violence-hit Karnataka on Monday sought additional security forces from the Union Government to maintain peace during festivals after angry protests and violence rocked Bengaluru and Mysuru over the Supreme Court’s latest…
Kolkata, Sep 12 (IANS) Nixing the “disclosures” of a Britain-based website that had quoted an “ad interim report” sent by Japan confirming the “death” of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in a 1945 plane crash in…
Rio de Janeiro, Sep 12 (IANS) India’s Deepa Malik bagged a silver medal in the women’s shotput F53 event at the 2016 Rio Paralympics Games, clinching the silver with a personal best throw of 4.61…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari and Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan greeted the nation on Eid-ul-Zuha with a message of peace and harmony. “On the occasion of Eid-ul-Zuha,…
London, Sep 12 (IANS) Former British Prime Minister David Cameron has stood down as a Tory MP, triggering a by-election in his Oxfordshire seat of Witney. Cameron, who resigned as Prime Minister after June’s European…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday suspended Delhi legislator Devinder Sehrawat from the party for “anti-party activities”. “The disciplinary committee of AAP’s Delhi unit has decided to suspend Devinder…
Greater Noida, Sep 12 (IANS) India Blue inched closer to clinch the Duleep Trophy tournament after taking a massive 337-run lead in the first innings against India Red on the penultimate day of the summit…
By Nishant Arora Boston (Massachusetts), Sep 12 (IANS) In the largest ever print acquisition in HP Inc’s history to accelerate growth opportunities in the copier segment, the company on Monday announced to acquire Samsung Electronics…
Chennai, Sep 12 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa on Monday expressed serious concern at the mob violence targeting Tamils in Karnataka and urged the neighbouring state’s government to provide them with necessary security. In…
Rio de Janeiro, Sep 12 (IANS) Shot putter Deepa Malik, who on Monday became the maiden Indian woman Paralympic medallist when she clinched silver at the 2016 Rio Games, said she wants to use the…
Patna, Sep 12 (IANS) The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Monday demanded that the Crime Control Act (CCA) be slapped against former Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Mohammad Shahabuddin who was released from Bhagalpur…
Bengaluru/New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) Widespread violence broke out in southern Karnataka on Monday over the apex court order to release Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu, with angry Kannadiga protesters torching over 30 buses…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) No agreement could be reached between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu on water sharing at a meeting of the Cauvery Supervisory Committee on Monday. It was however decided that the Central…