New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) India will play a critical role in resolving global challenges, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday, adding that India-US relations were important not just for the two…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal felicitated Olympic medal winners shuttler P.V. Sindhu and wrestler Sakshi Malik and handed over to them cheques of Rs 2 crore and Rs 1 crore…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant here on Wednesday said India must aim for 9-10 per cent GDP growth for which the private sector also needs to pitch in along with…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) India’s gross domestic product (GDP) slowed to 7.1 per cent for the first quarter of this fiscal, from 7.5 per cent in the like period of 2015-16, due mainly to…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) US Secretary of State John Kerry called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Wednesday, the concluding day of his three-day visit to India. “Capping off an important visit, Secretary…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) Congress on Wednesday announced that both its newspapers National Herald (English) and Navjivan (Hindi) would resume publication, and has named Neelabh Mishra as Editor-in-Chief. According to the Congress, both the…
Islamabad, Aug 31 (IANS) An American-Canadian couple kidnapped by the Taliban in 2012 said in a latest video clip that has surfaced that their captors would execute them if the Afghanistan government did not change…
Panaji, Aug 31 (IANS) Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Wednesday expressed regret over the unceremonious removal of Subhash Velingkar as the state RSS chief. The Chief Minister initially refused to comment on the sacking…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 31 (IANS) Leading condom manufacturers HLL Lifecare Ltd, headquartered here, will export 1.3 million female condoms to African countries Gambia and Burkina Faso and Dominican Republic in the Caribbean, a company statement said…
Kolkata, Aug 31 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hailed the Supreme Court’s verdict in the Tata Motors’ Nano project case as a “landmark victory”, adding she had “tears of joy” on…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave its sanction for the major changes in the foreign direct investment policy approved in June and designed to liberalise norms by increasing FDI to…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) In the wake of the ruling by an international arbitration tribunal in favour of the Philippines in a dispute with China over the South China Sea, India and the US…
Leh, Aug 31 (IANS) Ladakh region in Jammu and Kashmir has suffered from years of neglect from the central government and ministers from Delhi come and make sweet promises only to forget, a top Buddhist…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday said Pakistan needs to push harder to fight against terrorism and to deal with groups like the Haqqani network and Lashkar-e-Taiba. In…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) Yogeshwar Dutt has made a sporting gesture, and said on Wednesday that he wants wrestler Besik Kudukhov’s family to retain the 2012 London Olympics silver of which the Russian was…
Hyderabad, Aug 31 (IANS) Heavy rains battered Hyderabad on Wednesday and inundated not just roads and low-lying residential areas but also hospitals and railway stations in the heart of the city. Water gushed into ESI…
Allahabad, Aug 31 (IANS) The Congress will form the next government in Uttar Pradesh, former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said on Wednesday. Addressing a rally here, the party’s chief ministerial candidate said in the…
Mumbai, Aug 31 (IANS) Indian equity markets were pushed higher on Wednesday ahead of the release of key macro-economic data, supported by fresh buying. The barometer 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the BSE touched a…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) In a bid to lift the fortunes of the beleaguered construction sector, the government on Wednesday approved new norms to ensure quicker resolution of disputes, kick-start stalled projects and make…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) In a set back to the Tatas, the Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside the land acquired by the previous Left Front government in West Bengal for the Nano car…