New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday sought the Maharashtra government’s response on petitions contending that the ban on slaughtering of cattle in the state and sale of beef impinged on the…
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) The Delhi government on Friday sent a file on hiking minimum wages back to Lt Governor Najeeb Jung for approval after correcting errors that he had pointed out, a government…
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) The Shipping Ministry on Friday said that it is planning to develop Paradip as a world class, global competitive and smart industrial port city. The rationale behind developing Paradip as…
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday slammed the city government’s religious committee, set up to look into unauthorised religious structures built on government lands, for not functioning properly and thus…
Srinagar, Sep 2 (IANS) As his colleagues battle violence in the Kashmir Valley, a junior level police officer has found time to marry a girl born in Muzaffarabad — the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Owais…
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that India and Egypt will cooperate in the fight against terrorism through greater information and operational exchanges while calling upon the Indian private…
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he was not worried about how history would judge him because he loves living in the present and was just one among India’s 1.25…
Chandigarh, Sep 2 (IANS) Terming former BJP parliamentarian Navjot Singh Sidhu’s new political front ‘Awaaz-e-Punjab’ as comprising of ‘disgruntled’ leaders, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday said it would hardly have any impact…
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said it is “unfortunate” that any developmental work is invariably linked to polls and strongly pitched for three-tier simultaneous polls for parliament, state assemblies…
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Friday defended the practice of triple talaq and polygamy, professing that polygamy is a social need and a blessing and not…
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) Works of masters like S.H. Raza, K.G. Subramanyan, F.N. Souza, Tyeb Mehta and M.F. Husain, among others, will go under the hammer here on Saturday. Organised by Art Deal auction…
Srinagar, Sep 2 (IANS) Over 50 people were injured in clashes between stone-pelting mobs and security forces in the Kashmir Valley on Friday even as strict curfew was imposed to foil separatist-called protest rallies, police…
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed an investigation report in a coal block allocation case involving former Congress MP and industrialist Naveen Jindal, ex-Minister of State for…
Colombo, Sep 2 (IANS) Hundreds of relatives of those missing during and after Sri Lanka’s 30-year-long civil conflict on Friday urged UN Chief Ban Ki-moon to launch an international probe to find their whereabouts. The…
Chennai, Sep 2 (IANS) Declaring that the continuous decline in Indian exports since last year had finally been arrested, Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said growth in exports will now be slow and steady….
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) Reaffirming their resolve to strengthen cooperation in combating terrorism at all levels, India and Egypt on Friday strongly condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. The two countries, in…
Dhaka, Sep 2 (IANS) Bangladesh war criminal and death row convict Mir Quasem Ali has decided not to seek presidential clemency, the last option to avoid the gallows. The 63-year-old Jamaat-e-Islami leader and business tycoon…
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) The Arvind Kejriwal government on Friday informed the Supreme Court that it was withdrawing its suit seeking declaration of Delhi as a state because it had already filed six petitions…
Rajgir, Sep 2 (IANS) Private donors from Thailand gave $27,000 for the School of Buddhist Studies, Philosophy and Comparative Religions at Nalanda University, a varsity official said on Friday. “On August 27, 2016, the Thai…
Chennai, Sep 2 (IANS) Union Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said the fall in exports has been arrested and 12 sectors have logged export growth in value terms. Speaking at the Regional…