London, Aug 31 (IANS) Over 50,000 people die each year due to air pollution in Britain, a research team from Bristol reported ahead of a debate on Wednesday. Cars, buses and freight trucks are the…
Damascus, Aug 31 (IANS) The Islamic State (IS) militant group’s chief spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani has been killed in the Syrian province of Aleppo, IS-affiliated media said. Adnani was one of the longest-serving and most…
Hyderabad, Aug 31 (IANS) Eight persons were killed in a ghastly accident on Outer Ring Road near here, police said on Wednesday. A Tavera was crushed between two vehicles due to a collision at a…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) The Central Statistics Office (CSO) will release the national income numbers for the first quarter of this fiscal later on Wednesday amid hope that the economy has picked up further…
Mogadishu, Aug 31 (IANS) A truck bomb exploded outside a hotel in Somali capital Mogadishu, killing 22 people in a heavily secured area close to the presidential palace. A security conference was under way at…
Photo by CelebNMusic247 Los Angeles, Aug 31 (IANS) Singer Chris Brown was arrested on Tuesday after a woman claimed that he threatened her with a gun, police said. “Brown is going to be transported where…
Lucknow, Aug 30 (IANS) After furore over death of a 12-year-old boy for want of treatment in Kanpur as visuals of his desperate father carrying him on his shoulders surfaced on the social media, Uttar…
Bengaluru, Aug 30 (IANS) India would appeal against any verdict to protect itself from damages in the legal battle its space agency’s commercial arm Antrix Corporation is locked in with satellite firm Devas Multimedia Services…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) Former Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla, who had written a biography of Mother Teresa soon after she was conferred the Noble Peace Prize and the Bharat Ratna, on Tuesday said…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) The Union government on Tuesday appointed Sanjay Roy, Director (Media) in the Home Ministry’s Jammu and Kashmir Division as the nodal officer for grievances relating to Jammu and Kashmir’s people….
Bengaluru, Aug 30 (IANS) Riding on the success of its rocket launches and domain expertise in space technology, India secured new orders to launch 68 satellites for overseas customers, including a dozen from the US,…
Kathmandu, Aug 30 (IANS) Nepali authorities here on Tuesday slapped a 10-year ban against an Indian couple who claimed to have climbed the world’s tallest peak Mount Everest. The photographs presented by the couple said…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) The members of the all-party delegation during their two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, beginning September 4, will be free to meet any leader or individual or groups “including separatists”,…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) In a novel reach-out endeavour of the government, the Central Reserve Police Force has been roped in to extend benefits of skill development programmes to the people staying in violence-hit…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) India and the US on Tuesday reasserted the urgent necessity for Pakistan to dismantle safe havens for terrorist groups and criminal networks and said there can be no difference between…
Bengaluru, Aug 30 (IANS) Riding on the success of its rocket launches and domain expertise in space technology, India has secured new orders to launch 68 satellites for overseas customers, including a dozen from the…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) The Delhi government on Tuesday fixed a ceiling of Rs 600 as cost for chikungunya serology test at all private hospitals and laboratories. “We were receiving complaints that private hospitals…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) In a clear message to senior lawyers that they could not take liberty with the court by making a last minute request for pass-over or adjournment of a matter listed…
London, Aug 30 (IANS) The United Nations is under increasing pressure to set up an independent inquiry into its Syria aid programme after a Guardian newspaper investigation found “contracts worth tens of millions of dollars…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) India and the US on Tuesday agreed to add partnership in the travel and tourism sector to the existing work streams under the bilateral Strategic and Commercial Dialogue, Indian Commerce…