New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) In a tale of extreme parental cruelty, an alcoholic father flung to death his two-year-old ailing son into a Delhi canal, just three days after he abandoned his two starving…
Hyderabad, Aug 27 (IANS) India’s Rio Olympics medallists P.V. Sindhu and Sakshi Malik, gymnast Dipa Karmakar and badminton coach Pullela Gopichand will be gifted BMW cars at a function to be held here on Sunday….
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Former Janata Dal-United chief Sharad Yadav on Saturday said the Hurriyat Conference must be included in any proposed peace talks on Kashmir. “The Centre and the state governments must find…
Lucknow, Aug 27 (IANS) Former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who is also the Congress’s presumptive chief ministerial candidate in Uttar Pradesh, fell ill on Saturday during the ’27 Saal, UP Behaal’ campaign and had…
Bhubaneswar, Aug 27 (IANS) Amid nationwide outrage over a tribal man walking 10 km with his wife’s body on his shoulders in Odisha’s Kalahandi district, the state government on Saturday said such incidents would not…
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) The BRICS group of emerging economies need to soon set up a task force of officials to explore a mechanism for setting up arbitration centres for use by the grouping…
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) The US embassy has denied the allegation levelled by BJP MP Virendra Singh Mast that he was asked by embassy officials to remove his ‘pagdi’ or headgear for the visa…
Lauderhill (Florida) Aug 27 (IANS) India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to field in the first of the two-match T20 International series against the West Indies at the Central Broward Regional…
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday squarely blamed Pakistan and separatists for fuelling the ongoing trouble in the Kashmir Valley that has been seething with public anger and violent anti-government…
Beijing, 27 Aug (IANS) Some low-end inn operators in the Chinese port city of Guangzhou have been instructed by the local police to turn away guests from five major Muslim-majority Asian and Middle East nations,…
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) The leaked data on Scorpene submarine has changed a few hands, after being taken from DCNS by a subcontractor, before reaching the whistleblower who gave it to The Australian newspaper,…
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) BJP President Amit Shah said on Saturday that his party has ushered in an era of “politics of performance” in the country and asked the states to play a big…
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Sports Minister Vijay Goel on Saturday said that this year’s nominees for the National Sports awards, including Rio Olympics medallists — shuttler P.V. Sindhu and wrestler Sakshi Malik — will…
Kolkata, Aug 27 (IANS) There could be some concern about financing large infrastructure projects as the Reserve Bank of India’s new framework related to ‘large exposures’ proposes to reduce bank exposure to large corporate entities….
Chennai, Aug 27 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Saturday urged the central government to withdraw the recommendation for conducting an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for a dam across Siruvani river in Kerala….
Panaji, Aug 27 (IANS) GMR Airports Limited (GAL), a subsidiary of GMR Infrastructure Limited has won the international competitive bid for development and operation of the Mopa greenfield airport in North Goa. The concession period…
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal was likely to be arrested and then removed from her post as this…
Islamabad, Aug 27 (IANS) Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday nominated 22 parliamentarians as special envoys to highlight “the Indian brutalities and human rights abuses” in Jammu and Kashmir in key parts of the world….
London, Aug 27 (IANS) A 53-year-old woman was killed while descending a 3,000-feet mountain after her husband used a smartphone app to navigate instead of a paper map which apparently showed the wrong path, the…
By Preetha Nair Thimphu, Aug 27 (IANS) It may be wrong to say that the first day of the Mountain Echoes Literature Festival here began on a “positive note” as renowned author Amitav Ghosh painted…