Kolkata, Aug 27 (IANS) Dissident Congress legislator Manas Bhunia on Saturday sought immediate sacking of state party chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, saying he would write to Party President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi…
Lauderhill (Florida), Aug 27 (IANS) Promising batsman Lokesh Rahul’s 110 not out went in vain as West Indies managed to sneak past India by one run in the nail-biting first T20 International at the Central…
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Asking BJP Chief Ministers to work on “mission mode” for better implementation of central government schemes in their states, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday set up a party committee…
Srinagar, Aug 27 (IANS) Radio Kashmir suddenly went off air on Saturday evening, fuelling strong speculations in the Valley till authorities clarified it was a technical snag in the station’s transmitter situated in city outskirts….
Dhaka, Aug 27 (IANS) Bangladesh police stormed a militant hideout near Dhaka on Saturday, shooting dead three alleged Islamist extremists, including the suspected mastermind of the cafe attack that killed 22 mostly foreign hostages last…
Dhaka, Aug 27 (IANS) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said that the Rampal power plant project, being jointly built with India, will not affect the world’s largest mangrove forest Sundarbans. The agreement to…
Islamabad, Aug 27 (IANS) Pakistan on Saturday decided to escalate its diplomatic lobbying on Kashmir, with 22 parliamentarians to go as special envoys to various countries to apprise them about the “brutalities and human rights…
Lauderhill (Florida), Aug 27 (IANS) Riding on opener Evin Lewis’ century, West Indies posted 245/6 in the first T20 International against India at the Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground here on Saturday. Down…
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…