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…
Gurgaon, Aug 27 (IANS) About 50 people were arrested here for passing inappropriate comments on women or misbehaving with them in a special drive called “Majnu Returns”, police said on Saturday. The drive was conducted…
Dhaka, Aug 27 (IANS) Bangladesh police on Saturday said they have killed the mastermind of last month’s terror attack on a Dhaka cafe and two other militants during a raid on a house outside the…
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday slammed Pakistan and separatist leaders for fuelling unrest in Jammu and Kashmir and hoped that a “very concerned” Prime Minister Narendra Modi would get…
By Mohit Dubey Varanasi, Aug 27 (IANS) Lakhs of people have been affected by the raging floods in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Varanasi parliamentary constituency but this hasn’t detered a mixed group of 49 corporators…
Chennai, Aug 27 (IANS) India’s foreign exchange reserves went up to $367.16 billion as on August 19, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Saturday. According to the foreign exchange data released by the…
Srinagar, Aug 27 (IANS) Curfew and restrictions continued for the 50th day across the Kashmir Valley on Saturday with no let up in separatist-called shutdown as the death toll rose to 71 after the body…
Rajgir (Bihar), Aug 27 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday attended the maiden convocation ceremony of Nalanda University and launched the ground-breaking ceremony for construction of the sprawling university campus here, an official said. President…