Dhaka, Aug 5 (IANS) Bangladesh sleuths have zeroed in on five persons who hacked to death two prominent gay rights activists in April this year and are set to arrest them, media reports said on…
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) The situation in Assam’s Kokrajhar town, where 13 civilians were killed in a terror attack on Friday, is being monitored by the Ministry of Home Affairs in coordination with state…
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) The Congress on Friday attacked the Narendra Modi government for what it said were “insult and ill treatment” meted out to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh during his two-day trip…
Mumbai, Aug 5 (IANS) Short covering along with positive global and domestic cues lifted the Indian equity markets on Friday. Consequently, the key indices closed the day’s trade with substantial gains as healthy buying was…
Ahmedabad, Aug 5 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday evening announced the name of Vijay Rupani as the 16th Chief Minister of Gujarat, with senior cabinet minister Nitin Patel as Deputy Chief Minister. The…
Srinagar, Aug 5 (IANS) A civilian was killed and scores were injured in fresh violent protests across Kashmir Valley on Friday despite strict curfew enforced to stop people from holding pro-freedom demonstrations, police and witnesses…
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) Miffed over the treatment he received in Pakistan, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said India has always tried to be friendly with its reluctant neighbour but “yeh padosi hai…
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Friday termed the militant attack in Asssam’s Kokrajhar town as “most unfortunate” especially as peace had returned to the state…
Mumbai, Aug 5 (IANS) Heavy rains since Friday morning led to waterlogging in many parts of the city and suburbs, and disrupted rail and road traffic and flight operations, officials said. The downpour since daybreak,…
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) A Delhi Court has ordered seven days’ imprisonment to a driver who had allegedly misbehaved with the police in an inebriated condition, and said “such offenders required to be dealt…
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that there has been “remarkable improvement” in the situation in Kashmir Valley which witnessed violent protests following the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen…
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) Barely four days before the central bank’s monetary policy update, the government on Friday set an annual inflation target of four per cent, plus or minus two percentage points, for…
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) In yet another move to attract customers before the launch of Reliance Jio 4G services, two dominant players Airtel and Vodafone India on Friday announced another set of attractive packages….
Chandigarh, Aug 5 (IANS) Controversial Punjab Police officer Salwinder Singh, facing allegations of rape and corruption, on Friday did not appear before a committee probing a sexual harassment complaint filed by five women constables. Salwinder,…
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) Maintaining that fund constraints will not affect the work of Border Roads Organisation (BRO), Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Friday asserted that China has not constructed any road in Indian…
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) The Narendra Modi government is “conscious” of the need to provide universal health coverage and steps are being taken to increase the number of health insurance schemes, parliament was told…
Ahmedabad, Aug 5 (IANS) State BJP president Vijay Rupani is to be the new Gujarat Chief Minister, replacing Anandiben Patel who resigned earlier this week. Nitin Patel, the senior-most minister in the Anandiben Patel cabinet,…
Guwahati, Aug 5 (IANS) In Assam’s worst terror attack since 2014, gunmen in military fatigues opened fire at a crowded market in Kokrajhar town on Friday, killing 13 civilians. One of the attackers was also…
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is to visit India next week for holding talks with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Vikas Swarup said on…
Dhaka, Aug 5 (IANS) A Bangladeshi madrassa student who had murdered a Hindu priest earlier this year and was behind a terror attack on Eid in Dhaka was killed in a “gunfight” with security forces,…