By Hardev Sanotra Rio de Janeiro, Aug 5 (IANS) Brazil did its best to roll out the red carpet for athletes, officials and visitors from over 200 countries for the 31st Olympic Games being held…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 5 (IANS) Emblematic monuments and buildings in at least twelve countries such as Paris’s Hotel de Ville, Brazil’s Christ the Redeemer and Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium have lit up with green and…
United Nations, Aug 5 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is in Brazil to take part in the Olympic torch relay on Friday, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric has said. “The secretary-general has just arrived in Rio…
Washington, Aug 5 (IANS) US President Barack Obama called himself a feminist in an essay published on Thursday in Glamour magazine, urging all men to keep fighting against gender stereotypes and double standards. Thursday is…
Kabul/Islamabad, Aug 5 (IANS) A Pakistani helicopter made a crash landing in a remote district of eastern Afghanistan’s Logar province on Thursday, crew unhurt but reportedly taken hostage by Taliban, a provincial government spokesman said….
Rome, Aug 4 (IANS/AKI) Italy’s national anti-corruption agency said Thursday it has begun an investigation into Rome’s troubled municipal waste management company as stinking garbage continued to pile up uncollected on the streets of the…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 4 (IANS) Kerala’s Local Self Government Minister K.T. Jaleel, who was asked by the state government to fly to Saudi Arabia to coordinate efforts with Kerala cultural groups amid reports of hundreds of…
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung on Thursday said the High Court judgement confirming his primacy over the Delhi government was not about anyone’s triumph or defeat. “It’s just about the…
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) Cutting across party lines, states across the country have expressed willingness to join hands with the central government in rolling out the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime — but…
Bhopal, Aug 4 (IANS) Women students of Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) here on Thursday created a ruckus and boycotted classes over official orders to allow them entry into hostels only till 9.30…
Raigad (Maharashtra), Aug 4 (IANS) At least 42 people are missing in Wednesday’s Mahad bridge collapse tragedy on the raging Savitri River, in which two state transport buses and four-five private vehicles were washed away,…
Ahmedabad, Aug 4 (IANS) The Gujarat High Court on Thursday sentenced, to life terms, all 11 persons convicted of burning a man and his daughter to death in Mehsana district during the 2002 communal riots….
Raigad (Maharashtra), Aug 4 (IANS) Maharashtra Housing Minister Prakash Mehta on Thursday faced flak for clicking a selfie near a bridge that collapsed in the flood in Savitri river and later misbehaving with media persons…
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) Congress President Sonia Gandhi, admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital following dehydration and fever, is also undergoing treatment for a shoulder injury, said a doctor. An internationally acclaimed team of…
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) The Union government on Thursday welcomed the Delhi High Court’s verdict that the Lt Governor is the administrative head of the National Capital Territory and advised the AAP to shun…
Kolkata, Aug 4 (IANS) Describing the theft of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel Prize medallion as a shame, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said given a chance, she could endeavour to retrieve the stolen…
Mumbai, Aug 4 (IANS) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday said it has set up a committee which will study various facets of household finance in India. According to RBI, the committee will…
Ahmedabad, Aug 4 (IANS) BSP chief Mayawati on Thursday visited the Dalits beaten up by self-styled cow vigilantes and blamed the BJP and RSS for rising incidents of attacks on Dalits in the country. The…
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) A court here on Thursday sentenced Mahmood Farooqui, the co-director of acclaimed 2010 Hindi film “Peepli Live”, to seven years’ jail after finding him guilty of raping an American woman….
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) In a major setback to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi High Court on Thursday ruled that the Lt. Governor (LG) had primacy over the Delhi administration. LG Najeeb Jung…