New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Hundreds of Congress activists were detained here on Wednesday when they tried to break the barricades to march to Parliament protesting against price rise, police said. “Nearly 200 people have…
Mumbai, July 20 (IANS) Value buying and positive European indices buoyed the Indian equity markets on Wednesday. Consequently, the key indices provisionally closed the day’s trade in the green, as healthy buying was witnessed in…
Berlin, July 20 (IANS) An Afghan teenager who attacked passengers on a German train with an axe, badly injuring four people, was out to avenge the death of his friend in Afghanistan, said prosecutors in…
Islamabad, July 20 (IANS) A Pakistani Senator on Wednesday said Islamabad was being gradually isolated on an international level. Farhatullah Babar was addressing a full house committee session of the Senate where he said new…
Dhaka, July 20 (IANS) A Dhaka court on Wednesday charged five activists of a banned militant outfit for the 2015 murder of popular blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, who wrote against the Jamaat-e-Islami and radical Islamists….
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Congress President Sonia Gandhi, launching a frontal attack on the Modi government, said that it was “anchored in slick marketing events, glib marketing slogans, repackaging and in embellishment and exaggeration”….
Siliguri, July 20 (IANS) Three members of a family, including a minor, were crushed to death on Wednesday when their house collapsed in a landslide in northern West Bengal’s Darjeeling district, an official said. The…
London, July 20 (IANS) British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday said the UK will not take up its six-month presidency of the European Council in 2017. In the first concrete signs of the country’s…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Hockey legend Mohammed Shahid died on Wednesday in a Gurgaon hospital after battling kidney and liver problems. He was 56. Shahid, one of the greatest names in Indian hockey, was…
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing, July 20 (IANS) Torrential rains across China have prompted the met department to issue an orange alert, the second-highest of its four-tier weather warning system. Incessant rains have triggered floods in…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Arunachal Pradesh assembly Speaker Nabam Rebia on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court seeking review of its verdict that it is “constitutionally impermissible” for the Speaker to decide on the plea…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Delhi Police on Wednesday registered a case against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Somnath Bharti for allegedly instigating some of his supporters to misbehave with a woman. Additional Deputy Commissioner…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) A court here on Wednesday granted three-day interim bail to arrested senior official of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, B.K. Bansal, for performing the last rites of his wife and…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Even as the opposition parties trained their guns at the BJP for the anti-Dalit violence in Gujarat, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday complimented the state government for acting…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday condemned the “atrocities” against Dalits and minorities in the country and said her party will raise in Parliament the issue of a Dalit committing…
Mumbai, July 20 (IANS) Indian equity markets were trading flat on Wednesday afternoon, led by negative global cues and profit booking, coupled with apprehensions over quarterly results. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) The Delhi government on Wednesday ordered a magisterial probe into the alleged suicide of a female Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) worker. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has asked North Delhi’s…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday asserted that India’s inability at Seoul to get membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) was not a “failure” and that the country…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said “militants must be dealt with firmly, even though an introspection was required as to what had driven scores of youths to such levels…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Hundreds of Congress supporters and leaders on Wednesday protested here against the hike in the rates of essential commodities and slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not fulfilling the promises…