Imphal, June 30 (IANS) Hundreds of trucks were stranded in Manipur after heavy rains caused landslides in Tamenglong district, officials said. The trucks are loaded with construction material and consumer items and were coming from…
Gurgaon/Faridabad, June 30 (IANS) “Gau Raksha Dal” volunteers who forced two beef transporters to eat a concoction of cow dung have been booked for outraging religious feelings, Haryana Police said on Thursday. Two men, Rizwan…
Islamabad, June 30 (IANS) Days after India joined the Missile Technology Control Regime, Pakistan authorities on Thursday said that Islamabad would choose to become a part of the regime at an “appropriate” time. Pakistan, despite…
Islamabad, June 30 (IANS) The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of police in Pakistan’s Karachi city has arrested six suspects who were planning to kill 100 citizens in the port-city during the holy month of Ramadan, a…
Bhubaneswar, June 30 (IANS) India on Thursday successfully test-fired a medium-range surface-to-air ballistic missile, developed jointly with Israel, off the coast of Odisha, officials said. The missile, having a strike range of 70 km, is…
Islamabad, June 30 (IANS) Pakistan on Thursday hinted that negotiations on the funding of F-16 fighter jets for Islamabad may still be possible with Washington. “US Senator John McCain will be visiting Pakistan soon to…
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Thursday said that contrary to media reports it is not hosting any Iftar party and the reports to this effect are “factually incorrect”. “The…
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) India’s failure to get into the NSG has exposed the Narendra Modi government’s “false and illusory idea of India’s importance”, the CPI-M has said. “The judgment and sense of proportion…
Kabul, June 30 (IANS) Two suicide explosions hit a line of Afghan police buses in the western part of Kabul on Thursday, leaving at least 30 people dead, authorities said. The attack, claimed by the…
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing, June 30 (IANS) China on Thursday slammed the US over its diplomat’s remarks that Beijing had blocked India’s entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), saying it had “no regard” for…
Mumbai, June 30 (IANS) Healthy progress of monsoon rains, coupled with short covering on the back of latest key economic decisions and positive global cues, lifted the Indian equity markets to their highest intra-day levels…
Hyderabad, June 30 (IANS) A special NIA court here on Thursday sent five Islamic State (IS) suspects to judicial custody till July 14. The five accused arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday…
Mumbai: Actor Salman Khan during the promotion of film Sultan on the sets of colors tv serial Udaan, in Mumbai, on June 21, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) The National Commission for…
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) Concerned by continuous rise in prices of pulses – both at the retail and wholesale markets, the central government on Thursday adopted multi-pronged strategy to deal with the crisis which…
Islamabad, June 30 (IANS) Pakistan on Thursday demanded more evidence from India on the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in order to bring the case to its “logical end”, the Foreign Office spokesperson said here. “Foreign…
Ankara, June 30 (IANS) The deaths from bombing attacks in Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport has risen to 43, Turkish officials said on Thursday. Nineteen of the victims were foreign nationals, and the evidence pointed to the…
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) The inquiry into controversial land deals in Haryana including those of Robert Vadra has become vitiated because Justice S.N. Dhingra who headed it took “favours” from the state government, the…
Guwahati, June 30 (IANS) A one-horned female rhino has been killed in the Orang National Park in Assam. The suspected poachers took away its horn, forest officials said on Thursday. “The carcass of a female…
Kabul, June 30 (IANS) At least 27 people were killed and around 40 were wounded when two Taliban suicide bombers detonated their explosives in buses carrying police cadets on the western outskirts of Kabul, officials…
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday dedicated to the nation an indigenously-developed converged communications network for the armed forces — a major step towards ensuring their network centricity. The state-of-the-art,…