Chandigarh, Jan 8 (IANS) Security has been beefed up in Rohtak and Sirsa towns in Haryana ahead of the judgment of a CBI court against Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in…
Kolkata: Bengal’s Mukesh Kumar in action on Day 2 of a Ranji Trophy match between Bengal and Punjab at Jadavpur University Campus 2nd Ground in Kolkata, on Jan 8, 2019. (Photo: Kuntal Chakrabarty/IANS) Kolkata: Bengal…
Hyderabad: A bank office bears a deserted look on the first day of the two-day long nationwide strike called by central trade unions (CTUs) to protest against “anti-labour, anti-people and anti-national policies” of the Narendra…
Ankara, Jan 8 (IANS) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday strongly rejected Washington’s calls for his country to protect US-backed Kurdish militias in Syria and said statements made by US National Security Adviser John…
Shimla, Jan 8 (IANS) A fire broke on Tuesday in the engine of a Shimla-bound train on the Kalka-Shimla track, a world heritage site, triggering panic among passengers. However, no one was injured in the…
Bengaluru, Jan 8 (IANS) The central government will extend support to Solapur in Maharashtra to become a hub for making uniforms, said a top official on Tuesday. “As Solapur has the potential to become a…
Shillong, Jan 8 (IANS) Condemning the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha, the North East Students Organisation (NESO) on Tuesday warned of more agitation across the northeastern states due to “another…
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday paved the way, for now, for the re-opening of the Vedanta’s Sterlite copper smelting plant in Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu’s as it put on hold…
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) The Congress on Tuesday said in the Lok Sabha that the government had brought the bill for 10 per cent quota to upper castes “in haste” after its loss in…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Jan 8 (IANS) Four women will dominate the global economic policy sphere with eminent academic Gita Gopinath becoming the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) chief economist. In a sign of growing…
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) As many as 48 teams will take part in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) Soccer Cup 2019 to be hosted by Barca Academy India at Gurugram from January 24- 27. Barca Academy…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 8 (IANS) The two-day nationwide strike called by trade unions was near total in Kerala on Tuesday and was by and large peaceful, with train services badly hit. Barring the BJP-backed BMS trade…
Shimla, Jan 8 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh government on Tuesday proposed to the Governor to convene the budget session of the Assembly from February 4 to 27. A decision in this regard was taken at…
Bengaluru, Jan 8 (IANS) The Premier Badminton League (PBL) has been witnessing some nerve-wracking close matches and with the season 4 reaching the penultimate stages, defending champions Hyderabad Hunters will take on bottom-placed Delhi Dashers…
Agartala, Jan 8 (IANS) Six tribal youths, agitating against the NDA government’s controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, were injured in police firing in Tripura on Tuesday, police said. “Some tribal youths while demonstrating against the…
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) In a partial relief to CBI Director Alok Verma, the Supreme Court on Tuesday restored him as the agency chief by setting aside the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) and the…
