Jammu, Dec 28 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s brother Tassaduq Hussain Mufti was sworn in on Thursday as a Minister in the PDP-BJP coalition government and given the important portfolio of Tourism….
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed a bill that criminalises instant divorce with three years of imprisonment for Muslim husbands after the government rejected an overwhelming demand from the Opposition…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has issued directions to thermal power plants to ensure compliance with its revised implementation plan for installation of flue gas de-sulphurisation (FGD) and other…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) The total number of Internet subscribers in India declined from 431.21 million at the end of June 2017 to 429.23 million at the end of September 2017, registering a quarterly…
Guwahati, Dec 28 (IANS) Assam’s island district Majuli is all set to get an Ayurvedic hospital as Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday laid the foundation stone for a 50-bedded hospital in Sriram Chapori of…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) The CBI on Thursday arrested a Delhi Police Sub-Inspector for demanding and accepting Rs 1.20 lakh in cash from a person who complained against him for his involvement in an…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said dust coming in from the Gulf and stubble burning were the major reasons behind an air pollution crisis here in November, adding…
Naypyidaw, Dec 28 (IANS) Two foreign journalists who were jailed for flying a drone near Myanmar’s Parliament will be released on January 5, the authorities said on Thursday. The crew — cameraman Lau Hon Meng…
Cape Town, Dec 28 (IANS) South Africa pacer Morne Morkel on Thursday said he was delighted with the time for rest given ahead of the series against India in the first week of January. South…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi will visit Himachal Pradesh on Friday to review the poll debacle which saw the BJP wresting the state from the party with a comfortable majority in…
Berlin, Dec 28 (IANS) The Berlin police on Thursday launched a search operation for four convicts who escaped from a local prison through a hole in the wall. According to the city authorities, the four…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) Those who marry and abandon their wives should be punished and the government should bring a law to this effect, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said in Parliament on Thursday. “If…
Islamabad, Dec 28 (IANS) Pakistan on Thursday strongly condemned the suicide terror attack on a cultural centre in Afghan capital Kabul which claimed 41 lives and injured over 80. “We express our heartfelt condolences with…
Srinagar, Dec 28 (IANS) Three militants of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit were arrested in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Thursday, police said here. The three, arrested by the security forces in the district’s…
Nelson (New Zealand), Dec 28 (IANS) After staying winless in the Test and One-Day International (ODI) series, the West Indies will aim to bounce back in the first Twenty20 International (T20I) against New Zealand at…
Mumbai, Dec 28 (IANS) The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Thursday gave its nod to the convergence of both equities and commodity-backed stocks on exchanges from October 2018. The decision taken at…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) The CBI has registered a case against five former senior officers of the Electronics Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL) and a Germany-based company along with others for alleged irregularities in…
Ranchi, Dec 28 (IANS) Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Thursday announced that 50,000 appointments will be made in the state government by June 2018. “More than one lakh appointments have been made by the…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) Senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan on Thursday wrote to Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra saying that he is taking back his statement regarding giving up legal practice. In the letter,…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday led a protest in the Parliament over Union Minister Anant Kumar Hegde’s “amend the Constitution” remarks as the party said “there is a systematic…