Bengaluru, Aug 25 (IANS) Karnataka plans to make a law to get waived the loans farmers and landless agricultural labourers took from moneylenders to provide them debt relief, said an official on Saturday. “The state…
Hyderabad, Aug 25 (IANS) Amid growing talks of early elections to Telangana Legislative Assembly, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. Though officially it was stated that…
Dublin, Aug 25 (IANS) Pope Francis on Saturday said he is ashamed of the Catholic Church’s failure to adequately address the “repellent crimes” of sex abuse by clergy and that the “failure of ecclesiastical authorities”…
Harbin (China), Aug 25 (IANS) At least 19 people were killed on Saturday in a hotel fire in Harbin, capital of China’s Heilongjiang province, officials said. The fire started at 4.36 a.m. at Beilong Hot…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 25 (IANS) Survivors of Kerala’s worst floods in a century on Saturday set aside their misery, even if only temporarily, to celebrate Onam in numerous relief camps across the state, relishing the traditional…
San Francisco, Aug 25 (IANS) Paying heed to his investors’ feedback, Tesla Chairman and CEO Elon Musk has decided not to veer the electric carmaker off the road and let it remain a publicly traded…
Shimla, Aug 25 (IANS) Traffic on the Chandigarh-Manali national highway has been blocked following a massive landslide along the Beas river in Himachal Pradesh, police said on Saturday. However, there were no reports of any…
Washington, Aug 25 (IANS) A former Trump World Tower doorman has said that he knows of an alleged affair between President Donald Trump and a former housekeeper which resulted in a child out of wedlock,…
London, Aug 25 (IANS) Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday said there is a monopoly of the PMO on the External Affairs Ministry and that External Affairs Minister…
Jakarta/Palembang (Indonesia), Aug 24 (IANS) A best-ever haul in rowing, underlined by a gold medal, a title winning performance in men’s doubles tennis and yet another historic defeat in kabaddi were the highlights of the…
Islamabad, Aug 24 (IANS) Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday said that the US handout on a phone call between Prime Minister Imran Khan and US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo which mentioned…
By Sanu George Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 24 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday put the number of dead in rains and floods at 417 as hundreds began returning home from relief camps, still leaving…
Hyderabad, Aug 24 (IANS) The Telangana government on Friday announced that priests at Hindu temples in the state will be paid salaries at par with government employees while ‘imams’ and muezzins at mosques will be…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 24 (IANS) To raise additional funds towards the Chief Ministers Distress Relief Fund (CMDRF) following the floods in Kerala, Finance Minister Thomas Issac on Friday announced a special lottery. Issac told the media…
New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday moved closer to live streaming of its proceedings as it said that it was an expansion of the concept of open court hearing of matters…
Kozhikode, Aug 24 (IANS) The Kerala unit of the BJP on Friday said that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) did not announce financial aid of $100 million for the flood-ravaged state. It demanded that Chief…
Canberra, Aug 24 (IANS) Former treasurer Scott Morrison is set to replace to Malcolm Turnbull as Australia’s sixth Prime Minister in just over 10 years, following a leadership vote on Friday which ended a week…
By Gurmukh Singh Vancouver, Aug 24 (IANS) An Indo-Canadian businessman, who is originally from Bhuj, Gujarat, has been awarded $1.2 million in damages after he was defamed in a series of fake news articles instigated…
Washington, Aug 24 (IANS) US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has responded to President Donald Trump’s latest attack on him by insisting that the justice department he heads will not bend to political pressure. The apparent…
Valsad/Gandhinagar, Aug 23 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday set rolling a new slogan, ‘Saaf Niyat, Sahi Vikas’, about his government as he gave away over 1 lakh houses to women under the flagship…