Leh, Sep 19 (IANS) A 60-foot-tall silk embroidery brocade of Buddha Amitabha was unfurled on Monday at once-in-12-years carnival of spirituality, culture and tradition near the 17th century Hemis monastery of Drukpa lineage, the largest…
Bengaluru, Sep 19 (IANS) State-run Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) on Monday announced the appointment of Anandi Ramalingam as its first woman whole-time director. Ramalingam, who assumed charge as director (marketing), was General Manager of the…
Kozhikode (Kerala) Sep 19 (IANS) Former state BJP President V. Muraleedharan, who has been seeking a probe into the sources of income of children of top state politicians, on Monday deposed before the Vigilance Bureau….
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) India reserves the right to respond to cross-border terror strikes “at a place and time of our choosing”, the Army said on Monday, a day after a terror attack on…
Auckland, Sep 19 (IANS) India is a strong votary of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ — the world is one family — and would always stand firm against terrorism, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said here on Monday….
Kolkata, Sep 19 (IANS) The Congress suffered a big jolt in West Bengal, as its former state chief Manas Bhunia and a host of other frontline party leaders including provincial office-bearers, crossed over to the…
Ranchi, Sep 19 (IANS) The Jharkhand government on Monday announced compensation of Rs 10 lakh each for the families of the two soldiers from the state killed in a militant attack on an army camp…
Mumbai, Sep 19 (IANS) Sorrow and anger on Monday gripped four small villages in Maharashtra which lost four young soldiers to Sunday’s terror attack on an army camp in Jammu and Kashmir. The four soldiers…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) The government on Monday informed the Supreme Court that three major search engines — Microsoft, Google and Yahoo — have agreed to auto block ads promoting sex determination tests as…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) Indian doctors at a hospital here have provided a new lease of life to a 61-year-old Pakistani man suffering from heart disease as well as deteriorating kidneys. Zafar Khan, who…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) Online cab aggregator Ola has teamed up with the Hauz Khas Village Traders Association to encourage patrons of pubs and bars in the south Delhi area to take an Ola…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) The opening scene of “Mangoes” shows two Pakistani expatriates and Indian women relishing mangoes together, recollecting their childhood memories. However, the scene suddenly turns ugly as they start comparing the…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) Delhi Metro services were delayed during Monday morning peak hours as a commuter aboard a Noida-bound train fainted at the Ramesh Nagar Metro station. “A passenger had fainted at the…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) A day after BJP strategist Ram Madhav suggested “for one tooth, a complete jaw” following the killing 18 soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP on Monday mostly kept mum…
Patna, Sep 19 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed grief over the loss of 35 lives in a 50-seater bus’s accident in Bihar on Monday. The bus was going from Madhubani to Sitamarhi when the…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) A day after terrorists killed 18 Indian soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday called on President Pranab Mukherjee “and held discussions”, the Rashtrapati Bhavan tweeted….
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) The Cauvery Supervisory Committee on Monday ordered the Karnataka government to release 3,000 cusecs of river water daily to Tamil Nadu between September 21 and 30 but that state did…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday called on President Pranab Mukherjee “and held discussions”, the Rashtrapati Bhavan tweeted.
Chennai, Sep 19 (IANS) The way to bridge the capital shortfall by Indian public sector banks is to slow down the growth of their loan book to single digits, said global credit rating agency Moody’s…
Guwahati, Sep 19 (IANS) Condemning the attack on an army base in Uri, Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday said Pakistan had become a hub of terror. Islamabad had been sponsoring subversive…