New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) The opposition in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday condemned the rustication of three students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) the action. Raising the issue, CPI-M member Tapan Kumar Sen…
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) Kashmir remains the “core issue” with India, Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry told his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar as they met on the sidelines of a global conference on…
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) The much-awaited foreign secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan got underway here today with Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar meeting his Pakistani counterpart Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry in South Block here…
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met with some students of the NIT Srinagar and assured them that the party will raise their concerns over campus safety with the…
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) Nominated members including Subramanian Swamy and Mary Kom, took their oath to Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Kom, Swamy, journalist Swapan Dasgupta and former planning commission member Narendra Jadhav were among…
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) The condition of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here on Monday night with fever and chest congestion, was…
Guwahati, April 26 (IANS) A bogie of the Poorvattar Sampark Kranti Express derailed on Tuesday in Assam, disrupting train services between Lumding and Silchar. There were no casualties, an official said. The incident took place…
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) A massive fire on Tuesday morning destroyed the National Museum of Natural History located on the sixth floor of the Ficci auditorium in central Delhi. According the officials, almost everything…
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) Ahead of the Heart of Asia conference on peace and stability that will host for the first time, Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar held a bilateral meeting with Afghan Deputy Foreign…
By Vikas Datta Title: Shanghai Redemption; Author: Qiu Xiaolong; Publisher: Mullholland Books; Pages: 322; Price: Rs.399 A country may be democratic or authoritarian, but the regime will always maintain influence, covert at least, on police,…
Chennai, April 26 (IANS) The 51.30 hour countdown for the launch of India’s seventh and final navigation satellite on April 28 afternoon begun at 9.20 a.m on Tuesday at Sriharikota rocket port of Indian Space…
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) It was a sunny Tuesday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 21.2 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky would remain…
By Amitava Mukherjee There is now a distinct possibility that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) may be engulfed by an internecine struggle as Mamata Banerjee, the party supremo, has been trying to distance herself from the…
By Govindraj Ethiraj The rise in credit card outstandings in itself is not so much of a worry as much as two accompanying factors. First, industrial credit or loans made to businesses or corporations…
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar will meet his Pakistani counterpart Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry here on Tuesday morning in the first formal talks between the two nations after the January 2 attack…
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) A massive fire early Tuesday engulfed the Ficci auditorium in central Delhi, police said. Five fire officials were injured while trying to contain the blaze which broke out around 1.48…
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was taken to All India Institute Medical Sciences late Monday over complaints of chest pain. Doctors at…
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed sadness on the death of social worker Poornimaben Pakvasa, the mother of renowned Odissi classical dancer Sonal Mansingh, on Monday. “Sad to hear about demise…
Jammu, April 25 (IANS) The Indian Army Monday said it has apprehended two residents of Pakistani Kashmir residents who had crossed into India over the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district….
Kolkata: People queue up to cast their votes at a polling booth during the fourth phase of West Bengal Legislative Assembly polls in Kolkata, on April 25, 2016. (Photo: Kuntal Chakrabarty/IANS) Kolkata, April 25 (IANS)…