Jammu, March 4 (IANS) The BSF’s new Director General K.K. Sharma on Friday arrived here to inspect a 50-metre long tunnel unearthed on Thursday that facilitated infiltration from the Pakistani side of the international border,…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) A novel championship has been instituted to promote stock market investments through individuals or entities, registered as research analysts with stock exchanges’ regulator SEBI, its organiser said on Friday. Participants…
Jammu, March 4 (IANS) BSF Director General D.K. Pathak will be here on Friday to take stock of security on the international border following the discovery of a 50-metre long tunnel in R.S. Pura sector…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the CBI on a plea by the Delhi government seeking the return of documents that the investigating agency had taken from the…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Former Lok Sabha speaker P. A. Sangma died of a heart attack on Friday morning. He was 68 years old. Sangma served the sixteenth Lok Sabha as its speaker from…
Jamnagar (Gujarat), March 4 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday presented President’s Standard to 119 Helicopter Unit and President’s Colours to 28 Equipment Depot of the Indian Air Force here. One of the premier flying…
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New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) It was a warm morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature settling at 21.4 degrees Celsius, the weather office said. The day would remain partly cloudy with the…
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Aligarh, March 4 (IANS) US News Education World Report has placed Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) above Delhi University and second to Punjab University on their list of overall Best Global Universities rankings. Banaras Hindu University…
Mumbai, March 4 (IANS) Filmmaker Prakash Jha got annoyed when asked about the “unsatisfactory” promotions of his upcoming film, “Jai Gangaajal”, due to the “absence” of the lead star, Priyanka Chopra. Jha on Thursday held…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Over 2,500 students and teachers gathered at the admin block of Jawaharlal Nehru University on Thursday to welcome JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar. Kanhaiya, who has been accused of…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court is likely to hear on Friday a plea by the Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) and Association of Unified Telecom Service Provider of India challenging the…
Bhubaneswar, March 3 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday said the outlay of agriculture budget would be enhanced with a special focus to increase the area under irrigation and reduce farmers’ vulnerabilities to…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Leading budget phone maker Micromax on Thursday said its CEO Vineet Taneja resigned from the company to pursue other interests. “Vineet has moved on to pursue other interests. We would…
Lucknow, March 3 (IANS) Elections to the 28 seats of the Uttar Pradesh legislative council, the upper house of the state legislature, to be filled through local bodies, were held on Thursday across the state…
Itanagar, March 3 (IANS) In a major blow to the Congress, 30 rebel legislators in Arunachal Pradesh led by Chief Minister Kalikho Pul on Thursday merged with People’s Party of Arunachal (PPA), a regional political…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) The World Health Organization has set up a Newborn and Birth Defect Surveillance network, an initiative to keep a track of newborns with defects across the globe. The web-based surveillance…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Following the union budget 2016-17 proposal to incentivise gas exploration in difficult areas, the government is set to raise the price of domestic natural gas by around 60 percent for…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) The Centre will provide Rs.587 crore for a rail project to link India and Bangladesh, union minister Jitendra Singh said on Thursday. The project, one of the most important under…