Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Revised pensions under the ‘One Rank One Pension’ (OROP) scheme have been given to over two lakh defence pensioners along with the…
Mumbai, March 14 (IANS) Key Indian equity market indices ended higher on Monday following global cues and on hopes of better retail inflation numbers expected later in the day. A benchmark index for Indian equities,…
Kolkata, March 14 (IANS) A simple click of a button will soon tell you which animals live where in India, courtesy a GIS-enabled web-based platform where information on over 96,000 species will be provided by…
Bhubaneswar, March 14 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday urged the central government to direct the ASI to send its best experts for repairing the hall facing the sanctum sanctorum of Shri Jagannath…
New Delhi: War veterans return their medals to press for faster implementation of OROP at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Nov 10, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai, March 14 (IANS) The State Bank of India…
Kolkata, March 14 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress and the opposition in West Bengal on Monday indulged in a war of words after a sting operation by a news website accused several ruling party leaders of…
Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar. (File Photo: IANS) Panaji, March 14 (IANS) The first day proceedings of Goa assembly’s budget session got off to a stormy start on Monday, with the Opposition accusing the state…
Chennai, March 14 (IANS) A 23-year-old Dalit man who married into the politically influential Thevar community was hacked to death in front of a large number of people in a Tamil Nadu town, police said…
Imphal, March 14 (IANS) The Manipur government may have to close down a new temporary marketing complex here which was built to house women vendors whose shops were damaged in the January 4 earthquake. Women…
Patna, March 14 (IANS) RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Monday credited his wife and former chief minister Rabri Devi for the change in the RSS’s dress code from khaki shorts to trousers. “Rabri Devi has…
Ghaziabad, March 14 (IANS) A CBI court here on Monday extended the judicial remand of Noida’s former chief engineer Yadav Singh till March 26 in a corruption case. Yadav Singh was presented in the court…
Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das. (File Photo: IANS) Ranchi, March 14 (IANS) There are no plans to hike the job quota limits in Jharkhand from the exiting 50 percent, Chief Minister Raghubar Das said on…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) A large chunk of the Gilgit-Baltistan area, part of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, has been allegedly occupied by the neighbouring north-west frontier province, triggering protests in the Shia-dominated region, also claimed by…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) A total of 323 villages in nine states were electrified during last week, ending March 13, under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna, an official statement said on Monday….
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday asked the government to assess crop damage following hailstorms in the country and provide adequate compensation to…
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday directed Divisional Commissioner A. Anbarasu to estimate the damage caused to the farmers due to…
Chennai, March 14 (IANS) A 23-year-old man was hacked to death in broad daylight on a busy road in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruppur district by some unidentified men and his wife was left critically injured on…
Mumbai, March 14 (IANS) Former Maharashtra deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal was questioned here on Monday by a team of Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials in connection with corruption cases lodged against him. The Nationalist Congress…
Bengaluru, March 14 (IANS) The indigenously-built Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) prototype has fired 70mm rockets in weaponised configuration, state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) said on Monday. “The initial rocket firing trials at Jaisalmer in Rajasthan…
New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi at the Parliament in New Delhi, on Feb 24, 2016. (Photo: Amlan Paliwal/IANS) New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The Lok Sabha Ethics Committee headed by BJP veteran L.K….