Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 19 (IANS) The sale of Indian-Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) has dipped by one-fourth over the past 21 months compared with earlier sales figures, after a new liquor policy came into force in Kerala,…
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) India on Friday called for a “whole of the world” approach to counter the global scourge of terrorism. “India has displayed early initiative in building a global resolve and new…
Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das. (File Photo: IANS) Ranchi, Feb 19 (IANS) Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Friday tabled in the assembly a Rs.63502.69 crore budget for financial year 2016-2017, which imposes no new…
JP Nadda New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Union Health and Family Welfare Minister J.P. Nadda on Friday termed the statement made by Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh regarding stoppage of the central government’s grants…
Patna, Feb 19 (IANS) Amid a political furore over JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar’s arrest, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday asked the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to explain their definition of ‘desh-drohi’…
Delhi Police Commissioner Bhim Sain Bassi addresses during an annual press conference in New Delhi on Jan.3, 2014. (Photo: IANS) By Ashish Mishra New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) The arrest of JNU student leader Kanhaiya…
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) The Congress on Friday accused the BJP and the RSS of raising nationalism “as a bogey to repress students and gag campuses” and said it was totally unacceptable. Congress leader…
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Social media was in uproar on Friday amid claims that a video that first went viral showing JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and others shouting slogans seeking Kashmir’s “azadi” may…
New Delhi: Jats stage a demonstration to demand reservation in New Delhi, on May 11, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Gurgaon, Feb 19 (IANS) The Haryana government on Friday agreed to provide Special Backward Class (SBC) status…
Kolkata, Feb 19 (IANS) The West Bengal government is conducting acting workshops for sex workers to help them get jobs in the entertainment industry, a minister said on Friday. Sixty sex workers and their children…
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Six Left parties on Friday sought the release of JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and punishment to those who they said fabricated “evidence” leading to his arrest for sedition. Kanhaiya…
Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Delhi Police chief B.S. Bassi on Friday said that “it doesn’t matter” to him if he was not being considered for the…
Kolkata, Feb 19 (IANS) Amid the pro-Afzal guru slogan controversy, Jadavpur University Vice Chancellor Suranjan Das called on West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi on Monday and later asserted the varsity will maintain its tradition of…
Rohtak: Security beefup in Rohtak in the wake off Jats demonstration on Feb 19, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Chandigarh, Feb 19 (IANS) Authorities in Haryana called in the army in a few districts, including Rohtak, on…
By L. Subramanyan Against the backdrop of what is happening in India in reference to the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) episode, there is this massive debate in terms of who is a nationalist and who…
Srinagar, Feb 19 (IANS) Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Friday expressed cynicism on the human resource development ministry’s directive to hoist the national flag in all central universities in the country….
Patna, Feb 19 (IANS) Nearly half a dozen trains were forcibly stopped in Bihar on Friday by hundreds of students, mostly activists of student bodies of left parties and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), demanding…
Jats stage a demonstration to demand reservation (Photo: IANS) Rohtak (Haryana), Feb 19 (IANS) At least one person was killed and 10 injured in police firing on Jat protestors in Haryana’s Rohtak town on Friday…
New Delhi: Congress GS Digvijay Singh arrives at the Parliament in New Delhi, on Dec 21, 2015. (Photo: Amlan Paliwal/IANS) Panaji, Feb 19 (IANS) A legislative change in Goa that takes away the tree status…
Jammu: Lawyers stage a demonstration against people raising anti-national slogans; in Jammu, on Feb 18, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Hundreds of lawyers marched from the Patiala House court complex to India…