Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar. (File Photo: IANS) Mumbai, Feb 15 (IANS) The defence ministry on Monday signed 40-50 MoUs with many global players, including manufacturers of jet aircraft and helicopters, as part of the…
Mumbai, Feb 15 (IANS) With the $140 billion oil and gas industry in India slated to grow at five percent per annum, a major part of the 3.14 million square km area of the country’s…
Pathankot: Soilders inside the Pathankot Air Force base that was attacked by militants; on Jan 5, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Islamabad, Feb 15 (IANS) Foreign secretary level talks between Pakistan and India are not conditional to…
Mumbai, Feb 15 (IANS) Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravishankar Prasad on Monday said the ‘Digital India’ initiative will transform the country into a digital society and a knowledge economy. With the demand for electronic…
Kolkata: Jadavpur University student`s union stage a demonstration against the Centre`s bid to `propagate the ideology` of the BJP and the RSS with regard to the happenings at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Kolkata on…
Mumbai, Feb 15 (IANS) A cabinet note will soon be moved to do away with the tender process for crude oil imports and switch over to spot purchases to ensure better delivery at lower prices,…
Patna, Feb 15 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said the central government framed JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar on sedition charges. “Sedition charges against JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar is wrong. He…
New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi addresses at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, on Feb 13, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Titabor (Assam), Feb 15 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday said…
Panaji, Feb 15 (IANS) Goa Forest and Environment Minister Rajendra Arlekar on Monday said there was no possibility of the peacock, India’s national bird, being relegated to the list of vermin. Arlekar was speaking to…
Panaji, Feb 15 (IANS) Over 200 Congress workers and civil society activists on Monday protested at the proposed site for the relocated Defence Expo 2016 in Goa, blocking a team of revenue department officials from…
New Delhi: Jats stage a demonstration press for reservation in New Delhi, on Aug 4, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Rohtak, Feb 15 (IANS) Jat protesters on Monday blocked railway tracks and a national highway in Haryana’s…
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) Four journalists, including one from IANS, and some JNU students were assaulted at a court here on Monday by a section of lawyers, witnesses said. IANS reporter Amiya Kumar Kushwaha…
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) Responding to BJP president Amit Shah’s criticism of Rahul Gandhi over the Jawaharlal Nehru University row, the Congress on Monday said it does not need lessons in patriotism from those…
Jammu, Feb 15 (IANS) BJP president Amit Shah on Monday authorised Ram Madhav to fly to Jammu and Kashmir to finalise government formation arrangements with PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti, top party sources said. “Amit Shah…
Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested last week on charges of sedition, did raise anti-national slogans in the campus, Delhi Police Commissioner B.S….
 Former CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) CPI-M leader Prakash Karat on Monday took pot-shots at Home Minister Rajnath Singh for saying that Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed backed…
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) Delhi Police have stepped up security around the CPI-M office here after the party received telephone calls threatening its general secretary Sitaram Yechury for supporting Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students…
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah on Monday launched a scathing attack on Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for his stand on the Jawaharlal Nehru University row. Shah said no…
Islamabad, Feb 15 (IANS) India’s response to the sale of F-16 fighter aircraft by the US “does not make sense”, said a Pakistani daily on Monday. An editorial “An end to cordiality” in The Nation…
Mumbai, Feb 14 (IANS) Indian Railways announced on Sunday it will invest Rs.9,800 crore in the bullet train project along the Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor. The train, that would run at speeds of 300-350 kmph, would be…