Panaji, Feb 6 (IANS) A parliamentary standing committee on science and technology, environment and forests on Saturday slammed the Goa government for passing an amendment de-recognising the coconut palm as a tree. The committee, headed…
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. (File Photo: IANS) Colombo, Feb 6 (IANS) India and Sri Lanka reviewed the entire gamut of bilateral issues, including defence and economic cooperation and the contentious fishermen’s issue, besides signing…
New Delhi: Striking MCD workers stage a demonstration outside MCD office at Civil Lines in New Delhi, on Jan 29, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) The striking employees of Delhi’s civic bodies…
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy. (File Photo: IANS) Kochi, Feb 6 (IANS) The Oommen Chandy government in Kerala will retain power in the assembly elections scheduled later this year, former defence minister A.K. Antony said…
Washington, Feb 6 (IANS) India’s future as a technology powerhouse and its plans to connect India’s 600,000 villages to the Internet through the Digital India programme were the focus of a roundtable of top American…
Washington, Feb 6 (IANS) The US has welcomed India’s ratification of an international convention on nuclear energy accident liability, removing the last hurdle for the landmark India-US nuclear deal and paving the way for US…
India has rarely been as much disgraced as by the assault on a group of Africans in Bengaluru, the country’s vaunted Silicon Valley. Yet, this city, which is supposed to represent a cosmopolitan ambience, witnessed…
Washington, Feb 6 (IANS) Describing the chemistry between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama as a “good thing” for the two countries, White House says Obama will keep working to strengthen their ties…
Bengaluru, Feb 5 (IANS) The Karnataka government on Friday assured Africans, especially students, living in the city of their safety following a brutal assault on a Tanzanian woman by a mob in the suburbs last…
Lepetkata (Assam), Feb 5 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the Rs.10,000 crore gas cracker project at Lepetkata in Upper Assam’s Dibrugarh district and slammed the earlier United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a three-day visit to Assam, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha from February 5 to 7. Modi will…
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (File Photo: IANS) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) The BJP on Thursday questioned Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind…
President Pranab Mukherjee. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee will witness the country’s second International Fleet Review (IFR) on Saturday at Visakhapatnam. A Rashtrapati Bhavan release said the president, who…
Lucknow, Feb 4 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to fast-track its ambitious Rs. 10,000 crore project of setting up a theme park in Agra, an official said on Thursday. While reviewing the progress…
Visakhapatnam, Feb 4 (IANS) Ahead of the International Fleet Review, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday laid a wreath at the Naval War Memorial here to pay homage to fallen personnel. The…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday said that urban infrastructure sector offers Rs.73 lakh crore investment opportunity for private sector and public-private partnership (PPP) investments over the next…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) A high-level team from New Delhi, including the Tanzanian high commissioner to India, will leave for Bengaluru on Friday in connection with the assault on a Tanzanian woman in the…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) A Delhi court on Thursday acquitted Uttar Pradesh legislator Mukhtar Ansari and three others in a case related to their being members of an organised criminal gang. Additional Sessions Judge…
New Delhi/Islamabad, Feb 4 (IANS) The Indian Army on Thursday thanked the Pakistan Army for an offer of help in rescue and recovery of their personnel buried in an avalanche on Siachen. “We thanked Pakistan…
Agartala, Feb 4 (IANS) Peeved over the exclusion of state capital Agartala from the Smart Cities list, Tripura’s Left Front government has lodged a protest with the Centre on the “shocking” omission. “The Tripura government…