Washington, Oct 11 (IANS) Defence officials from the US and Russia held a video conference on Saturday to discuss safe flight operations over Syria, the Pentagon confirmed. “The discussions were professional and focused narrowly on…
Haveri (Karnataka), Oct 10 (IANS) Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday secured a special relief package from his party-ruled Karnataka government for distressed farmers, reeling under drought, crop failure and a spate of suicides. “The…
Narendra Modi is probably learning the veracity of Stalin’s insightful aphorism that while one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic. In a country which has seen innumerable communal riots over the decades,…
Washington, Oct 10 (IANS) With enormous progress in India-US relationship since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power, the US says it looks forward to its further deepening and becoming more productive. “There’s been enormous…
Hyderabad, Oct 10 (IANS) The day-long shutdown called by the opposition parties in Telangana over farmers’ issues on Saturday evoked partial response in the state. The opposition parties are demanding the government to implement…
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) About one-third of the candidates for the second phase of the Bihar assembly polls have declared their criminal cases, with the BJP, JD-U and RJD fielding the maximum number of…
Washington, Oct 9 (IANS) Overtaking China, India is expected to grow at 7.3 percent in 2015, rising to 7.5 percent in 2016, the International Monetary Fund forecast Friday lowering its April projections by 0.2 percentage…
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) The Congress alleged on Friday that Rs.6,000 crore of “black money” had been sent out of the country from a public sector bank months after the NDA government came to…
CRETE, GREECE – OCTOBER 15: In this handout image provided by the German Bundeswehr armed forces a patriot missile is fired during the Operation Red Arrow exercise on October 15, 2008 in Crete, Greece. Germany’s…
Hyderabad, Oct 9 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Andhra Pradesh on October 22 to lay the foundation stone for the state’s new capital Amaravati. His day-long visit to the state has been finalized….
Hyderabad, Oct 9 (IANS) Opposition parties have called for a shutdown in Telangana on Saturday to force the government to take immediate steps to check farmers’ suicides. The main opposition parties – the Congress, TDP,…
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday sacked Food Minister Asim Ahmed Khan on charges of demanding a bribe from a builder. Announcing the sacking at a press conference where…
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Pakistani ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali has agreed to regale his Indian fans at a concert here in December, says Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. “Ghulam Ali Sahib. Hum apke bahut…
Gandhi Jayanti was celebrated across the country with fervour and reverence on October 2. The international community along with the United Nations too joined hands in celebrating this day as the “International Day of Non-Violence”….
Lucknow, Oct 8 (IANS) Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Thursday claimed that he had the names of three people who were behind the lynching of a Muslim in Dadri last month over…
Vijayawada, Oct 8 (IANS) The indefinite fast by YSRC president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy for separate category status to Andhra Pradesh entered its second day on Thursday. A team of doctors examined the leader at the…
New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) Drones will be used for the first time for surveillance in the upcoming Bihar assembly polls, according to a top election official. “Helicopters have been used in the past for…
Hyderabad, Oct 7 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday promised in the assembly that justice will be done in the case relating to gunning down of five Muslim prisoners by police. He…
