Srinagar, April 6 (IANS) A militant was killed on Friday in a gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Police said the Rashtriya Rifles, the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the state…
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha was on Friday adjourned sine die at the end of the Budget session, half of which was washed out due to disruptions, even as Chairman M. Venkaiah…
Jammu, April 6 (IANS) An Army officer was injured in Pakistani firing on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district. Defence Ministry sources said the Major was injured late Thursday evening….
Mumbai, April 6 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached a Rs 462 crore worth property of Pyramid Developers as part of its ongoing probe in an alleged multi-crore scam and named Congress MLA Baba…
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) The BJP members on Friday staged protest in Parliament against the washout of the second leg of the budget session due to disruptions, holding the Congress responsible. Soon after both…
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) A six-member committee of the Delhi Assembly led by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia will meet Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to seek an increase in the salary of Delhi…
Mumbai, April 6 (IANS) Launching its election campaign for the 2019 elections, BJP President Amit Shah on Friday urged party workers to take a pledge to ensure it retained power with full majority to help…
Gaza City, April 6 (IANS) The death toll in a week of Palestinian protests along the dividing fence between Israel and Gaza climbed to 22 on Friday as a man died from his injuries and…
Beijing, April 6 (IANS) China warned on Friday it will counter tariff measures by the US even though it might lead to a trade war between the two countries. If the US continued its protectionism…
Johannesburg, April 6 (IANS) The corruption case against former South African President Jacob Zuma was postponed to June 8, the Durban High Court announced on Friday. The lawyers for the South African state and those…
Mumbai, April 6 (IANS) The Key Indian equity indices provisionally closed on a flat note on Friday following a similar trend on benchmark Asian exchanges. At 3.30 p.m., the wider Nifty50 of the National Stock…
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) In an effort to reach out to the Dalits after facing attacks over “dilution” of the SC/ST Atrocities Act, the BJP on Friday said that it has embarked on a…
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) Blaming the Congress for Parliamentary disruptions, Union Minister Ananth Kumar on Friday said ruling BJP MPs will sit on day-long fasts in their respective constituencies on April 12 to protest…
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) All the five Lok Sabha MPs of the YSR Congress tendered their resignations to Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Friday — the last day of Budget session — to protest against…
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to file a response on a plea by fugitive jeweller Mehul Choksi’s firm Gitanjali Gems in a money laundering…
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea filed against the re-assessment notice issued by the Income Tax Department to a Delhi-based hospitality firm linked to Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s…
Mumbai, April 6 (IANS) Defending champions Mumbai Indians and and two-time winners Chennai Super Kings, the most successful teams of the Indian Premier League (IPL), will begin the 11th edition of the Twenty20 cricket tournament…
Mumbai, April 6 (IANS) The CBI on Friday questioned ICICI Bank CEO and MD Chanda Kochhar’s brother-in-law Rajiv Kochhar for a second consecutive day in connection with a case of Rs 3,250 crore loan to…
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Oli arrived here on Friday on a three-day visit — his first foreign trip after he returned to power in February for a second time. Oli…
Malappuram (Kerala), April 6 (IANS) Protesters on Friday clashed with police here over land acquisition for a national highway development project, leaving several women and children injured. Fearing their land and houses would be taken…