New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) NITI Aayog member Bibek Debroy, who heads the five-member Economic Advisory Council (EAC), on Tuesday said enhancement of productivity was important for a country to increase its national income. “National…
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 10 (IANS) Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) Secretary Jayesh George is confident there will be a 45,000-capacity crowd at the new Greenfield Stadium on November 7 when India clash with New Zealand in a…
Mumbai, Oct 10 (IANS) After nearly four days, a fire in a high speed diesel (HSD) storage tank at an offshore oil terminal has been finally put out and cooling operations started, a top official…
San Francisco, Oct 10 (IANS) Massive wildfires raged across Northern California, killing at least 10 people, forcing up to 20,000 to evacuate and destroying over 1,500 buildings in one of the most destructive fire emergencies…
Srinagar, Oct 10 (IANS) The Indian Army foiled an infiltration bid on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, a defence official said on Tuesday. Defence Ministry spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia…
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday called terrorism a “curse for the civilised society”, and said the NIA will soon choke the foreign fund trail to the terrorists operating in…
Islamabad, Oct 10 (IANS) A National Accountability Bureau (NAB) team is likely to leave for London to collect evidence of properties belonging to ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s family, the media reported on Tuesday….
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday said the government has made a “sacred commitment” of covering 90 per cent of Indian rural households with piped water supply by 2022, when…
Islamabad, Oct 10 (IANS) Pakistan, in an attempt to resume a quadrilateral peace process that can help set an end to the Afghan war, has asked all the concerned group members to meet in Oman…
Washington, Oct 10 (IANS) Donald Trump’s current wife Melania slammed the US President’s first wife, Ivana who called herself “first lady” as “attention-seeking and self-serving noise”, the media reported. On Monday, Ivana Trump in an…
San Francisco, Oct 10 (IANS) Apple has scrapped a deal with Weinstein Company for a Elvis Presley biopic series after producer Harvey Weinstein was fired from the company he co-founded. Weinstein was asked to leave…
London, Oct 10 (IANS) Millions of users across the world, especially in Europe and the US were left snapped when the popular photo-sharing app Snapchat crashed globally for several hours. According to independent website Down…
Mumbai, Oct 10 (IANS) Positive global cues pushed the key Indian equity indices higher during the early morning trade session on Tuesday. According to market observers, positive Asian indices and healthy buying in automobile and…
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday said it has arrested one accused for organising a terror camp in Kerala’s Kannur district in 2013. The person arrested was identified as…
Washington, Oct 10 (IANS) A Texas Tech University student fatally shot a campus police officer in the head, according to varsity authorities. The incident took place on Monday night when campus police were making a…
Las Vegas, Oct 10 (IANS) Stephen Paddock shot a security guard before he opened fire on an open-air concert in Las Vegas on October 1 killing 59 people, a senior police official announced. Paddock shot…
United Nations, Oct 10 (IANS) UN aid agencies are helping the Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar into Bangladesh, said UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric. The number of Rohingya refugees who have fled to Bangladesh since late August…
Washington, Oct 10 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said the US policy toward North Korea has been a failure for a quarter of a century, allowing Pyongyang to develop atomic weapons. “Our country has been…
Brussels, Oct 10 (IANS) Finance Ministers of the 19-country Eurozone are scheduled to elect a new chief to chair the group at their December meeting, said outgoing Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem. “I would leave my…
Los Angeles, Oct 10 (IANS) Deadly wildfire roared across the US state of California, killing at least 10 persons, forcing evacuations and destroying homes and businesses in their paths. The biggest fires burned in the…