Stockholm, Oct 5 (IANS) Acclaimed Japanese-born British writer Kazuo Ishiguro was on Thursday named the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2017. Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in…
Kathmandu, Oct 5 (IANS) Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has consulted lawyers on the status of his government after the country’s major Left political parties, including CPN (Maoist Centre) which is part of the…
Bhopal, Oct 5 (IANS) The Election Commission will be ready to hold simultaneous polls to Lok Sabha and all state assemblies by the end of next year when it will have all the logistics ready,…
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday said its Judges were not pro-government and pointed to ways it had been hauling up the government on various matters. A bench of Chief Justice…
Varanasi, Oct 5 (IANS) Acting chairperson of NCW Rekha Sharma on Thursday said a probe will be initiated at all levels in last month’s BHU violence and the former Vice Chancellor be given an opportunity…
Guwahati, Oct 5 (IANS) At least five newborns died in a medical college in Assam’s Barpeta district in last 24 hours while two more are in a critical condition, a hospital official said. The deaths…
Kannur (Kerala), Oct 5 (IANS) After threatening to take his fight into Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s hometown, BJP President Amit Shah on Thursday failed to turn up here to lead a state-wide yatra he…
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) In mid-September, a team of Haryana Police investigating the sensation murder of a minor boy studying in Ryan International School in Gurugram, had rushed to Mumbai as part of the…
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) Air force chief Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa on Thursday said Chinese troops are still stationed in the Chumbi valley in Doklam area and hoped they go back soon. Asked…
Mumbai, Oct 5 (IANS) Key Indian equity indices, which opened in the green on Thursday, closed on a lower note on the back of weak European markets and heavy selling pressure in banking, and oil…
Hyderabad, Oct 5 (IANS) President Donald Trump’s daughter and White House advisor Ivanka Trump will be in Hyderabad for two days to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) next month, a top US official said…
By Rachel V Thomas Mumbai, Oct 5 (IANS) With the digital India initiative firmly in place, enterprise solutions provider SAP is ready to not only enable the integration of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) into…
Mumbai, Oct 5 (IANS) Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi again on Thursday, asking “how long will he (PM) continue to tell lies” to the country. Addressing a rally…
Jammu, Oct 5 (IANS) The Army on Thursday averted a major terror strike in Jammu and Kashmir’s Akhnoor area by detecting an improvised explosive device (IED) and two landmines, a Defence Ministry statement said. “Alertness…
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) The CPI-M has accused BJP President Amit Shah of unleashing “lumpen politics” against it in Kerala but said the Marxists won’t be cowed down. “Amit Shah has embarked on a…
Ranchi, Oct 5 (IANS) A farmer committed suicide in Jharkhand after a bank official refused to let him withdraw his money due to a pending loan, police said on Thursday. The incident took place in…
Las Vegas, Oct 5 (IANS) The girlfriend of Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas gunman who killed 59 people, said she saw no signs that he was planning “something horrible” and was “devastated” by the gruesome…
Tokyo, Oct 5 (IANS) Japanese labour inspectors on Thursday ruled that the death of a 31-year-old employee of the countrys public broadcaster NHK was caused due to overwork. Miwa Sado, who worked at the broadcaster’s…
New Delhi/Gurugram, Oct 5 (IANS) The CBSE has told the Supreme Court that Pradhuman Thakur’s death in a Gurugram school could have been averted, had school authorities discharged their duties and responsibilities with care and…
Kuala Lumpur, Oct 5 (IANS) Traces of the VX nerve agent were found on the clothing of the two women on trial for the murder of Kim Jong-nam, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s estranged half-brother,…