New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) As Delhi-NCR continues to breathe toxins for the second day in row, the major pollutants across all the monitoring stations in the region crossed the ‘severe’ level by Wednesday evening….
United Nations, Nov 8 (IANS) The Syrian government is responsible for the April chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun town in which over 80 people were killed, according to the findings of an investigation mandated by…
Kolkata, Nov 8 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday claimed that around 75,000 Indian industrialists have left the country and turned NRIs post demonetisation because of harassment and recession, leading to a…
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) In a dramatic twist to the murder of a Class 2 student of Ryan International School in Gurugram, the CBI on Wednesday said the horrific crime was committed by a…
Agartala, Nov 8 (IANS) Demonetisation of high-denomination notes hit the poor and common people hard as the BJP government at the Centre deceived Indians by unilaterally scrapping Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes last year,…
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is planning to fill three Rajya Sabha seats from Delhi which will fall vacant in January, with people outside the party and has contacted former…
Ghaziabad, Nov 8 (IANS) Three armed robbers barged into the house of a contractor here on Wednesday, rendered his wife unconscious and escaped with cash and jewellery worth Rs 35 lakh, police said. The incident…
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) The Election Commission on Wednesday asked the media not to carry predictions on results of assembly polls in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat in any form, including by astrologers, tarot readers…
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) The CBI announced on Wednesday – the first anniversary of demonetisation – that it had lodged 84 cases relating to exchange of old high-valued currency in various departments like banks,…
Lucknow, Nov 8 (IANS) Union Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday attacked the family of Congress President Sonia Gandhi by dubbing it a “family synonymous with graft” and said demonetisation was a tragedy for the family….
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) India Inc. on Wednesday expressed mixed responses on the first anniversary of demonetisation. The Associated Chambers of Commerce of India (Assocham) said its stand on demonetisation — “short term pain,…
Greater Noida, Nov 8 (IANS) Around two dozen cars crashed into each other in the season’s first vehicle pile-up on the Yamuna Expressway on Wednesday morning, injuring at least eight Delhi residents as blinding haze…
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju on Wednesday asked the sector regulator to probe the October 15 incident in which an IndiGo airline passenger was manhandled by the carrier’s staff…
Bhubaneswar, Nov 8 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday ordered a judicial probe and also a simultaneous Crime Branch investigation into the alleged rape of a tribal girl in Koraput district by four…
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and a Supreme Court-appointed environment body have recommended “free of cost public transport” in Delhi for the next few days as the region faces…
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday held a protest march outside Thyagaraj Stadium here with around 1,000 party workers raising slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government’s decision…
Mumbai, Nov 8 (IANS) Heavy selling pressure in metals, automobile and banking stocks, coupled with negative global cues and outflow of foreign funds, suppressed the key Indian equity indices on Wednesday. Market observers opined that…
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 8 (IANS) Kerala’s main rival political fronts, the CPI-M-led Left and Congress-led UDF, on Wednesday for a change appeared to have a common agenda when they both slammed the Modi government over demonetisation,…
Shimla, Nov 8 (IANS) Sixty-eight Assembly seats will on Thursday go to the polls in a single phase in Congress-ruled Himachal Pradesh, where the BJP is determined to take power. Officials said everything was in…
Hyderabad, Nov 8 (IANS) The Telangana government has sealed the office of the State Wakf Board, pending an inquiry into alleged irregularities. Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao is likely to announce in the Assembly on…