New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) The CBI on Tuesday called the staff of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s principal secretary Rajendra Kumar for questioning in connection with its probe into an alleged corruption case against…
Mumbai, March 8 (IANS) A benchmark index of Indian equities markets, the 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), on Tuesday was trading 43.88 points, or 0.18 percent up during the morning session. The wider 50-scrip Nifty of…
Lucknow, March 8 (IANS) The single-member Justice Vishnu Sahai Commission, which probed the 2013 Muzaffarnagar communal riots and whose report was tabled in Uttar Pradesh Assembly on Sunday has come under cloud after a social…
Kathmandu, March 8 (IANS) Three-time Prime Minister and Nepali Congress senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba has been elected as the new president of the country’s largest democratic party. He was elected in its 13th National…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: IANS/PIB) New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said his government’s efforts towards the development of women “are unwavering”. “Saluting the accomplishments of all women on…
Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg (Photo: IANS/PIB) New York, March 8 (IANS) Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday he will not enter the 2016 presidential campaign as an independent, citing…
Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister, Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir arrived here late on Monday on a one-day visit to India as…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), in New York (Xinhua/Wang Lei) New York, March 8 (IANS) The US stocks closed mixed on Monday amid surging oil, as investors tried…
New York, March 8 (IANS) In a startling revelation Russian tennis ace Maria Sharapova on Monday said she failed a drug test at the Australian Open. According to media reports, Sharapova received a letter from…
Dhaka, March 8 (IANS) At least two people were killed and dozens injured in a stampede during a Hindu fair in Bangladesh’s Chittagong district late on Monday, police said. The exact reason for the stempede…
Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (Photo: IANS) Kolkata, March 7 (IANS) Soon after the Left Front announced its partial list of candidates, the Congress’s state chief appeared miffed over the combine finalising its nominees in…
Dharamsala, March 7 (IANS) A team of security officials from Pakistan were apprehensive about the security of their country’s cricket players during the Pakistan-India match here on March 19, an Indian official said on Monday….
Thiruvananthapuram, March 7 (IANS) The Mother Superior, of the old age home in Aden, which was attacked last week, has been flown out to Abu Dhabi, said Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy. Chandy told IANS…
New Delhi: JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar with tribal activist Soni Sori at JNU campus in New Delhi, on March 7, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party leader and tribal activist…
Kolkata, March 7 (IANS) West Bengal’s main opposition Left Front on Monday released its first list of 116 candidates, that included former Asian Games gold medallist runner Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, and said talks were on “at…
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) The Delhi Police on Monday arrested a 30-year-old man in connection with posters that announced a reward of Rs.11 lakh to anyone who shot dead JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya…
New Delhi: Former Lok Sabha speaker P A Sangma died of a heart attack on March 4, 2016. He was 68 years old. (File Photo: IANS) Tura (Meghalaya), March 7 (IANS) Former Lok Sabha speaker…
Bhubaneswar, March 7 (IANS) A former Congress MLA and three others were on Monday sent to jail after their bail petitions were rejected by a local court in Odisha’s Ganjam district. The police presented former…
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley (Phote: Sunil Majumdar/IANS) Gurgaon, March 7 (IANS) Advocating the need for states to compete with each other in attracting investments, union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said that states…
Actor Amitabh Bachchan. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) Severe spinal pain and exhaustion in the mornings marked the period before he was diagnosed with tuberculosis way back in 2000, Bollywood superstar Amitabh…