New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) While the world kept asking questions and Indians remained puzzled, the Noida-based startup, promising a Rs.251 (less than $4) “Make in India” smartphone, on Friday claimed to have received nearly…
President Pranab Mukherjee. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) President’s Rule has been lifted from Arunachal Pradesh, a Rashtrapati Bhavan official said on Friday. The step comes after the Supreme Court on Thursday…
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Friday expressed concern over a number of reform bills remaining pending due to disruption of the parliamentary proceedings. “Several reform bills related to people’s…
Kuala Lumpur, Feb 19 (IANS) Malaysia will suspend the hiring of foreign workers, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi announced on Friday, a day after the government announced an agreement to recruit thousands of Bangladeshis….
Hyderabad, Feb 19 (IANS) Leading information technology firm Cyient on Friday launched the work on technology development center in Warangal town of Telangana. Information Technology Minister K.T. Rama Rao laid foundation stone for the facility…
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Social media was in uproar on Friday amid claims that a video that first went viral showing JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and others shouting slogans seeking Kashmir’s “azadi” may…
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) India will for the first time host the International Congress on Infectious Diseases (ICID), which aims to discuss a slew of infections-related healthcare challenges relevant to the country and growing…
New Delhi: Jats stage a demonstration to demand reservation in New Delhi, on May 11, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Gurgaon, Feb 19 (IANS) The Haryana government on Friday agreed to provide Special Backward Class (SBC) status…
Kolkata, Feb 19 (IANS) The West Bengal government is conducting acting workshops for sex workers to help them get jobs in the entertainment industry, a minister said on Friday. Sixty sex workers and their children…
New Delhi: Former Delhi University (DU) professor SAR Geelani being taken away by police on charges of sedition for allegedly organising an event at the Press Club of India (PCI) to mark the death anniversary…
Warangal: People participate in Medaram Sammakka Saralamma Jatara in Warangal on Feb 18, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Warangal (Telangana), Feb 19 (IANS) Hundreds of thousands of devotees paid obeisance to tribal deities in Medaram of Telanagana’s…
US President Barack Obama. (File Photo: Xinhua/Yin Bogu/IANS) Washington, Feb 19 (IANS) Barack Obama will head to Cuba next month for the first visit by a US president to the Caribbean island nation in 88…
New York, Feb 19 (IANS) A day after Google’s Indian-American chief executive Sundar Pichai supported arch rival Apple to fight a court order to help the FBI break into the iPhone 5c used by California…
Jats stage a demonstration to demand reservation (Photo: IANS) Rohtak (Haryana), Feb 19 (IANS) At least one person was killed and 10 injured in police firing on Jat protestors in Haryana’s Rohtak town on Friday…
Jammu: Lawyers stage a demonstration against people raising anti-national slogans; in Jammu, on Feb 18, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Hundreds of lawyers marched from the Patiala House court complex to India…
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, who is accused of sedition, received multiple injuries in an assault by some lawyers at the Patiala House Court here early this week, shows his medical…
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) A day after promising to restore its online pre-order services for the Indian masses to book the world’s cheapest “Make in India” smartphone, the “Freedom 251” website continued its poor…
New Delhi: Chairman of the Supreme Court Committee on Reforms in Cricket Justice (retd.) R M Lodha with Justice Ashok Bhan (R) and Justice R V Raveendran with the copy of their report at a…
Washington, Feb 19 (IANS) President Obama has named 106 researchers, including six of Indian origin, as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest US government honour for young independent…
(Photo: IANS) Pope Francis leads a mass in the sanctuary of the Virgin of Charity in El Cobre, on the last day of his visit to Cuba, 22 September 2015. EFE/Orlando Barria Washington, Feb 19…