By Anil Giri Kathmandu, March 21 (IANS) Stung by the bitter lessons from Madhesi blockade of India trade points that caused acute fuel shortage, Nepal on Monday signed a transit and transportation treaty with China…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses at the foundation stone laying ceremony of the Dr. BR Ambedkar National Memorial, in New Delhi on March 21, 2016. (Photo: IANS/PIB) New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) Prime…
Thiruvananthapuram, March 21 (IANS) Faced with protests against selection of ‘celebrities’ as the candidates for the Kerala assembly polls, the CPI-M got a setback on Monday when film actress K.P.A.C. Lalitha said she was unwilling…
BEIJING, March 21, 2016 (Xinhua) — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R F) and Nepalese Prime Minister K. P. Oli (L F) walk to a meeting in Beijing, capital of China, March 21, 2016. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei/IANS)…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the foundation stone laying ceremony of the Dr. BR Ambedkar National Memorial, in New Delhi on March 21, 2016. Also seen Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment…
Nay Pyi Taw, March 21 (IANS) The Myanmar parliament on Monday approved President-elect U Htin Kyaw’s plan of forming a new government with reduced ministries. The proposal submitted on March 17 was approved by a…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the foundation stone laying ceremony of the Dr. BR Ambedkar National Memorial, in New Delhi on March 21, 2016. Also seen Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment…
Islamabad, March 21 (IANS) Pakistan has fallen well behind the rest of the world in the T2O format, a Pakistani daily said and rued the men’s cricket team’s loss to India in Kolkata. It, however,…
HAVANA, March 21, 2016 (Xinhua) — United States President Barack Obama (R) and his wife Michelle Obama (L) arrive at Jose Marti Airport in Havana March 20, 2016. Barack Obama arrived in Havana on Sunday…
Lucknow, March 21 (IANS) The Indian Police Service (IPS) Association of Uttar Pradesh has rejected Justic Vishnu Sahay’s report on the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots that have blamed former SSP Subhash Dubey for the violence that…
New York, March 21 (IANS) The animal right organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has reportedly filed an appeal against a lower court’s decision in January this year that declined to give…
Jammu, March 21 (IANS) The strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway was restored on Monday for one-way traffic after remaining closed for four days. “One-way traffic will be allowed on Jammu-Srinagar national highway,” a senior traffic department…
Canberra, March 21 (IANS) Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Monday announded the country will hold an early election in July if the Senate fails to pass laws aimed at curbing union corruption. Turnbull will…
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Monday morning here with the minimum temperature settling at 19.5 degrees Celsius, three notches above the season’s average, the weather office said. The sky would…
Shanghai, March 21 (IANS) Architectural conservationists will create a 3-D digital replica of a historic area of Shanghai using photo-based modeling technology, the media reported on Monday. Liantang old town in Qingpu district, dates back…
Dehradun, March 21 (IANS) Uttarakhand’s political upheavel showed no sign of abating as both sides — Chief Minister Harish Rawat and rebel Congress leader Harak Singh Rawat — have hardened their stands. On Sunday, as…
Beijing, March 21 (IANS) Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli announced the country’s economy is on the right track in the first quarter of this year as major economic indicators have shown signs of improvement, the…
Islamabad, March 21 (IANS) Pakistan Navy (PN) warship, PNS ASLAT, has reached the French island of La Reunion to participate in a drill, the media reported on Monday. According to a PN statement on Sunday,…
Nay Pyi Taw, March 21 (IANS) Myanmar President-elect U Htin Kyaw will submit a list of nominees for cabinet posts to the Union Parliament on Thursday for approval, the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD)…
Cape Town, March 21 (IANS) South African opposition, The Democratic Alliance (DA), threatened on Sunday to lay criminal charges against an Indian family “for what now amounts to further prima facie evidence of an attempt…