Mumbai, April 13 (IANS) Key Indian stock market indices were trading significantly higher on Wednesday morning, cheered by the news a day earlier from official agencies that factory output was back on the growth path,…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi being presented the memento by the Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge) Prakash Javadekar during the 3rd Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation, in…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the central government to give information about the drought situation in 12 states with details relating to affected states, districts, taluks and villages as…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai on Tuesday launched a app called “Poocho Carpool” to give people more options for car pooling during the second phase of the odd-even traffic scheme…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the inauguration of the 3rd Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation, in New Delhi on April 12, 2016. Also seen the Minister of State for Environment, Forest and…
Mumbai, April 12 (IANS) The Bombay High Court on Tuesday posed some uncomfortable questions to the BCCI on whether Indan Premier League matches should be played in Maharashtra in view of the grim water situation…
Mumbai/Latur, April 12 (IANS) Hours after a ‘water train’ reached the parched Latur district in Maharashtra, another train was being filled for more supply, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Tuesday. “The work to fill…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Tuesday could well be a day to raise the toast for the Indian economy. Official data forecast rains during the upcoming monsoon season to be above normal, retail inflation has…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The forecast that India will get six percent more-than-normal monsoon rain this year has brought widespread relief to the overall agriculture sector, and especially for the agriculture and farmers’ welfare…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) After two drought years, India will get more-than-normal monsoon rains in 2016 with a probability of 94 percent, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in its first forecast for the…
Hyderabad, April 12 (IANS) The met office has issued heat wave warning for Telangana over next two days. According to the metrological centre here, most places in Telangana are very likely to record maximum temperature…
Bhubaneswar, April 12 (IANS) The sizzling heat wave sweeping Odisha for the last couple of days continued to cripple normal life on Tuesday, as the temperature hovered over 40 degrees Celsius in most places in…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday assured his “full support” to Delhi’s second phase of the odd-even traffic scheme to be implemented from April 15 to 30. He gave…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) India has a “successful track record of protecting its tigers”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday at an international tiger conference here, as India announced an increase in its…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday met Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari and urged him to back the second phase of the odd-even traffic scheme aimed at battling pollution….
Mumbai, April 12 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday visited the garbage dumping ground at Deonar here and took the opportunity to blast Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Campaign. “The PM speaks…
Beijing, April 12 (IANS) A team of zoologists has seen 23 rare species, including Williamson’s mouse deer, during field research in the forests in China’s Yunnan province. The 23 rare species seen in the forests…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) India will get a more than normal monsoon this year, the India Meteorological Department announced on Tuesday. IMD Director General Laxman Singh Rathore said the monsoon would be 6 percent…
Singapore, April 12 (IANS) Singapore will ban smoking in reservoirs and parks from June 1, a senior minister said on Tuesday. The ban will affect 17 reservoirs and parks in public housing estates in Jurong…
Washington, April 12 (IANS) Severe storms raged through the southern US states of Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi, bringing hail and severe winds that damaged vehicles, homes and triggered power outage. In Texas, hail as large…