Ten points emerge clearly from reactions coming from political parties on the eve of Maharashtra and Haryana election results:
Congress has conceded defeat not only in...read more
NEW DELHI: The Union government on Friday filed an application in the Supreme Court, saying it cannot disclose details of foreign accounts held by Indians which are governed by bilateral double...read more
The Jammu and Kashmir Bank (JKB) has announced special rehabilitation and revival package for the flood affected people, particularly traders and farmers.
A bank...read more
The Cabinet today approved deregulation in diesel prices leading to an immediate fall in its price by Rs 3.37 per litre in the National Capital from midnight...read more
Turning the tables on the previous UPA government, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the present NDA government had inherited the legacy of Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA), which...read more
Government is contemplating steps for forming separate police force for dealing with crime against people of North Eastern region, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said...read more
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Commissioner Somesh Kumar has announced that Osmania Park, which is in a neglected state, will be restored to its past glory without...read more
India and China today reached consensus on several confidence building measures to maintain peace and tranquillity in the border areas at the end of their two-day border mechanism...read more
Just a day after a Manipuri engineering student was attacked in Karnataka for not speaking Kannada, another case of shameful racist crime was reported from in the National Capital...read more
India successfully test-fired its subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay of 1000-km range from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur in Odisha this morning.
A top official of Defence Research...read more
Expressing concern over the reports of diluting the provisions of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), several noted economists today urged Prime...read more
On the day of opening of Indo-China bilateral talks over border issues in New Delhi, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh expressed dismay over intermittent territorial disturbances...read more
Due to non-ratification of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), jobs of about 38 million people in India is under threat and the Government may also lose revenue to...read more
U.S.-based economist Arvind Subramanian became chief economic adviser to the Indian government on Thursday, an appointment that puts Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan at the...read more
Accusing the J&K coalition Government of restricting its flood relief measures to making elusive announcements and dishing out vague policies, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...read more
Indian Cricketer and Rajya Sabha MP Sachin Tendulkar today said he looked forward to adopting a village under the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana.
Tendulkar, who called on Prime Minister...read more
Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) activist Medha Patkar and her supporters today staged a sit-in near Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's residence here protesting...read more
Teheran's troubled ties with the West continue to dog India's efforts to secure energy supplies. In the latest instance, GAIL India has expressed unwillingness to enter into a non-binding...read more
I am the son of a sportsman, I grew up in England, Bhopal, Pataudi, Delhi and Mumbai, and I am more Indian than any Hindu or Muslim I know because I am both. I wrote this piece not to comment on...read more
Very few people believed Medhaj News when it predicted single largest party/ majority status for the BJP in both Maharashtra and Haryana. However, all exit polls show BJP winning the largest...read more
Security forces burst teargas shells and resorted to lathicharge to disperse demonstrators, who had blocked main road in the civil lines, demanding immediate compensation for reconstruction and...read more
Traffic movement and other activities came to a halt in the heart of the summer capital, Srinagar, when hundreds of people, mostly women, blocked Budshah bridge, leading to civil secretariat, seat...read more
Close on the heels of Rs. 4 crore Charas seizure from Kanpur, police have arrested two Hawala agents from city's central railway station, seizing Rs 50 lakhs in...read more
Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat on Tuesday convicted five accused in the 2010 Dhaula Kuan gangrape case. The judge held them guilty of abducting a 30-year-old call centre executive on the...read more
Describing the United Nations’ decision to not take any cognisance of Pakistan’s anti-India letter on Jammu and Kashmir to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Bharatiya...read more
Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Dr K Radhakrishnan offered prayers to
Lord Venkateswara here this evening prior to launch of third IRNSS- 1c satellite...read more
An Indian Air Force (IAF) Sukhoi-30MKI fighter aircraft crashed near Lohegan airbase in Pune on Tuesday evening at around 5:30 PM. The plane crashed while on a routine training mission and both...read more
BJP activists on Tuesday staged protest in this winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir against Pakistan and burnt its flag for violating ceasefire and resorting to firing and shelling on...read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make an aerial survey around this noon of the areas devastated by the cyclone Hudhud which made landfall near Visakhapatnam on Sunday last claiming 21 lives...read more
Three officials of Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) have been suspended while one was attached for dereliction of duties.
Corporation Commissioner Kiran Wattal yesterday suspended...read more
1. Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani to
address a press conference of private sector heads at
Ashoka Hotel -- 1100 hrs.
2. Union Consumer...read more
Urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come true on his promise of following Vajpayee Doctrine on Kashmir, People's Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti today said that there was no...read more
Aam Aadmi Party today condemned the attack on former Delhi women and child development minister and Mangolpuri MLA, Rakhi Bidlan and party volunteers this afternoon.
Alleging the BJP...read more
Alleging the tribals were always neglected at the hands of the Congress which ruled the country for 60 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the BJP was alive...read more
The severe cyclone 'Hudhud' that crossed the coast near Visakhapatnam yesterday has devastated the urban infrastructure of Visakhapatnam, one the largest cities in residual Andhra...read more
Another effort to resolve the vexed Ayodhya issue failed to fructify despite a meeting between Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati and Muslim clerics here...read more
In yet another move to create conducive environment for Industrial growth and easing out labour policies, the Narendra Modi government at the Centre is set to roll out a scheme--Satyamev Jayete--...read more
Speaking as if part of an `Independent' entity, People's Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti today called upon India and Pakistan to try peace instead of hostility, which has...read more
After two nights of peace, Pakistani troops violated ceasefire along the Line of Control on Saturday in Shahpur sector of Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir and targeted four Indian posts. Indian...read more
Trade Unions in the country would organise a mass demonstration before the all Assemblies in the state as well as before Parliament on December 5, protesting against the anti-labour policies...read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) aimed at turning villages into model villages through people's participation, 'demand-driven and not...read more
With cyclonic storm Hudhud set to hit the North Andhra coast tomorrow the authorities are preparing to evacuate more than 200,000 people in four coastal districts to safer...read more
Facebook to launch Clean India Mobile App to support PM's Swachh Bharat Mission declared Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg today lent...read more
A Pechora Missile Park was inaugurated by Air Marshal A P Garud VM, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief,Southern Air Command and Chairman Local Board of Administration at Sainik School in...read more
OSLO, Oct 10 (Reuters) Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls' right to education, and Indian children's right activist...read more
India's warning to Pakistan of 'unaffordable' consequences if it continues adventurism on the borders seems to have gone down well with Pakistani security apparatus as most portions of...read more
Barring few, operating from outskirts of the city, majority newspapers remained off the stands even a month after devastating floods in the Kashmir valley, including summer capital,...read more
Hyderabad, Oct 9 (UNI) Tension prevailed in the Mehdipatnam Garrison area here today following the death of an 11-year-old boy who was allegedly torched by unknown army men inside the cantonment,...read more
Government will shortly launch an Urban Housing Mission, to be named after Sardar Patel, to ensure housing for all citizens of India by 2022, Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu...read more
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg will is in India to attend the two-day long Internet.org summit that aims to make internet access affordable for people who do not have it globally.
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Altogether 6,000 border migrants have been shifted to the relief camps established in Kathua district in view of cross border firing. ‘’In all 16 relief camps have been...read more
The latest news running on Facebook about the tiger incident in Delhi zoo gives a whole new angle to the horrific sequence.
A Facebook post read: ‘Forensic report says that the...read more
Three days after Jahnvi Ahuja returns home following her disappearance last week, another case of missing child has been reported.
One-and-a-half-year-old Abhinav has been missing...read more
The Indian Air Force celebrated 82nd Air Force Day celebration at Hindon Air Force Station.
Tendulkar was conferred with the honorary title of Honorary Group Captain four years ago and...read more
The government is making long- and short-term plans to clean up river Ganga and it will take three years to come out with final plans, Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti said...read more
Delhi Metro witnessed yet another suicide attempt on Tuesday when a 23-year-old man threw himself in between the coaches of a running train. Asif, a carpenter by profession jumped when the train...read more
India is unique—the city associated with the infamous 2002 anti-Muslim riots, resonated this Navratri with Dandiya-Garba festivities organized by a leading Muslim personality....read more
The Centre on Saturday assured all help to the Bihar government to deal with the stampede tragedy in Patna that has left 33 persons dead.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh...read more
India’s chief hockey coach Terry Walsh described Thursday’s Asian Games gold medal victory as “a big moment for the sport in the country”. India ended a 16-year gold medal drought,...read more
A teary-eyed O Panneerselvam, trusted loyalist of AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa, was sworn in as Tamil Nadu chief minister by Governor K Rosaiah at Raj Bhavan on Monday, two days after a special...read more
Grief united people of different religion in UP's most communally sensitive town. Moradabad came together for the funeral of two Muslim youths who died trying to rescue a Hindu girl, Suman...read more
October 19 , 2014 
