The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day without transacting any business as a mark of respect for Biju Janata Dal member Ladu Kishore Swain, who died at age 71...
Archive - February 2019
The Uttar Pradesh government has constituted a four-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the 1984 Sikh riots in Kanpur, in the aftermath of then...
Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee is not only West Bengal’s first woman Chief Minister and perhaps the most feisty woman politician in the...
There was thunder and lightning on a cloudy Wednesday morning here as light to moderate rains lashed parts of the National Capital Region and the Met predicted...
The judicial wars returned to Washington on Tuesday as the Senate Judiciary Committee met to consider Neomi Rao, President Donald Trump’s nominee for...
Praising Meghalaya Chief Minister, Conrad Sangma for his “bold stand” against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, United Liberation Front of...
India’s 40th communication satellite GSAT-31 was successfully put into orbit today by an Ariane 5 rocket belonging to ISRO and Arianespace, on...
The study found that European exports will grow by $70 billion, while Japan, Canada and Mexico will see exports increase by more than $20 billion each. The...
Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar faces fresh problems with the Centre on Tuesday asking the West Bengal government to initiate disciplinary proceedings...
Stressing that it is determined to do more to keep people safe across its services, Facebook said it has identified some key areas where it has to do more to...
Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday slammed opposition parties backing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s ongoing sit-in protest against the...
Foiling an alleged opposition BJP’s bid to topple it recently, the ruling JD-S-Congress government in Karnataka is bracing up for a 10-day stormy budget...
World Cancer Day, officially organized by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and celebrated each year on 4 February, is an opportunity to rally...
west Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday continued her sit-in protest here over the CBI’s attempt to question the Kolkata Police chief in...
Hundreds and thousands of devotees from various parts of the world braved the cold and fog on Monday morning and took a holy dip in the Sangam -the trinity of...
Congress President Rahul Gandhi and several other opposition leaders on Sunday extended their full support to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her...
In a virtual no-holds-barred clash between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Central and West Bengal governments, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee began a sit...
The BJP on Sunday launched a campaign to seek suggestions and voters’ expectations for a “new India” from 10 crore families across the...
At least six people were killed and 38 others injured when 11 coaches of the New Delhi-bound Seemanchal Express derailed before dawn on Sunday in a rural part...
Fifty mummies dating back to the Ptolemaic era (305-30 BC) have been found by Egyptian archaeologists, the Antiquities Ministry has said. The mummies, of which...
The US army on Saturday said its forces conducted an airstrike in Somalia on Friday, killing 13 Al-Shabaab terrorists. The US Africa Command (AFRICOM) said in...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday announced that Russia will suspend its participation in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in a...
The mortal remains of IAF test pilot Squadron Leader Siddhartha Negi were cremated with military honours here on Saturday, a day after he died in the Mirage...
The Hyderabad police on Saturday arrested a youth for posting obscene material on social media against YSR Congress Party President Y.S. Jaganmohan...
Pakistani wives of former Kashmiri militants who came here under the State government’s rehab policy on Saturday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
The Central government has decided to use a new technology to seal India’s international borders with Bangladesh passing through Assam and West Bengal by...
In a huge embarrassment for Maharashtra government, a Pune Special Court on Saturday slammed the city police Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) for what it termed as...
Rishi Kumar Shukla, former Madhya Pradesh Director General of Police, an officer without any anti-corruption work experience, was on Saturday appointed the...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday urged West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress to support the Citizenship Amendment Bill in Parliament to give...
The Congress party in Kerala has made it clear that none of the legislators want former chief Minister Oommen Chandy to be fielded for the upcoming Lok Sabha...
Continuing with its investment spree in the US real estate, Google has reportedly signed a lease for a 35-storey tower in Austin which is scheduled to be ready...