Improving cross-border connectivity and trade, people-to-people exchanges and educational collaboration were among the subjects discussed at the two-day civil society-led Track-II dialogue between India and Pakistan in Islamabad, the first such initiative after the Pulwama terror attack that soured relations between the two nei...
Three Congress rebels -- Chandrakant Kavlekar, Jennifer Monserrate and Filipe Nery Rodrigues -- along with former Deputy Speaker Michael Lobo were sworn in as ministers during a formal ceremony at Raj Bhavan here on Saturday. ...
Leaders of the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT), an ally of the ruling BJP, will meet the Prime Minister, Home Minister and other central ministers in Delhi next week to press their statehood demand. "We would leave Agartala for New Delhi on Sunday to meet Prime Minister ...
Tensions were building in the rural interiors of eastern Uttar Pradesh between fringe Hindu outfits and Christians over the issue of conversion. While the outfits are accusing Christians of forcibly converting Hindus, attacks on churches and priests were also increasing....
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) President Mayawati on Saturday welcomed the Uttar Pradesh Law Commission's draft Bill that seeks stringent punishment for those involved in mob lynching. "Mob lynching has emerged as a dreadful disease across the country and the loss...
The beleaguered ruling Congress in Karnataka is wooing some of its rebel MLAs to withdraw their resignations and help its tottering coalition government with the JD-S survive the political crisis gripping the state, a party official said on Saturday. "Our senior leaders, including Deputy Chief Minister G. Parameshwara, D.K. ...
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has requested the Union Civil Aviation Ministry to introduce direct flight from Bhubaneswar to Dubai to meet growing demand of people of the state for international travel. In a letter to Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, the Chief ...
Michael Lobo, the lone BJP lawmaker tipped to be sworn-in as a Minister in the Pramod Sawant-led Cabinet, resigned as Deputy Speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly on Saturday. "BJP MLA Michael Lobo has resigned as Deputy Speaker. I have accepted his ...
The Goa Cabinet is yet to have the vacancies for which four new ministers are scheduled to be sworn-in in a few hours. Chief Minister Pramod Sawant had on Friday asked four Cabinet ministers, including Deputy Chief Minister Vijai Sardesai, to resign, in order to replace them with new faces....
A major fire engulfed a rubber factory in Delhi on Saturday, leaving three people with severe burn injuries. The incident took place in Jhilmil Industrial Area near Dilshad Garden. "Twenty six fire tenders have been sent to the spot and a rescue operation is ...
