Author-diplomat Vikas Swarup, India's current High Commissioner to Canada, has been appointed as Secretary in the Consular, Passport, Visa and Overseas Indian Affairs division, with effect from August 1. ...
Governments much publicised Swachh Bharat Mission aiming to enhance the level of sanitation in India and make the country open defecation free (ODF) seems to be on its way out making way as other important schemes on solid waste management and drinking water is expected to get higher funding. ...
In Defiance of Indian Govt.’s ban on Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, legal advisor burnt the Tricolor to continue the commitment for Separatists agenda....
A day after switching to the BJP, a group of 10 rebel Congress MLAs from Goa on Thursday joined the saffron party at the party's headquarters in the national capital in presence of its Working President J.P. Nadda....
India on Thursday reiterated its strong criticism of a UN human rights report on Jammu and Kashmir, saying that it accorded "legitimacy to terrorisma by ignoring the issue of cross-border terrorism emanating from Pakistan and also by trying to create an artificial parity" between New Delhi and Islamabad....
A Special CBI Court here on Thursday sentenced former BJP MP Dinu Bogha Solanki from Gujarat's Saurashtra and six others to life imprisonment for the murder of RTI activist Amit Jethwa in July 2010. ...
An FIR has been lodged against controversial BJP MLA Pranav Singh Champion seen brandishing guns and abusing people of Uttarakhand in a video which went viral on social media. ...
The number of farmer suicides has declined in the last five years, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday, blaming successive Congress governments for the present plight of farmers in the country. ...
A Dubai-based Indian expat's savings worth 1 million dirhams ($272,242) had been blocked following his wife death as the couple had joint accounts with various banks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the media reported on Thursday. Following Narendra Gajria's wife Heena's death, Dubai Courts, as part of the ...
Networks representing over 7,000 higher education institutions from across the world on Thursday declared a climate emergency and agreed to undertake steps to address the crisis. In a joint letter, they talked about a three-point plan that includes going carbon neutral by 2030 or 2050 at the latest, mobilising more resources for...
