Seven persons, including six school students, were killed on Saturday when a bus skidded off the road and rolled into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district, an official said. The victims, in the age group of 10 years, were going to Adarsh Vidya Niketan ...
Helicopter and cable car services to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine were suspended on Saturday due to heavy snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district. Officials said the services from Katra base camp to the shrine were suspended following the snowfall on the Trikuta hills....
In an obvious attack on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that he preferred to complete the pending irrigation projects to empower farmers instead of waiving their loans. Modi told a public rally in Palamau, about 160 km from Ranchi, that when he ...
All flight operations to and from the Srinagar international airport were halted on Saturday due to heavy snowfall, officials said. An airport official said due to poor visibility and snow accumulation on the runway, no flight would be operated to and from the the Sheikh ul-Alam ...
After a day of heated debate on the controversial Rafale deal Parliament, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday again picked up the gauntlet and said that Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke for two hours and still did not answer the two questions posed by him on the Rafale deal....
Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered the country's Army to focus on improving its combat ability and to make sure it is always prepared for battle, the state-owned China Daily newspaper reported on Saturday. Xi delivered an address on Friday to the Central Military Commission -- under...
A gunfight erupted on Saturday between the security forces and holed-up militants in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, officials said. Police said security forces started a cordon and search operation in Aripal village in Tral area after receiving information about the presence of militants ...
Six persons, including five students, were killed on Saturday when a school bus skidded off the road and rolled into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district, an official said. The victims were going to DAV Public School when the accident happened near ...
The UN is "very concerned" over India sending back Rohingya refugees to Myanmar without the world body's refugee agency ascertaining if they are voluntarily returning, according to an official here. "Whenever any family is returned, we want to make sure that the nature of their...
The UN's fundamental position on equal rights for women applies across the board to all religions and in the case of Sabarimala, since the Supreme Court has ruled on women's right to enter it, the world body encourages respect for rule of law, according to an official here....
