China has successfully tested the sophisticated S-400 air defence system bought from Russia, a missile for which India struck a deal with Kremlin risking the US sanctions. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) tested the system last month, successfully ...
Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh on early Thursday allocated portfolios to the Council of Ministers, three days after 23 ministers took oath, with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot keeping key departments including Home, Finance and Personnel. The allocation of portfolios took place at 2 a.m., a statement said. ...
Coal India Limited (CIL) on Thursday said it is preparing to launch a rescue operation at the coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills to rescue the 15 trapped miners. The miners have been trapped in the mine since December 13 after it got flooded....
Russia's new hypersonic missile system, which Moscow claims is "invulnerable" to the US defences, will enter service in 2019, President Vladimir Putin said after conducting a test of the missile. The Avangard hypersonic system was tested from the Dombarovsky military airbase...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive at Pathanamthitta in Kerala on January 6 to kick-off the campaign for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, a senior BJP leader said on Thursday. Speaking to the media here, Kerala BJP President P.S. Sreedharan Pillai said ...
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday lauded the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for cracking the "dangerous terrorist module" and defended the government's decision on monitoring of computers by 10 security and intelligence agencies, asking: "Would this crackdown of the ...
All flights around Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano were re-routed and the alert level was on Thursday raised to the second-highest possible, days after the volcano triggered a tsunami leaving over 400 dead. The alert was raised from Level 2 to 3 on a scale of 4 and the exclusion zone...
The US House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said on its twitter account that "Trump and the First Lady travelled to Iraq late on Christmas night to visit our troops and senior military leadership to thank them for their service, their success, and their sacrifice and to wish them a Merry Christmas....
More than a million people stood with a lit lamp from the northern most district of Kasargode to the southern tip in the state capital to protest against the Pinarayi Vijayan government's attempt to dilute the traditions of the Sabarimala temple....
The government on Wednesday tightened e-commerce norms and barred online retail firms like Amazon and Flipkart from selling products of companies in which they have stakes, Ministry of Commerce and Industry said in a statement....
