Veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader and former West Bengal Commerce and Industries Minister Nirupam Sen died early on Monday, party said. Sen was 72. The former politburo member succumbed to multi-organ failure around 5 a.m. at a private hospital in the satellite township of Salt Lake....
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday expressed grief over the loss of life and damage caused by a tsunami that hit the coast Sunda Strait in Indonesia killing 281 people. "My deepest condolences to the families of victims who lost their lives in the...
One Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) trooper was killed and 34 injured in a road accident on the Jammu-Srinagar highway on Monday, police said. A private bus carrying the ITBP personnel from the valley to Jammu went out of the driver's control at Khuni Nallah in Ramban district and plunged into a deep ...
Bill Anders, one of the first men to orbit the Moon has that it is "stupid" to plan human missions to Mars. Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Anders, lunar module pilot of Apollo 8, the first human spaceflight to leave Earth's orbit, said sending crews to Mars was "almost ...
President Donald Trump has announced that Deputy Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan has been appointed acting Pentagon chief....
As Uttar Pradesh on Sunday celebrated 116th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Charan Singh -- popularly known as the 'champion of farmers' cause,' -- hundreds of displaced farmers continued their sit-in for the 82nd day at Chalesar, close to the Yamuna Expressway intersection, about 10 km from Agra....
US President Donald Trump said Saturday that he was negotiating with the Democrats to end a partial government shutdown, but "it could be a long stay" due to continued discrepancy on his long-time demand for a border wall, reported Xinhua....
The BJP came up trumps and touched the 100-seat mark in the 182-member Gujarat Assembly by capturing the Jasdan seat in the Saurashtra region from the Congress in a by-election, the result of which was declared on Sunday....
The death toll from the tsunami triggered by volcano eruption in Indonesia rose to 222, and over 800 people were injured, Xinhua reported quoting officials on Sunday. ...
The Modi-led NDA government will be relying on women power to strengthen its booth-level management to ensure a victory in the 2019 general election....
