About 7,000 people were moved to evacuation centres as Storm Pabuk struck the Thai province of Nakhon Si Thammarat on Friday, officials said. Authorities were trying to evacuate 80,000 people in the province, Nakhon Si Thammarat's Secretary of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department, ...
Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday took a dig at Congress President Rahul Gandhi for visiting his parliamentary constituency Amethi more often and said this was because she had done a lot of work there and in the process rattled Gandhi. On a brief halt outside the Lucknow airport on way to Amethi, from where she ...
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday said it has arrested an arms supplier in connection with its ongoing probe into the new Islamic State (IS) module 'Harkat-ul-Harb-e-Islam'. A senior NIA official in New Delhi said the agency has arrested 21-year-old Naeem in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut on Thursday night....
Claiming "fresh revelations" in the Rafale fighter jet deal, the Congress on Friday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi increased the benchmark price of the deal from euro 5.2 billion to 8.2 billion, resulting in a loss to the exchequer. "Fresh revelations further expose brazen corruption practices in Rafale dea...
North Korea replaced its top envoy in Rome in November, Italian diplomatic authorities said on Friday, while remaining guarded about whether it's linked with a reported asylum bid by a Pyongyang diplomat. The confirmation came a day after reports emerged of North Korean ambassador to ...
The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday entrusted to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) the case relating to the knife attack on YSR Congress Party President Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy at Visakhapatnam Airport on October 25. The court passed the orders on petitions filed by leaders of YSR Congress, ...
Unidentified gunmen shot and critically injured a civilian on Friday in Tral area of Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district. Police said the gunmen fired at Simranjeet Singh in Khasipora village. "He was shifted to a local hospital where doctors referred him to Srinagar for...
Kerala Police will step up security for Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan following widespread protests in the state over the entry of two women to the Sabarimala shrine, a police officer said on Friday. T.K. Vinodkumar, chief of the police intelligence wing, said though the Chief ...
At least seven people were killed and eight injured after an explosion in a factory here on Thursday night brought down the building, police said on Friday. The factory, a double-storey building in west Delhi's Sudarshan Park area, was used for painting ceiling fans. ...
The Supreme Court on Friday said the bench that will hear a batch of cross petitions challenging the 2010 Allahabad High Court judgment on the Ayodhya title suit will decide the future course of the hearing. Taking up the applications for early hearing, a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjay Krishan Kaul said further orders o...
