Minimum temperatures improved throughout Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday due to a nightlong cloud cover as the 40-day long period of harsh winter cold 'Chillai Kalan' ended. The Met forecasts moderate snowfall in the valley beginning later in the day....
As reported earlier by IANS, Dubai billionaire Rashid Al Habtoor had made a bid of Rs 4,200 crore for the stressed asset. With four top-of-the-line properties -- Delhi's Chanakyapuri, Bangalore, Chennai and Udaipur nestled along Lak Pichola's banks -- up for grabs, the race is getting murky. ...
A number of websites are under the scanner of security agencies for propagating Salafism and the ultra-conservative practice of Islam known as Wahhabism as part of what is being seen as a carefully-crafted strategy to spread radical Islam in India. ...
The Sahitya Akademi on Tuesday recommended four distinguished Indian writers as its fellows: Jayant Mahapatra, Padma Sachdev, Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari and Nagen Saikia. ...
CBI Superintendent of Police T. Rajah Balaji, who filed a plea in the Supreme Court on Monday against his transfer order, called the agency's interim Director M. Nageswara "not a man of honour" in a strongly worded letter to him and expressed hope that he would "redeem humanity"....
A Delhi court on Tuesday issued summons to journalist Priya Ramani in a defamation case filed by former Union Minister M.J. Akbar. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal asked Ramani to appear before the court on February 25....
The Centre on Tuesday announced additional assistance of Rs 7,214 crore to six states and Puducherry that were affected by natural disasters during 2018-19. The decision was taken by a high-level committee chaired by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and will cater to the needs of those states that have faced ...
Congress President Rahul Gandhi tweeted about the Rafale audio tape and Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's possession of "explosive Rafale secrets" on Monday just because he is in Goa and wants to keep the issue alive, Agriculture Minister Vijai Sardesai said on Tuesday....
The CPI-M on Tuesday expressed "strong disapproval" of the petition moved by the Central government in the Supreme Court to remove the status quo on the "non-disputed land", and said the status quo must be maintained. In 1993, the Supreme Court had ordered that the status quo be maintained on 67 ...
Priyanka Gandhi, who has finally taken the plunge into politics, may soon log in to the world of social media through Facebook and Twitter from which she had stayed away all along. After formally assuming the role of Congress General Secretary in-charge of...
