External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday called on visiting Bhutan Prime Minister Lotay Tshering here during the course of which important aspects of the India-Bhutan relationship came up for discussion. Sushma Swaraj congratulated Tshering on his assuming pffoce, External Affairs...
India's oldest political party, Congress celebrated its 134th Foundation Day on Friday by hoisting the national flag and remembering some of its iconic leaders and freedom fighters. "Over the last 134 years of Congress history, we have stood for justice,...
The Rajya Sabha was on Friday adjourned for the day amid ruckus, minutes after it met for the day's proceedings. After the papers were laid, Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu took up Zero Hour submissions. However, a few members trooped to the Chair's podium holding ...
The Lok Sabha was adjourned till noon on Friday after it witnessed unrelenting protests by the Opposition on different issues, including the Rafale fighter jet deal and the Cauvery water dispute. As soon as the House began, the Congress, AIADMK and Telugu Desam Party (TDP)...
The Central government on Friday rushed an additional National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team to Meghalaya to assist the state in evacuating 15 miners who are trapped inside an illegal coal mine for 16 days now. Coal India Limited (CIL) officials have rushed to the site in remote Ksan area ...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday paid homage to A.O. Hume, the founder of India National Congress party, on it's 134th foundation day. "Homage to A.O. Hume, the founder of @INCIndia and Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, the first President of the party on its 134th Foundation Day," Banerjee ...
An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale rocked Indonesia's Papua Barat province on Friday, officials said. There was, however, no report of any casualty. The earthquake had an epicentre of 26 km under Manokwari town, but no tsunami...
Record-breaking cold continued on Friday in both Jammu and Srinagar cities as intense cold wave lashed Jammu and Kashmir, the Met Office said. "The minimum temperature in Jammu was 2.6 degrees Celsius on Friday which is the lowest in this season," an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official ...
A militant was killed on Friday in a shootout with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, officials said. Defence sources said the militants opened fire at a patrol party of the Rashtriya Rifles in Rinzipora village of Awantipora area on Friday morning....
It was a cold Friday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 5 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season's average, the Met Office said. The maximum temperature is expected to hover around 20 degrees Celsius, and the humidity at 8.30 a.m. was 91 per cent, an India Meteorological Department (IMD)...
