Pakistan approached the World Bank to complain that India despite the arbitrator's pause period had completed the construction of the disputed $860-million Kishanganga hydropower project in Jammu and Kashmir. ...
The key indices of the domestic equity markets escalated after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday maintained status quo on its key short-term lending rate at 6 per cent at its first bi-monthly monetary policy review of 2018-19....
The setting up of the Kerala Bank by merging 14 district cooperative banks with the Kerala State Cooperative Bank (KSCB) is all set to become a reality, a minister said here on Thursday....
The Lahore High Court on Thursday ordered government authorities to not "harass" banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief and 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed and allow him to continue his "social welfare activities". The founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) alleged in a petition that the government was interfering in his party's ...
The BJP on Thursday accused West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee of "murdering democracy" in the state. Addressing reporters here, Bharatiya Janata Party leaders from West Bengal said that they would also meet Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to inform him about the crimes against humanity that still conti...
An Indian woman has died after being bitten by a poisonous ant in the Saudi Arabian capital. Soosy Jeffy, 36, who was from Adoor in Kerala, was bitten on March 19 at her residence and was undergoing treatment, the Khaleej Times reported on Wednesday citing her relatives. She died on Tuesday. According to experts, a few ant species can inflict poisono...
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was sentenced to five years of imprisonment by a court here on Thursday in the 1998 blackbuck poaching case, while the other four co-accused stars -- Sonali Bendre, Saif Ali Khan, Tabu and Neelam -- were acquitted of all charges. ...
US President Donald Trump has officially signed a memorandum to deploy the National Guard to the country's border with Mexico, a move that followed days of him calling for a larger crackdown on illegal immigration. In the memo signed on Wednesday evening, Trump declared that Defence Secretary James Mattis "shall request use of National Guar...
The Lok Sabha was once again unable to take up the no-confidence motion notices given by opposition MPs amid ruckus on the penultimate day of the Budget Session, the second half of which appears to be headed for a washout. So far there are no signs of the logjam getting resolved. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar, meanwhile, a...
In a first such revelation, Facebook has admitted that data of nearly 5.6 lakh Indian users may have been "improperly" shared with British political analytics company Cambridge Analytica. In a blog post, Mike Schroepfer, Chief Technology Officer at Facebook, showed country-specific break-up of people affected by the data br...
