Continuing its free fall on Thursday, the minimum temperature dropped to minus 2.3 degrees in Srinagar and 7.9 in Jammu, the lowest recorded at both plac...
Russia has joined in the search for an Argentine military submarine that went...
Rashtrapati Bhavan, the sprawling official residence of the Indian President, will now be open for public viewing -- four days a week. Starting on Thursday, for a charge of Rs 50, which is exempted for children below eight years, people can visit the British-built President's house on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday between 9 a.m. and 4...
Patidar leader Hardik Patel on Wednesday extended his support to the Congress in Assembly elections after it promised to give job quotas to the Patel community under the OBC category in Gujarat. Hardik Patel made the much awaited announcement on behalf of the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) at a crowded press conference here and said PAA...
A US Navy aircraft with 11 people on board crashed into the sea off the coast of Japan on Wednesday while on its way to the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, military officials said. The Japan-based US 7th Fleet said in a statement that a search and rescue operation had been launched from the carrier. It said the ship was operating in the Phili...
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday said he will be appointing a four-member committee on the recommendation of the Justice P.S. Antony Judicial Commission that has suggested cancellation of Malayalam news channel Mangalam TV's license. While giving a clean chit to former Kerala Transport Minister A.K. Saseendran, the Antony C...
The Philippines government on Wednesday announced the end of the stalled peace talks with the New People's Army, a Communist rebel outfit considered a terrorist group by the US and the European Union. The Manila agency in charge of the peace talks attributed its decision to the Communists' lack of willingness to negotiate and their recent a...
Australian Justice Minister Michael Keenan on Wednesday announced the establishment of a new South East Asian group to counter the funding of terrorism in the region. Keenan, Australia's Minister for Justice and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Counter Terrorism, announced the new South East Asia Counter Terrorism Financing Work...
Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy will submit a report to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on the killing of a journalist by a Tripura State Rifle (TSR) trooper on Tuesday. "I am going to Delhi today (Wednesday) and would meet Home Minister Rajnath Singh to give a report on the killing of the journalist Sudip Datta Bhowmik by a T...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the plea for the recall of its order banning the use of pet coke and furnace oil by industries in the National Capital Region (NCR). The court also rejected a plea by the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) seeking extension of time to switch over to an alternate fuel. Rejecting the plea by som...
