Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday visited the Mahaveer Philippine Foundation here that has helped rehabilitate thousands of disabled people in the country with the famed Jaipur Foot. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said that Modi interacted with nine-year old Carlo Migel Silvano from Bulacan province at Mahaveer Philippine F...
Disgruntled BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha on Monday demanded that all interrogations into the murder of seven-year-old Pradhuman Thakur must be done under "camera surveillance" with no "third-degree torture". The Class 2 Ryan International school student was found with his throat slit inside the Gurugram school washroom on September 8 ju...
Beijing, Nov 13 China on Monday said the US, Japan, India and Australia should not target Beijing, a day after the four met on the sidelines of the Asean Summit in Manila and decided to work for a "free, open, prosperous and inclusive Indo-Pacific region". China also said the US-brokered proposal of these countries to ensure free and open...
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he had a "great relationship" with his Philippines counterpart Rodrigo Duterte, who is accused of carrying out a brutal campaign of extrajudicial killings in his nations war on drugs. The two leaders met for the first time briefly on Friday at an economic summit in Danang, Vietnam, and were photographed r...
Last week's decision of the GST Council to slash the Goods Services Tax on over 200 items was prompted by the "scare of defeat looming large" on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Gujarat Assembly elections, its key ally Shiv Sena said here on Monday. The BJP, which till the other day proclaimed arrogantly that there wou...
The Delhi government on Monday did not file a review petition in the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on the odd-even ruling, two days after it decided to hold the traffic rationing scheme in abeyance and said it would request the green court to exempt women and two-wheelers from the restrictions. The NGT questioned the Delhi ...
A Facebook post by a gangster, involved in the killing of a Hindu leader in Amritsar, admitting to his crime, has left the Punjab Police embarrassed. Saraj Sandhu, who is being chased by the state police, not only admitted to killing Hindu Sangharsh Sena leader Vipan Sharma, but even suggested that the "killing should not be linked to relig...
At least 207 people were killed after a powerful earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale struck an area near the Iran-Iraq border, authorities confirmed on Monday. Iranian Deputy Health Minister Qasem Jan Babaie told the media that the number of casualties was likely to rise, adding that at least 1,600 people were injured, reports Efe news....
Two troopers of 18 Assam Rifles were killed and six others injured in a bomb blast in Manipur's Chandel district near the India-Myanmar border on Monday, sources in the police said. The incident took place at 6 a.m., near the District Collectorate, when suspected insurgents detonated a remote-controlled bomb on the roadside. Rifleman Indra Singh was killed on...
The death toll in Sunday's boat capsize in Andhra Pradesh's Krishna district rose to 19 as three more bodies were recovered from Krishna river on Monday, police said. The search was on for two missing persons. The overloaded boat of a private operator carrying 42 tourists capsized near Ibrahimpatnam Ferry Ghat near here on Sunday evening. The tourist...
