All India Mahila Congress on Saturday staged a protest outside BJP headquarters demanding immediate rollback of tax on Employees' Provident Fund (EPF). ...
China on Saturday said its defence spending will rise by 7.6 percent in 2016 -- the lowest in six years, as it struggles to tide over an economic downturn. The hike against last year's 10.1 percent increase works out to be 954.354 billion yuan (about $146 billion) which is far lower than the US military expenditure of $598.5 billion in 2015. T...
Hyderabad police on Saturday served notice to son of a Andhra Pradesh minister for allegedly misbehaving with a woman. Banajara Hills police inspector served the notice to Ravela Sushil, son of Andhra Pradesh's minister for social welfare Ravela Kishore Babu, under section 41A of Code of Criminal Procedure. Sushil has been asked...
Heading into the next round of presidential nomination contests over the weekend, tough talking Republican front-runner Donald Trump made clear that he would not order the US military to violate international laws to fight terrorism. Pundits were quick to see "an abrupt about-face" in the brash billionaire's explanation who has tied the...
As the UN vowed firm action to root out sex abuse by peacekeepers, the Indian blue helmets have received a clean chit for 2015. Calling the total of 69 cases of sexual exploitation and abuse recorded against peacekeepers last year an "abomination", Under Secretary-General Atul Khare told reporters Friday, "We will never, neve...
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has approved launching of the "Green Pakistan Programme" whereby over 100 million trees will be planted all across the country, the media reported on Saturday. The idea, according to a press statement released by the Prime Minister's Office on Friday, is based on the "Great Green Wall Programme" of China -- a series of human-planted...
Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar on Friday said sedition charge was being used against those raising different issues in the country....
Four nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, including one from India, were killed by unidentified gunmen at a care home for the elderly in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, a spokesperson for the Mother Teresa-founded Catholic Order said. ...
Kanhaiya Kumar’s genius as a public speaker is self evident from his first speech in JNU on February 11 and the one he made on the campus after returning from Tihar Jail on March 3. The CPI feels it has a legitimate right to hitch its wagon to this new star...
The Election Commission on Friday announced a staggered six-phase polling to the 294-member West Bengal assembly, beginning with the state's vulnerable Left Wing Extremism (LWE) or Maoist-hit areas. ...
