The Election Commission here on Friday said all the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the upcoming assembly polls in five states will have a specially designed symbol for None of the above (NOTA). ...
Assembly elections in Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry will be held in April and May, Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi announced on Friday....
China’s defence spending will increase by about 7 to 8 percent this year, the government said on Friday, adding that the rise was lower than that of last year. "China’s military budget will continue to increase but it will be lower than last year’s,†Fu Ying, spokesperson for National People’s Conference (NPC) - Chi...
Former Lok Sabha speaker P.A. Sangma died following a heart attack here on Friday morning. He was 68. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his tenure as Lok Sabha speaker would remain unforgettable. Sangma presided over the 11th Lok Sabha as speaker from 1996 to 1998. He also remained chief minister of Meghalaya from 1988 to 1990. Sangma was elected t...
The decision to allow a probe team from Pakistan into the Pathankot IAF base will be a "political decision", Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha said on Friday. The IAF, he said, wants a "closure" to the terror attack in January with action taken against the perpetrators. Asked if the IAF will have any problem on ...
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to pass any interim order on call drop issue as it will hold a hearing on March 10 on a plea challenging the regulator's decision to compensate subscribers for call drops. The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) and the Association of Unified Service Provider of India challenged the Telecom Regulator Authority of In...
Patna, March 4 (IANS) JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar is more of a 'deshbhakt' (patriot) than BJP leaders who have dubbed him anti-national, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Friday. Nitish Kumar made the remarks after ending a two-day visit to Nepal, and a day after Kanhaiya Kumar was released after being in jail for 20 days on s...
More next-of-kin of those on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are filing suits as the deadline for legal action against the carrier approaches. ...
India's pioneering film archivist and film scholar P.K. Nair, who won the epithet 'celluloid man' for his impeccable body of work as the founder and former director of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI), breathed his last on Friday morning. He was 82....
It was to the sagacity of his stint as a member of parliament for many years from Tura constituency in northeastern Meghalaya that the 68- year-old veteran parliamentarian Purno Agitok Sangma rose to become the country's first tribal Lok Sabha speaker -- from 1996 to 1998 -- an era when the concept of coalition politics was becomin...
