CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday urged the central government to work out a political solution to problems in the restive Kashmir Valley. "We have to end the violence and the current bloodshed in Kashmir. And start a political process to bring an end to the problems of people of Kashmir," Yechury said in the Rajya Sab...
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Wednesday that the Congress-led UDF was set to disintegrate with the departure of the Kerala Congress (Mani) from the alliance. "When we told you during the election campaign that the UDF will disintegrate after the election, you did not take us seriously. Now it has happened," Vijayan told the media. It was the fir...
The extensive tests being carried out for Jio 4G services before a full-fledged launch not only have legal sanctity, but are also aimed at ensuring high quality offering in a market where call drops have become common place, Reliance Industries has said. Taking umbrage at a series of remarks by the Cellular Operators' Association o...
Rejecting an official offer to study their demands, over 16,00,000 employees of the Uttar Pradesh government began a three-day strike on Wednesday. The strike has been called by the State Employees Joint Council and Uttar Pradesh Secondary Teachers Federation and is supported by more than 250 employees and teachers organisations. The stri...
In a major breakthrough, the Mumbai police have arrested five medicos, including the CEO and Medical Director of the reputed L.H. Hiranandani Hospital in Powai, in connection with a racket in kidney sales, officials said. Hospital CEO Dr. Sujit Chatterjee, Medical Director Dr. Anurag Naik and three other medicos Prakash Shetty, Mukesh Sh...
The bus was hit two times after leaving Deodoro, north of Rio, for Barra Olympic park, southwest in the city. Police searched the bus and said it was stones, not bullets, to break the window, Xinhua news agency reported....
Pakistan has urged United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Prince Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein to make efforts to end the "persistent and egregious" violation of human rights in Jammu and Kashmir, a statement from the Prime Minister's House said on Tuesday....
The head priests of temples here on Tuesday said they would not allow the installation of Ravana's idol in a temple in Bisrakh, Greater Noida. ...
Two days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed concern over cow vigilantism, the Home Ministry on Tuesday issued an advisory to the states asking them to punish those taking the law in their hands in the name of protecting cattle....
A day after Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti urged New Delhi to take up the peace process that Atal Bihari Vajpayee started, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged on Tuesday to take forward the former Prime Minister's vision of Insaniyat, Jamahooriyat and Kashmiriyat....
