West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday urged people to show humanity in every action....
A panel of Pakistan Senate has decided to invite transgender activists to discuss issues facing the community and find a way to prevent violations of their rights. The matter was forwarded to the Senate Standing Committee on Marginalised Segments after Senator Maulana Hafiz Hamdullah raised the issue during a session on Friday, Dawn r...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday Prime Minister Narendra Modi is aware that demonetisation has "derailed" and he has no solution except for delivering lectures. "Modi babu knows that demonetisation (has) now derailed. Except giving bhashan, he has no solution," Banerjee tweeted. The Trinamool Congress supremo said she h...
It was a foggy Saturday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 11.2 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season's average, the weather office said. At least 101 trains were delayed and 11 cancelled due to dense fog in parts of north India, railway officials said. "At least 18 trains were rescheduled," a Northern Railway offi...
The Tibetan government-in-exile on Saturday alleged that human rights violations in Tibet was high, citing an ongoing massive demolition drive by China at the world's largest Buddhist institute there. "China's total disregard for human rights is currently demonstrated by the ongoing massive demolition at Larung Gar, the largest Tibetan Buddhist Institute in ...
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has told US President-elect Donald Trump that he will not hold a post in the new administration, the transition team said on Friday....
A former IIT director on Friday slammed the central government's domination in the functioning of the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs), saying the premier educational establishments are now "dictated" by the Union Human Resource Development Ministry....
In a stinging reply to Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, after he criticised her for making allegations against the Indian Army, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday accused him of making "near-defamatory" remarks and took "strong exception" to his "wild assertion" that her allegations had impacted morale of...
The Supreme Court on Friday asked the government to state the threshold limit of cash that each account holder can withdraw from banks across the country without being refused....
Over 1,900 tourists were taken to safety by air and sea from Andaman and Nicobar islands till Friday evening, the Defence Ministry said....
