In an escalation of the diplomatic row, India on Wednesday summoned Pakistan's High Commissioner Abdul Basit over the "discourtesy" shown to New Delhi's top diplomat in Islamabad, Gautam Bambawale....
The daughter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's younger brother Prahladbhai died here on Tuesday following a prolonged heart illness, family sources said on Wednesday. She was 41....
The US has reiterated that it wants accountability from Pakistan on the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that left 166 people dead, but ruled out sanctions on the South Asian country for failing to weed out terrorists. "We want to see accountability and justice in the case of the Mumbai attacks... there were American citizens who lost...
Even as India is merging some state-run banks, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said there was no move to privatise them. He also said the target date of April 1 next year to implement a pan-India goods and services tax regime will be met. "I don't think that public or political opinion has converged to the point where we can...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday departed for Vientiane, Laos, where he will attend the 14th India-Asean Summit and the 11th East Asia Summit. "Another one for Acting East. Flurry of bilateral and multilateral engagements await as PM departs New Delhi for Laos," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup tweeted. Modi is scheduled to have a bi...
Srinagar, Sep 7 Three soldiers were injured on Wednesday when militants attacked an army convoy in Kashmir's Kupwara district. Police said militants attacked the convoy at Kralgund near Handwara town. Out of the three, one was in critical condition and was airlifted to the Army Hospital in Srinagar, a senior official said. ...
Seventh seeds Sania Mirza and Barbora Strycova were beaten 6-7 (3), 1-6 by top seeds Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic in the women's doubles quarter-finals of the US Open, thereby ending India's campaign in the tennis tournament....
Dinoire, who had the transplant surgery in 2005, died on April 22 in 2015, but it was only revealed on Tuesday, EFE news reported....
Raghuram Rajan, whose term as the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) ended on September 4, had a word of caution on interest rates for the global economy....
A number of senior IAS officials, including joint secretaries, on Tuesday called on Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh regarding the suspension of a colleague G.K. Dwivedi over the renewal of FCRA licence of controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik's NGO....
