Due to the lack of post-earthquake movement, leading to build-up strain in the faults, the Himalayan region may experience an earthquake far more destructive than the 2015 7.8 Nepal quake that killed 8,000 persons and destroyed parts of the country, says a study....
India's entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) will worsen the security situation in South Asia, a Chinese daily said on Tuesday. ...
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said every state has either supported or accepted the proposed Goods and Services Tax except Tamil Nadu, which expressed its reservations and offered suggestions....
The India-US relationship is now "stronger" than it may ever have been, The New York Times said in an editorial on Tuesday, praising the "deepened" partnership for finding a common cause to counter China's aggression in the region. ...
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of trying to get 21 AAP MLAs disqualified because he was scared of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). ...
About 12,000 Hindus, mostly migrant Kashmiri Pandits, on Tuesday gathered at the 'Sangam' (confluence) of the Jhelum river and Sindh stream in Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir to celebrate 'Maha Kumbh'. "Last time we had such alignment of celestial bodies was in 1941 and today after 75 years and 10 days the same celestial align...
The AAP on Tuesday blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the rejection by President Pranab Mukherjee of a bill for approving 21 MLAs as Parliamentary Secretaries in Delhi. "The central government is discriminating against our government in Delhi," Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh told a press conference here. "The Modi government shou...
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday confirmed that the person killed in a firing incident in Kud town of Udhampur district was a militant who had fired at the security forces. Minister Ghulam Nabi Hanjura, who belongs to the PDP, told the assembly that the person killed at Karnal Nallah in Kud town on Monday had been identi...
When lakhs of the devout took a dip in the Yamuna at ghats in Vrindavan, Mathura and Agra on Ganga Dussehra on Tuesday, they had a "face to face interaction" (sakshaat darshan) of the Kali Nag (evil serpent) in the form of pollution that has reduced the river to a sewage canal. Ganga Dussehra, symbolising the peaking of summer "and th...
Thousands of people rallied in the US city of Orlando on Monday night for the first official vigil to commemorate the victims in deadly mass shooting at a gay nightclub that left 50 people killed and 53 injured on Sunday...
