Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that the central government is making sincere efforts to ensure the development of the northeastern region. “India will grow when all its regions grow together. I see no reason why the northeast can't be developed,†Modi said, speaking at the inauguration of the 65th Plenary Sessio...
Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee was on Friday sworn-in as West Bengal's chief minister for the second time. Forty-one others also were sworn-in as her ministers....
President Barack Obama on Friday arrived in Hiroshima, the first visit by a sitting US president to the site of the world's first atomic bombing. "This is an opportunity to honour the memory of all those who were lost in the Second World War. It's a chance to pursue peace and security, a world where nuclear weapons would no longer be necessary," he said during a visit ...
Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi on Friday paid tributes to the nation's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, on his 52nd death anniversary. "Remembering Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary," Modi said in a tweet. Ansari and Sonia visited Nehru's...
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has sought a report from the state government over the incident of a Nigerian student being attacked over a parking dispute in Hyderabad. "On reports of a Nigerian student injured in Hyderabad: EAM @SushmaSwaraj has urgently sought report from State Govt, is monitoring the case", ministry spo...
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the NEET ordinance, saying that its validity on the ground it violated Article 14 of the constitution could be challenged when the court opened after the summer break. An apex court vacation bench of Justice Prafulla C. Pant and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, while declining to pass any interim order, said that a...
By securing 1,238 delegates, one more than the magic number required, Trump has wrapped up victory in the Republican primary season and avoided a contested convention that some of his political enemies within the Grand Old Party had been seeking, EFE news reported....
Seventeen of the 19 ministers sworn in in Kerala have criminal cases against them, including three with serious criminal charges, an analysis of their poll affidavits by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) shows....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hit out at the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for "looting" public money and claimed that during the two years of his regime there was no charge of corruption....
Leading bread makers on Thursday said that they will give up the use of potassium bromate and potassium iodate in wake of a Centre for Science and Environment study flagging their harmful effects on health, including causing cancer. The CSE welcomed the decision....
