Tamil Nadu Finance Minister O. Panneerselvam has taken charge of the portfolios earlier handled by Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa, officials said on Thursday. ...
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said India and Russia were both interested in deepening "constructive multilateral cooperation" to help rebuild war-torn Afghanistan where decisive action was needed to defeat terrorism. ...
Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-serving monarch, died on Thursday here at the age of 88, according to the Royal Household Bureau. ...
Caught in a bind over the appointment of the kin of senior CPI-M leaders to top government posts, the Pinarayi Vijayan government on Thursday decided to frame new laws to prevent recurrence of nepotism. ...
US singer Bob Dylan, who became an informal historian of America's troubles, on Thursday won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. ...
The Pakistan Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned for an indefinite period the hearing of a Pakistani Christian woman on death row for blasphemy after a judge refused to hear the case. ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to participate in the 350th birth anniversaryy celebrations of Guru Gobind Singh in Patna Sahib, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said here....
Indians are well known for their obsession for gold jewellery, but now gold coins issued by the government have also caught their fancy over regular, unbranded coins, a joint study commissioned by MMTC and the World Gold Council said here on Thursday. ...
India has sought greater market access for its goods, especially rice and pharmaceutical products, into China in view of its mounting trade deficit which is a cause of growing concern, an official statement said here on Thursday. ...
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has given Delhi's 21 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislators time till October 17 to explain why they should not be disqualified from the assembly after their appointment as Parliamentary Secretaries. ...
