The ongoing crisis in Venezuela is not an economic one but a US-backed coup d'etat attempt against President Nicolas Maduro, the Latin American country's Ambassador to India Augusto Montiel said on Tuesday....
BJP's newly nominated Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to remove RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, saying "he is mentally not fully Indian"....
Insisting that the Olympics are more important than any other tournament, Indian hockey team skipper Sardar Singh said he is happy with the selection committee's decision to rest him from the 18-member Champions Trophy squad announced on Tuesday....
Opposing the decision of boards of directors of five associate banks of State Bank of India (SBI) to close down and merge with SBI, the All India Bank Employees' Association (AIBEA) has called a strike on May 20....
Representatives of political parties in Manipur are busy drafting a memorandum calling upon their central leaders to support presidential assent for three bills that introduce a system to check influx of migrants into the north-eastern state. A committee, chaired by Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam, has finished drafting the memorandum,...
The Delhi High Court on Monday sought the response of the AAP government on a PIL against its "politically motivated" decision to offer a job on compassionate grounds to the brother of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula, who committed suicide in January. The Delhi government told a division bench of Chief Justice G. Ro...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to lay the foundation stone for a new India-Bangladesh railway project on May 27, a top railway official said on Tuesday. A top official of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) said that Modi on May 27 would also flag off a regular passenger train service from Agartala to Sealdah, Agartala to Silchar an...
The Bharatiya Janata Party, which has been governing the Delhi Municipal Corporations for over eight years now, since before its trifurcation, suffered a major setback losing 10 of the 13 wards to which byelection was held. Contesting its maiden civic polls in the national capital, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) grabbed five wards from...
The voter turnout in Kerala for the assembly elections was a tad higher at 77.35 percent as compared to 75.12 percent in the previous elections, an official said here on Tuesday....
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won two wards and the Congress and the AAP are leading in four wards each as counting of votes cast in bypolls to 13 wards in three civic bodies got underway here on Tuesday....
