The Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave its approval for the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and African-Asian Rural Development Organisation (AARDO) for capacity building programmes in the rural development sector. "The MoU for the triennium 2015-2017 is being signed under which capacity building programmes for AARDO mem...
Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence narrowly beat Senator Tim Kaine as they sparred on US policies, the abortion law, the war in Syria and "safe zones" for refugees in the US in a 90-minute TV debate, a CNN poll showed. Debating Kaine on Tuesday night, Indiana Governor Pence taught a master class on how it's done. Every time K...
At least four women belonging to a minority community in Pakistan were killed by unknown assailants in an allegedly sectarian-motivated targeted killing late on Tuesday....
Delhi Tourism Minister Kapil Mishra on Tuesday created a flutter at a tourism event here by asking Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti if she considered slain Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani a terrorist, and said that tourism and terrorism cannot go together....
The Congress on Tuesday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to call the "Pakistani bluff" on the surgical strikes as the BJP asked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal whether he trusts the Indian Army or Islamabad's propaganda....
India on Tuesday alleged that Pakistan troops resorted to unprovoked heavy firing in at least three places on the de facto border in Jammu and Kashmir, stepping up the tension between the tense neighbours....
The BJP Delhi unit on Tuesday accused Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of acting as "Pakistan's spokesperson" and held a protest outside his official residence here to press for his resignation....
A police complaint has been filed against veteran actor Om Puri for his comments that were found to be insulting to Indian soldiers by a section of the film industry....
British trio -- David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz -- won Nobel Prize in Physics "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter" on Tuesday. ...
Parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) experienced intermittent rain on Tuesday afternoon affording residents a little respite from heat, the weather office said. The relief was, however, likely to be short-lived with humidity expected to rise, analysts said....
