The Congress-led opposition on Tuesday staged its first walkout in the Kerala assembly to protest the alleged high-handedness of CPI-M workers towards two Dalit women in Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's hometown and also the "callous" attitude of the police....
Nearly one in two Indians have granted access to contacts and mobile data in exchange for free apps and close to 40 per cent have granted access to their camera, revealed global leader in cyber security Norton by Symantec on Tuesday. ...
Security forces on Tuesday shot dead a top Hizbul Mujahideen militant in Jammu and Kashmir, triggering violent protests in Sopore to which he belonged. ...
A 40-year-old woman cab driver was found dead in her rented house in the city's northwest suburb, police said on Tuesday....
Climate change and vicious river bank erosion in the post-Farakka Barrage period have blurred the lines between the rich and the poor and are pushing successive generations to grinding poverty along the lower stretches of the mighty Ganga in West Bengal....
A continental market with China, Russia and India as key stakeholders can be formed to reshape the global energy sector, a Chinese expert has said. The three countries can also insist on an Asian pricing system, Xinhua news agency quoted Ren Zhihong of the Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences as saying. Xinhua said that although ...
The Taj Mahal in India is among the 50 most beautiful places in Asia, according to Conde Nast Traveler (CNT) magazine. The 17th-century Taj, built entirely in marble by Mughal emperor Shahjahan in memory of his wife Mumtaz, is located in Agra, about 200 km south of New Delhi. It is India's most visited tourist spot. Xinhua news agency quoted CNT as...
A majority of Republican voters - 52 per cent - said they would have preferred someone else other than Donald Trump as their party's presidential nominee, a new poll has revealed. Less than half - 45 percent - of Republican voters said they were satisfied with Trump, according to the latest results from an NBC News-Wall Street Journal pol...
Srinagar, June 28 (IANS) Security forces on Tuesday shot dead a Hizbul Mujahideen militant in a gun battle in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district. Sameer Wani, identified as a "top local Hizbul commander", died in Nagri village, a police officer told IANS. Security forces had surrounded a house following information that a group of militants were hiding th...
Vice President Hamid Ansari on Monday hailed former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao for initiating basic changes in the economy with his policies of 1991 but also maintained that while his "good" works have lived on and "changed" the country, the "harm" continues to extract a heavy toll....
