The Congress on Saturday asserted that the Narendra Modi government is not serious about getting controversial business tycoon Vijay Mallya back to India....
Following is the text of the letter written by Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan in which he has made it clear that he is not interested in a second term, and that he will return to academia when his term ends in September:...
Former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was on Saturday handed down life imprisonment by a Cairo criminal court on charges of espionage....
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday voiced concern over the sacking of a teacher for wearing the "Abahaya" by the Delhi Public School management here and said it was a "serious issue and Kashmir is not France"....
Flying Officers Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh on Saturday were commissioned as India's first three women fighter pilots. On completion of successful training at the Air Force Academy in Dundigal on the outskirts of Hyderabad, the trio were formally commissioned into the Indian Air Force (IAF) by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and we...
In a case of alleged police brutality, a Class 10 girl student fell unconscious and had to be hospitalised after she was interrogated for more than 10 hours at a police station in Jharkhand's Latehar district. The girl remained unconscious for more than 70 hours after the questioning by police on June 14 at Manika Polic...
The southwest monsoon that set over Kerala on June 8 is gathering force with rains expected to become progressively heavier until next Wednesday, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Saturday. There were heavy rains in Kerala on Friday night on account of the southwest monsoon which arrived a week late in the state. S...
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-Cha on Saturday visited Bodh Gaya and prayed at the Mahabodhi temple, Buddhists' holiest shrine, officials said. Gaya District Magistrate Kumar Ravi said Prayut Chan-o-Cha, who arrived at Bodh Gaya international airport on Saturday morning, offered prayers and circumambulated the Mahabodhi tree under which Lord Buddha is said ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena inaugrated newly-renovated Duraiappah Stadium in Jaffna on Saturday. While Sirisena was present at the stadium in Jaffna, Modi joined the event through video-conferencing from New Delhi. Modi said that Indian government with Sirisena jointly dedicate to the people o...
The authorities restored internet services here on Saturday as normality returned after three days of disturbances over two incidents of desecration of temples. "All internet services have been restored in Jammu city. These services had been suspended temporarily to prevent anti-social elements from spreading wild rumours to stoke passio...
