Senior Congress leaders in Kerala, Oommen Chandy, V.M. Sudheeran and Ramesh Chennithala are scheduled to meet party Vice President Rahul Gandhi in Delhi on Saturday....
Suspected militants have abducted an Indian female aid worker from the volatile Afghanistan capital of Kabul, Indian and Afghan officials said on Friday. The woman was identified as Judith D'Souza, 40, a senior technical advisor on gender with the Aga Khan Developmental Network in Kabul, sources in Delhi said. Believed to be from Kolkata, D'Souza was kidn...
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday suspended a revenue officer and some others for including a legislator in the Below Poverty Line (BPL) list. A Tehsildar and some revenue and Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) employees have been suspended, a government official told IANS. The state assembly witnessed uproar after reports...
The Election Commission has declared that polling for four Rajya Sabha seats from Karnataka will be held as scheduled on June 11 at the state's secretariat. "In seven states, including Karnataka, the (biennial) election will be held on June 11 to fill the four seats in the Rajya Sabha, as the six-year term of the three outgoing lawmakers' la...
Thousands of people have gathered to pay their last respects to boxing legend Muhammad Ali who passed away at age 74 a week ago. The two-day funeral began on Thursday at the Freedom Hall arena where Ali had some of the best bouts at the dawn of his distinguished boxing career. Some 14,000 free tickets were issued to attend the jenazah, reports Tass. ...
Pakistan has expressed concern over growing strategic ties between India and the US, a day after the two countries signed a number of agreements for security cooperation during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US. Addressing a conference at the Foreign Office on Thursday, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said th...
Washington, June 10 US President Barack Obama has formally endorsed Hillary Clinton and called her the most qualified candidate to seek the White House, imploring Democrats to come together to elect her, the media reported....
No electronic dance music (EDM) festivals will be allowed in Goa during the festive week of Christmas and New Year, Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar said on Thursday, claiming that such events lead to chaos in Goa during "peak season". ...
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has claimed that former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto did not want Nawaz Sharif to return to Pakistan before the 2008 general elections. ...
An internal enquiry by Bank of Baroda (BoB) in freezing the accounts of a marginal farmer in Uttar Pradesh for being a 'guarantor' to the Rs 550 crore loan it gave to tycoon Vijay Mallya revealed that the state-run bank had mistaken the farmer to be the real guarantor, who goes by the same name. ...
