Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday invited people to take part in an online quiz on the initiatives his government has taken during the last two years. "An interesting governance quiz… Let's see how many you get it right. quiz.mygov.in," Modi tweeted. The web-link "https://quiz.mygov.in/" provided in his tweet opens a site t...
Fresh charges were pressed against Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Khaleda Zia and 26 others in two arson cases that took place in Dhaka in February and March last year. In both cases, Zia was named the perpetrator of the crimes even though her name was not mentioned in the First Information Reports (FIR) relating to the cases, the Daily Star reported. ...
Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar on Monday met a group of African students here and assured them of the safety and security of the community after a string of attacks on African nationals in India. “Continuing outreach to African community. Foreign secretary meets a group of African students,†external affair...
Pandemonium rocked the Jammu and Kashmir assembly on Monday as opposition members disrupted state finance minister Haseeb Drabu's budget speech. Independent MLA Engineer Rashid advanced to the speaker's podium, disrupting the finance minister's speech. He demanded a discussion on the deaths of two women who died in 2008 under mysterious circum...
An Indian businessman and his wife on Monday launched the largest legal action in the state of Victoria, seeking more than $1 billion in compensation from an Australian bank....
At the close of the Sixth World Congress of the Scholas Occurrentes, an educational organisation founded by the Pontiff, on Sunday in Rome, where young people from 190 countries participated, the Pope spoke in public with two of the stars of the video sharing platform, EFE news reported....
Between Saturday afternoon and early Sunday alone, one man was killed and 24 others wounded across Chicago, Xinhua news agency reported....
Police in Pakistan's Balochistan province on Sunday registered a case against unnamed American officials for the US drone strike that killed Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, and driver of a taxi in which he was travelling on May 21....
Hours after union Home Minister Rajnath Singh condemned attacks on Africans in the national capital and asked police to be more active, Delhi Police said on Sunday that six people, including a juvenile, were held for cases of assaults on five Africans but ruled out the crimes being planned or racial. ...
Attacking the Congress for spreading what it said was false propaganda against the government, the BJP said on Sunday that the opposition party was unable to digest the fact that the country was progressing under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ...
