The increasing trend of urban flooding in India poses a great challenge, resulting in cities being inundated from a few hours to several days, the government said on Tuesday....
Senior Congress leader A.K. Antony on Tuesday said that the rival fronts led by the ruling Congress and opposition CPI-M in Kerala were evenly poised ahead of the May 16 assembly polls....
Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi on Tuesday expressed concern over the "high pendency" of non-bailable warrants (NBW) in West Bengal and said the poll panel has issued strict directions to officials to ensure criminals and anti-social elements do not roam freely and intimidate voters during the upcoming polls....
Virtually all domestic airlines owe money to the state-run Airports Authority of India. But Vijay Mallya's Kingfisher Airlines, now inoperational, accounts for over 40 percent of that amount, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday. ...
Myanmar on Tuesday elected U Htin Kyaw of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party as its new president, the first civilian to lead the country after over 50 years of military rule, media reports said. ...
The Pope during consistory of cardinals on Tuesday announced September 4 as the date for Mother Teresa's canonisation, the media reported....
A sting operation allegedly showing several Trinamool Congress leaders accepting money in return for lobbying for a private firm snowballed into a major political row on Tuesday both within and outside parliament. ...
The government will honour the commitments made to Andhra Pradesh when Telengana was carved out of it, union minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said on Tuesday in the Lok Sabha. ...
A Congress worker was hacked to death on Tuesday in Alappuzha district of Kerala, following which a few people belonging to a left organisation have been detained, a senior police official said. ...
The government has been probing the cases of some "prominent people" hiding their taxable income as agricultural earnings, but there is no proposal for taxing the farmers, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. ...
