Lack of proper planning, delays, lacunae in design and bad tendering may have triggered the collapse on Thursday of a 100-metre section of an under-construction flyover, leaving at least 14 dead and many injured, said engineering experts. ...
When Congress-led UPA government was in power, India was being run from Italy, BJP president Amit Shah said here on Thursday in a retort to Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi. "Rahulji came here and said Assam will be governed from Nagpur if BJP comes to power. I want to tell him that their government for 10 years was run from Italy when th...
The United Nations is risking its relevance in the absence of a strong and structured response to terrorism, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned. In an address to Indian diaspora in Belgium on Wednesday night, Modi regretted that the world had not come up with a proportionate response to terror despite the huge threat it posed to hu...
Suspended Gurdaspur Superintendent of Police Salwinder Singh on Thursday arrived at the NIA headquarters here to be questioned by the Joint Investigation Team from Pakistan on the Pathankot terror attack. Singh, his cook Madan Gopal and friend Rajesh Verma reached the NIA office where the JIT will question the three in the presence of National Inv...
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Thursday asked the Delhi High Court to direct the Uttar Pradesh police to probe the role of Congress leader P. Chidambaram, who was union minister of state for home at the time of 1987 Hashimpura massacre. Swamy told the division bench of Justice G.S. Sistani and Justice Sangita ...
When Congress-led UPA government was in power, India was being run from Italy, BJP president Amit Shah said here on Thursday in a retort to Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi. ...
At least two people were killed when a portion of a flyover under construction collapsed over taxis and other vehicles in the congested Posta area here on Thursday, police and witnesses said. Seven people were rescued from the spot and rushed to the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital. Several others were reported trapped under the debris at the site in the...
All designated branches of 'agency banks' will remain open till eight p.m. on Thursday to help people pay their taxes on the last day of the financial year 2015-16, the Reserve Bank of India said. 'Agency banks' are banks that are authorised to carry out government transactions, such as collection of taxes. The 'agency banks' will keep th...
Why wait for a million-dollar ticket to Mars when you can have an inter-planetary experience a la Oscar-nominated blockbuster "The Martian" right here in India?...
Vacuum cleaning and greening of roads began in the national capital on Thursday, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal informed....
