Patna, March 4 (IANS) JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar is more of a 'deshbhakt' (patriot) than BJP leaders who have dubbed him anti-national, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Friday. Nitish Kumar made the remarks after ending a two-day visit to Nepal, and a day after Kanhaiya Kumar was released after being in jail for 20 days on s...
More next-of-kin of those on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are filing suits as the deadline for legal action against the carrier approaches. ...
India's pioneering film archivist and film scholar P.K. Nair, who won the epithet 'celluloid man' for his impeccable body of work as the founder and former director of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI), breathed his last on Friday morning. He was 82....
It was to the sagacity of his stint as a member of parliament for many years from Tura constituency in northeastern Meghalaya that the 68- year-old veteran parliamentarian Purno Agitok Sangma rose to become the country's first tribal Lok Sabha speaker -- from 1996 to 1998 -- an era when the concept of coalition politics was becomin...
The BSF's new Director General K.K. Sharma on Friday arrived here to inspect a 50-metre long tunnel unearthed on Thursday that facilitated infiltration from the Pakistani side of the international border, an official said. ...
India's pioneering film archivist and film scholar P.K. Nair, the founder and former director of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI), passed away here on Friday morning following prolonged illness, said filmmaker and film archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur. He was 82....
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a bipartisan body that monitors religious freedom abroad, has expressed disappointment at the denial of visas for what it said was a long planned trip to India. ...
Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf is expected to testify in two important cases - one relating to Benazir Bhutto’s murder and the other concerning high treason charge - in the coming weeks. ...
Key Indian equity market indices were trading flat on Friday, after three straight days of gains. The key indices, however, opened in the positive territory. ...
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the CBI on a plea by the Delhi government seeking the return of documents that the investigating agency had taken from the office of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal following a raid. ...
