With a fresh outbreak of bird flu being reported in Tripura, the mass culling of more than 8,000 chicken and ducks began on Saturday in the western part of the state, officials said here. "We have started culling of chickens, ducks and other poultry birds today (Saturday) at the government-run animal farm at Gandhigram in western Tripura. We...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said the new "Start-Up India" scheme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to promote and nurse entrepreneurship will ensure minimum interference from the government with attractive tax incentives. "Start-Up India will change conventions. Government will merely be a facilitator for start-ups," the fi...
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday left for Palestine and Israel to review bilateral relations, it was announced here. ...
Nine people were arrested after a brawl over misbehaviour with a Muslim couple travelling on the Kushinagar Express on suspicion that they were carrying cow meat, police said on Friday....
Shahid Rafi, son of the legendary singer, the late Mohammed Rafi, dumped the AIMIM and joined the Congress in the presence of party vice president Rahul Gandhi here on Friday....
Countering the claim of Delhi Police, the head of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) forensic department, Dr Sudhir Gupta, has said that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report "did not rule out the presence of radioactive substances" in Sunanda Pushkar's viscera samples....
At one stage seemingly set to lose the final, Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis came up with a stupendous performance to earn a fantastic come-from-behind victory and clinch the Sydney International title at the Ken Rosewall Arena here on Friday....
Court orders and warnings by police had no impact on cockfights as the violent sport was openly organised in parts of coastal Andhra on the occasion of Sankranti with crores or rupees changing hands. ...
Manpreet Singh Badal, an estranged nephew of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, on Friday merged his People's Party of Punjab with the Congress to unitedly take on SAD-BJP in the assembly polls in the state early next year. ...
Firing and infiltration has continued at the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir, but India has given a befitting reply, the army chief, General Dalbir Singh said on Friday. ...
