Amid speculation that he may reshuffle his ministers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met his ministers and reviewed the important projects, official sources said....
Srinagar, June 30 Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was on Thursday sworn in as a legislator from Anantnag constituency. Assembly Speaker Kavinder Gupta gave the oath of office to Mehbooba Mufti, who was on June 25 declared elected from Anantnag in south Kashmir. She defeated her nearest rival, Hilal Ahmad Shah of Congress, by over 12,000 votes. ...
Eight persons, including three infants, were killed when a major fire engulfed a medical store in suburban Andheri in Mumbai early on Thursday, an official said. Another three persons, including a fireman battling the blaze, have been injured. Of whom, a woman is in critical condition, said an official of BMC Disaster Control. The cause of t...
At least 40 people were killed on Thursday when a suicide bomber attacked an Afghan police convoy outside capital Kabul, BBC reported. Two bombs hit vehicles carrying cadets returning from a graduation ceremony on the city's western outskirts. Paghman district Governor Haji Mohammad Musa Khan told the BBC that many more had been injured. The bombing was cl...
A Briton, arrested after allegedly trying to steal a police officer’s gun to shoot Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump, has been charged with illegal possession of a weapons and disruption. Michael Sandford, 20, from Dorking in Surrey, was taken into custody at a Trump campaign event last week at the Treasure ...
India on Thursday successfully test fired an Indo-Israeli Medium Range Surface-to-Air Missile off the coast of Odisha, officials said. The ballistic missile was fired from launch pad 3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur in Balasore district at 8.16 a.m. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar congratulated the Defence Research and Developme...
The Gujarat government and the BJP threatened members of a traders body in Surat into cancelling a July 10 meeting to which Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had been invited as they are nervous about the AAP, Kejriwal said on Thursday. "The businessmen say they are getting calls from Gandhinagar, saying if Kejriwal is called...
Drawing a parallel between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the RSS with Hitler and his idea of nationalism, CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday warned against the metamorphosis of a "secular democratic republic of India into a rabidly intolerant fascistic Hindu Rashtra"....
A bonanza of 16 per cent pay hike and 24 per cent increase in pension, with arrears from January this year, awaits 47 lakh serving central government employees and 53 lakh pensioners with the Union Cabinet giving its approval to 7th Pay Commission recommendations on Wednesday....
A temporary state secretariat of Andhra Pradesh was on Wednesday formally inaugurated at the upcoming state capital Amaravati, two years after the state's bifurcation and the carving of separate Telengana. ...