Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday paid a surprise visit to the Goa Assembly on the first day of its three-day budget session. Gandhi arrived at the Assembly precincts just after noon and went to the opposition lobby. He met the Congress legislators. ...
A stable relationship between India, Japan and the US will be the key to peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region, according to an eminent Japanese philanthropist. Speaking at a panel discussion on "Can the India-Japan partnership be a factor ...
Like lakhs of hopefuls, George Fernandes had come to Bombay (now, Mumbai) aged barely 19 looking for a job and spent many a nights on the mean streets, fighting roaches and rodents, but never complaining, old-timers reminisced. Unlike Oliver Twist, he never "asked for more" but went on to earn it the hard ...
The Centre on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking its nod for giving a part of the 67 acres of undisputed land to the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas and other original owners. The top court was moved for the modification of its March 31, 2003 order, ...
Congress leader and six-time former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh was diagnosed positive for swine flu, doctors said on Tuesday. His condition is stable. He was admitted to the Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital in Shimla on ...
A band of ornithologists armed with binoculars and logbooks on Tuesday set out for a unique race -- to count and identify feathered guests from the trans-Himalayas holidaying at the famed Pong wetlands of Kangra Valley, officials said. This dawn-to-dusk exercise will culminate on Wednesday....
Five Maoists were killed by security forces in Jharkhand's Khuti district on Tuesday, police said. Based on a tip-off about the presence of Maoists, the state police and CRPF launched a search operation on Monday night in a forest in Arki. ...
President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi along with many others from across political lines paid homage to former Union Minister George Fernandes, who died on Tuesday after prolonged illness. Modi called the 88-year-old long-time socialist a "fiery trade union leader",...
It was a cold Tuesday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 5.4 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season's average, the weather office said. "There was shallow fog in the morning and there will be haze throughout the ...
A severe cold wave tightened its grip on Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday even as the Met forecast another spell of moderate snowfall beginning late on Wednesday. "Moderate snowfall is likely to occur in plains and higher reaches of the valley tomorrow evening, when the 40-day long period of harsh winter cold ...
