Eight persons, including seven women, were killed in a vehicle pileup due to dense fog on the Rohtak-Rewari highway in Haryana on Monday, police said. At least 10 others were injured in the accident in which over 20 vehicles were involved....
Twenty-three ministers took oath in Rajastan on Monday. They included 13 cabinet ministers and 10 ministers of state. Governor Kalyan Singh administered the oath of office at the Raj Bhavan. The cabinet ministers are B.D. Kalla (Bikaner), Shanti Dhariwal (Kota North),...
It was sunny on Monday but most parts of Himachal Pradesh still experienced intense cold weather and Shimla shivered at 1.8 degrees Celsius, the season's lowest. The Met office forecast long sunny days with no snowfall on Christmas anywhere in the state....
A day ahead of the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, his successor Narendra Modi on Monday released a commemorative Rs 100 coin to honour the late leader, who passed away in August. Addressing a gathering at the Parliament House Annexe here, Modi said Vajpayee never compromised on the ideologies of the party...
Pollution in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) reached hazardous levels on Monday morning as minimum temperature slightly improved to 4.6 degrees Celsius, the Met said. Pollution levels depreciated to 'severe plus' category with many areas ...
Veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader and former West Bengal Commerce and Industries Minister Nirupam Sen died early on Monday, party said. Sen was 72. The former politburo member succumbed to multi-organ failure around 5 a.m. at a private hospital in the satellite township of Salt Lake....
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday expressed grief over the loss of life and damage caused by a tsunami that hit the coast Sunda Strait in Indonesia killing 281 people. "My deepest condolences to the families of victims who lost their lives in the...
One Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) trooper was killed and 34 injured in a road accident on the Jammu-Srinagar highway on Monday, police said. A private bus carrying the ITBP personnel from the valley to Jammu went out of the driver's control at Khuni Nallah in Ramban district and plunged into a deep ...
Bill Anders, one of the first men to orbit the Moon has that it is "stupid" to plan human missions to Mars. Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Anders, lunar module pilot of Apollo 8, the first human spaceflight to leave Earth's orbit, said sending crews to Mars was "almost ...
President Donald Trump has announced that Deputy Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan has been appointed acting Pentagon chief....
