In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh said that while the highest number of 12,828 Indian workers died in Saudi Arabia during the period, 7,877 such workers died in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), 2,932 in Kuwait, 2,564 in Oman, 1,301 in Qatar and 1,021 in Bahrain....
Bhavin Patel was arrested at the Newark Liberty International Airport last week and was charged on Monday with one count of conspiracy and six counts of smuggling foreign nationals into the US for private financial gain, the US Attorney's Office for New Jersey said in a statement. ...
Who will be Rajasthan's new Congress Chief Minister? The question remained unanswered on Wednesday as the first round of meeting of newly elected MLAs failed to decide on a leader. Both former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and state Congress President Sachin ...
Taking moral responsibility for the defeat in the Madhya Pradesh assembly polls, outgoing Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday said that the BJP will now play the role of a "vigilant and constructive opposition". He said that he did his best to get Madhya Pradesh out of the "pathetic ...
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will meet his fate the way Prime Minister Narendra Modi did in the just-concluded assembly elections, sufering at the hands of the Congress in three states, Ramesh Chennithala said on Wednesday. "Modi suffered a debacle because the people of those states gave it back to him...
A total of 500 Indian fishermen are lodged in various jails in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the government said on Wednesday. In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh said that while 482 Indian fishermen were lodged in Pakistani ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday extended till December 31 the deadline for filing claims and objection by around 40 lakh people who were left out of Assam's draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman said ...
The Congress recorded its best-ever performance against the BJP since the disastrous 2014 Lok Sabha polls capturing power in the three Hindi heartland states and reviving its hopes in the next general elections. But the outcome has also sent signals that defeating the BJP nationally may not ...
British Prime Minister Theresa May will face a vote of no confidence in her leadership on Wednesday. Conservative MPs will vote between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., reports the BBC. The challenge to May's position comes after the required 48 letters calling for ...
Two newly-elected Lok Sabha members took oath on Wednesday ahead of a brief adjournment of the House after the Congress and Telugu Desam Party raised various issues which the Speaker refused to entertain. Soon after the House met, V.S. Ugrappa from Bellary and L.R. Shivarama Gowda from ...
