An Indian has hit the jackpot by winning 7 million dirhams in a Big Ticket raffle...
The Kilauea volcano, one of the world's most active, has erupted near a residential area on Hawaii's largest island, prompting a local state of emergency and an evacuation of 1,700 residents. The eruption on Wednesday affected Leilani Estates and the Hawaii County Civil Defence asked its residents as well as those residing in Lanipuna Gardens to...
Independent MLA Dinesh Rai has joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Madhya Pradesh in the presence of state BJP President Rakesh Singh. Rai, who represents Seoni constituency, joined the party on Thursday night. The MLA said: "Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has done a lot for my constituency. So I joined the party." ...
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "natural liar", and said he had insulted Bengaluru by referring to it as a garbage city. Gandhi's condemnation comes a day after Modi attacked the Congress party's government in Karnataka for destroying the cityscape. "Calling Bengaluru, the garden city and...
Palghar (Maharashtra), May 4 In a jolt to the BJP, family members of the late Lok Sabha member Chintaman Vanga from Palghar walked over to ally Shiv Sena, accusing the former of meting out "injustice". Jaishree, the widow of Vanga, the BJP MP who died on January 30 in New Delhi after a heart attack, along with her children Srinivas and Prafulla ca...
Interacting with Karnataka's BJP women cadres through his mobile app, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked them to popularise his government's schemes ahead of the May 12 Assembly polls. "We need to expose the hollow promises made by the Congress and urge the people of Karnataka to join the journey of development," Modi told the Bharatiy...
The weather office on Friday sounded a 72-hour alert till Monday here in Uttar Pradesh, Agra District Magistrate Gaurav Dayal said and issued a detailed advisory to manage any imminent disaster. This comes after a 132-kmph dust storm hit the city on the intervening night of Wednesday-Thursday bringing heavy showers and hailstorm that killed 44 people...
A civilian was injured in Pakistani shelling overnight on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district. Police said the Pakistani Army resorted to shelling and firing on the LoC in Tangdhar sector at 11 p.m. on Thursday. "Indian positions retaliated effectively. Intermittent shelling and firing exchanges continued till 4.30 a.m. o...
The US has warned China that there will be consequences for its growing militarisation in the South China Sea, the media reported. This was following reports of missiles being deployed to three of the country's outposts in the disputed region, CNN reported. "We're well aware of China's militarisation of the South China Sea. There will be near...
Bharatiya Janata Party legislator from the Jayanagar assembly segment, B.N. Vijaya Kumar, died here early on Friday, a party official said. He was 60....
