India's Ambassador to China Gautam Bambawale on Tuesday met a top official of the Communist Party's key International Department and discussed ways to step up bilateral talks and visits. After the chill in their relationship following a 73-day military stand-off in the eastern sector of the border last year, both sides have been trying to ...
Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday slammed their former member Naresh Agarwal, who has now joined the BJP, for his comments on actress-turned-politician Jaya Bachman and demanded an apology from him. In a statement, Mayawati said that other than being in poor taste, the stateme...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday set deadline of 2025 to free India from tuberculosis (TB), five years ahead of the global deadline set by World Health Organisation (WHO). "The deadline to eradicate TB from the world has been set at 2030. But I declare that India would be free from tuberculosis five years ahead by 2025. The target is set," said Modi...
At least nine CRPF personnel were killed and two injured when Maoists blew up an anti-landmine vehicle of the 212 CRPF Battalion in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday, said a senior police official. The blast was followed by a heavy exchange of fire between the security forces and the Maoists in which the Maoists also suffered a se...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended the deadline for linking of various services with Aadhaar till it delivers its judgment on a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the biometrical identification scheme. Announcing the order, a five-judge constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, however said that this extension will ...
Business activities across Delhi came to a standstill as over seven lakh shops in 2,500 markets across the city shut on Tuesday to protest against the ongoing sealing drive by the three municipal corporations, a traders' body said. Traders also took out protest marches in various markets, including Connaught Place, Chandni Chowk...
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday approached the Supreme Court against...
The Lok Sabha stalemate continued for the seventh consecutive day on Tuesday...
The Telangana Assembly Speaker on Tuesday disqualified two senior Congress legislators...
NASA's acting chief Robert Lightfoot is set to retire at the end of April, even as US President Donald Trump's permanent choice to lead the space agency remains stuck in Congress, the media reported. Lightfoot, who started in 1989 at the Marshall Centre in Huntsville, Alabama, as a test engineer, has been the acting administrator since the ...
