Much is at stake at Sunday's by-elections to three Bihar seats -- one Lok Sabha and two assembly seats -- for both ruling BJP-led NDA and opposition Grand Alliance comprising RJD, Congress and HAM-S, barely a year ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls....
Google has rolled out a feature in Maps that will turn any ride into a fun trip as users can now include a Mario Kart on the navigation interface while using the app. Munish Dabas, User Experience (UX) Engineer at Google Maps, said the company has collaborated with the team at Japanese video game company Nintendo "to let Mario accompany you on all of your dri...
India and France on Saturday agreed to work together in the Indian Ocean region, strengthen defence cooperation and add new momentum to the fight against terrorism as the two sides signed 14 agreements, including in the areas of space cooperation and high speed railways, following bilateral talks headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
A Chetak helicopter of the Indian Coast Guard crashlanded near Mumbai on Saturday, an official said adding that all the crew members were safe, though one pilot sustained minor injuries. The helicopter was on a routine patrol off the coast south of Mumbai when it crash-landed six nautical miles north of Murud, near Alibaug, at around 2.50 p.m. on...
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday took everyone by surprise with his reply when he was asked how he would have rolled out demonetisation had he been in the government. His reply was: "If I was the Prime Minister, and someone had given me a file with demonetisation written on it, I would have thrown it in the dustbin."...
Chennai, March 10 Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Saturday asserted that the central government has to set up the Cauvery Management Board and Caurvery Water Regulatory Committee in line with the apex court's order. In a statement here, Palaniswami said officials from the state clearly conveyed this aspect at a meeting calle...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called for fine tuning India's development model for delivering progress at the grassroots and said growth of 115 "aspirational districts" will bring a rapid transformation in country's ranking in the Human Development Index (HDI). Inaugurating the National Legislators Conference in the Central Hall of...
The Congress on Saturday announced its support for the candidature of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) nominee Bhim Rao Ambedkar for the Rajya Seat from Uttar Pradesh, polling for which will be held on March 23. The decision was announced by the leader of the Congress legislature party in the state assembly, Ajay Kumar 'Lallu', after a meeting with the...
On expected lines, the parliamentary board of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) that met here on Saturday gave its nod to M.P. Veerendra Kumar to file his nomination papers for the vacant Rajya Sabha seat from Kerala. The 80-year-old media baron will file his nominations on March 12 and the elections will be held in the Kerala assembly on March ...
On the last day of campaigning, the CPI-M-led Left Front on Saturday withdrew its candidate from the Charilam assembly constituency claiming "extremely terrible situation" in the tribal dominated areas of Tripura "due to massive reign of terror" by the BJP. The move comes after the poll authorities "remained silent" over the Left's request for p...
