Making smart use of his NaMo mobile app once again, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday wooed Karnataka farmers to vote for the BJP in the May 12 state Assembly elections. Addressing cadres of the party's state farmers' cells (Kisan Morcha Karyakartas) through his NaMo app, Modi listed the various pro-farmer schemes initiated by the...
A Special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (Mcoca) Court on Wednesday found mafia don Rajendra S. Nikhalje, alias Chhota Rajan, guilty of the sensational murder case of journalist J. Dey in June 2011. Co-accused journalist Jigna Vora who was charged with conspiracy has, however, been acquitted by Special Judge Sameer Adkar, Specia...
The leaders of Pakistan's Shia Hazara community on Wednesday agreed to call off their protest over a recent spate of targeted killings in Quetta city following a meeting with Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa. Bajwa arrived in the city late Tuesday night and held a meeting with representatives of the Hazara community t...
Seven US states led by Texas has sued President Donald Trump's administration in an attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme, the media reported. The lawsuit - joined by Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina and West Virginia - on Tuesday asserted that the former Obama administration overst...
The Pentagon has missed a deadline set by President Donald Trump to come up with new policies regarding detainees captured on the battlefield and the transfer of those individuals to Guantanamo Bay, according to a US defence official. "The Department of Defence is in the final stages of providing a recommendation to the White House on policies rega...
Donald Trump's former doctor has said that he felt "raped, frightened and sad" after a top White House aide conducted a "raid" on his New York City offices and took the US President's health records last year, according to a new report. Harold Bornstein told NBC News on Tuesday that the "raid" was conducted by Trump's longtime personal ...
The UN nuclear agency has reiterated that no evidence was found in Iran relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device after 2009. "The same report stated that the Agency had no credible indications of activities in Iran relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device after 2009," said the International Atomic Energy Ag...
Chawla's courage and passion continue to serve as an inspiration for millions of American girls who dream of one day becoming astronauts," Trump said on Monday in a proclamation honouring Americans of Asian and Pacific Islands descent....
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday approved formation of coordination and monitoring committees for Punjab Congress with state Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, AICC in-charge of state Asha Kumari and state unit chief Sunil Jakhar in both the committees....
RJD chief Lalu Prasad was shifted to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) here on Tuesday, a day after he was discharged from AIIMS in New Delhi where he was being treated for heart and kidney related ailments....
