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Patna: In a bid to keep up another election promise, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has directed officials to provide free electricity connection to everyone in Bihar by November 2017. Providing free electricity connection to all the households was one of the seven promises Nitish Kumar made ahead of the assembly elections which his Grand Alliance […]

Dibrugarh: BJP president Amit Shah on Friday accused the Congress government in Assam of allowing illegal immigrants from Bangladesh to enter the north-eastern state for vote bank politics, which threatened national security. The Bharatiya Janata Party was the only party that did not compromise on national security for vote bank politics, Shah said while addressing […]

Nagpur: India rode on a superb performance from off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin to beat South Africa by 124 runs in the third Test and take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the four-match series at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium here on Friday. Resuming the third day at 32/2, South Africa were bowled out for 185 in […]

Russia have accepted the full suspension from athletics over widespread doping without requesting a hearing, the sport's world governing body IAAF has announced after a council meeting in Monaco

New Delhi: A discussion in the Lok Sabha on Thursday on the Constitution and its chief architect B.R. Ambedkar went on a different trajectory as Home Minister Rajnath Singh termed “secular” the most misused word and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi hit back, accusing the government of deliberately attacking “the principles that inspired the country for […]

Ankara: Turkey will not apologize to Russia over the downing of a warplane on the Syrian border, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. “Those who violated our airspace should apologize to us,” he said in an interview, Xinhua reported. Earlier on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Turkey has not apologized for the […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Maharashtra government to consider and decide, in two weeks, applications for licence by hoteliers for dance performances in beer bars and restaurants. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Prafulla C. Pant gave two weeks’ time as the court was told that the Maharashtra government […]

Guwahati/Shillong: In a case of mistaken identity, the army killed two civilians during a counter-insurgency operation in Meghalaya, a defence spokesperson said on Thursday. The killing triggered protests, as pressure groups and political parties demanded the immediate arrest of the army men involved in the incident. The incident occurred on Wednesday night in Kharkutta area […]

New Delhi: India is set to have more than half a billion (500 million) unique mobile subscribers, or actual individual subscribers, by 2015-end, thanks to affordable devices, easy tariff and digital literacy drives, a study by GSM telecom players global body GSMA said on Thursday. The report “The Mobile Economy: India 2015” said that 13 […]

Islamabad: Pakistan is fully capable of defending itself from any Indian aggression, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif asserted on Thursday. “The extremist mentality with which Modi soared to great heights, the same mentality will trigger his fall,” said Asif, according to a report by Radio Pakistan. He also said that if India exhibited good intentions and […]

New Delhi: India has added 2,311.88 MW of grid-connected power generation capacity from renewable energy sources like solar and wind till October of this financial year, against the full fiscal’s target of 4,460 MW, an official statement said on Thursday. A total of 827.22 MW of solar power generation capacity was added in this period, […]

New Delhi: Global professional services company Towers Watson on Thursday forecast an overall salary increase of 10.8 percent for Indian companies in 2016. According to Towers Watson ‘2015-16 Asia-Pacific Salary Budget Planning Report’, net salary increase in 2016 is expected to be marginally higher at 4.7 percent against 4.5 percent in 2015 by factoring inflation […]

Kolkata: Joining the growing clamour against intolerance, singer-musician and former Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman on Thursday said the backlash faced by Bollywood star Aamir Khan was proof of the intolerance in the country. “Neither Aamir nor his wife said they will leave the country. The backlash they are facing proves the point. The backlash […]

New Delhi: Chief Justice of India H.L.Dattu on Thursday said that the delay in disposal of cases and their pendency was the single most challenge that confronts country’s legal system and innovative ways have to be found out to address the situation. “If right to access justice is to remain meaningful, then it should be […]

Kolkata: Coming out in the open in support of Aaamir Khan, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said nobody had the right to ask the actor to go to Pakistan. “Whatever Aamir has said, whether it is correct or not, this is his personal right,” Banerjee said refering to the Bollywood hero’s controversial […]