News from India

Bhubaneswar: Three Maoists, including a woman belonging to the Kalinganagar Division, on Tuesday surrendered before police in Keonjhar. The three rebels laid down their arms before DIG (Western Range) Yashwant Jethwa at office of the Superintendent of Police in Keonjhar today. The gunning down of ultras during combing operations in the recent past and the […]

New Delhi: Lok Sabha today passed a bill which provides for apprenticeship training to non-engineering graduates and diploma holders besides others to expand the base of skilled workers in the country. The Apprentices (Amendment) Bill, 2014, which was opposed by trade unions, was passed by a voice vote, overruling demands by Congress for sending it […]

New Delhi: Parliament today cleared a Constitution amendment bill that will facilitate setting up of a commission for appointment of judges, replacing the 20-year-old collegium system which has been under severe criticism. A day after passage in the Lok Sabha, the Constitution Amendment Bill was cleared by the Rajya Sabha with 179 votes in favour […]

No child below the age of 12 years will be permitted to participate in forming human pyramids during the popular 'Dahi Handi' festival, the Supreme Court directed today while keeping on hold a Bombay High Court order which barred participation of children under 18

Raking up the Kashmir issue, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today said it is the "main source of tension" in Indo-Pak relations and sought its peaceful resolution to explore new ways to bolster bilateral ties

Inflation dipped to a five month low of 5.19 per cent in July mainly on account of decline in prices of some food articles, vegetables and protein rich items

Bhubaneswar: Body of a B. Tech (First Year) student was on Tuesday found near Bomikhal railway line. Police suspect it to be a case of suicide as texts written on a notepad recovered from his bag indicates that the deceased might have been involved in a love affair. He might have taken the extreme step […]

Battered and bruised in the last two matches, it will be a test of character for India's underperforming players as they go into the fifth and final Test against England here tomorrow, hoping to restore their pride and level the series

New Delhi: Rupert Murdoch-led News Corp`s strategy to operate under multiple brands may help the group shield its Indian businesses from any possible fallout of the crisis engulfing the group in the UK and US, experts say. The media conglomerate, which owns assets worth $66 billion (about Rs 3 lakh crore) across the world, has […]

Married actresses not getting good roles is a thing of past in Bollywood, according to Kareena Kapoor Khan, who says her career did not suffer any setback after she tied the knot Saif Ali Khan and she still gets to work with top stars like Aamir, Salman Khan and Ajay Devgn

New Delhi: India produced a record quantum of wheat and pulses in the 2010-11 crop year, ending June, at 85.93 million tonnes and 18.09 million tonnes, respectively, on the back of a good monsoon and higher support prices for farmers. According to fourth advance estimates prepared by the Agriculture Ministry, the country is estimated to […]

London: As India prepares to open the commercial bids for the USD 10.8 billion tender for 126 medium range multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA), Eurofighter hopes to make the country a partner in its Typhoon fighter jet programme which it says would be a game-changer. "We are offering India to become a full participant in the […]

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday appointed Rajiv Ranjan Verma, a Bihar cadre IPS officer, as the fourth chief of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Ishrat Jahan encounter, while coming down heavily on the Centre for adopting a "causal approach" in the case. The court appointed J V Ramudu, an Andhra Pradesh […]

New Delhi: Kishore Chandra Deo, who headed a Parliamentary Committee to probe the 2008 cash-for-vote scam, on Tuesday sought to justify his decision of not questioning Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh, whose close aide Sanjeev Saxena has been arrested, arguing there was no "prima facie evidence". Deo insisted that there was no evidence to show […]

New Delhi: Admitting that counter-terrorism was "first and foremost" on the minds after last week`s Mumbai bomb blasts, the US today pledged "full" support to India`s efforts to protect itself from terror attacks, and said it will press Pakistan as "hard" as it can on terror. After the second round of Indo-US Strategic Dialogue with […]