Lucknow, Feb 21 : With polling just a day away, Lucknow is set to witness an interesting contest with first timers posing a major challenge to the veterans. Lucknow has...

Lucknow, Feb 21 : Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday held a roadshow in Lucknow for the party candidates. As her convoy meandered through the streets from the...

Jerusalem, Feb 21 : The Israeli Cabinet approved the appointment of the former general Gaby Portnoy as the chief of the National Cyber Directorate. A statement issued by Prime Minister...

Jaipur, Feb 21 : Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot will be present a separate Agriculture budget in the state Assembly on February 23, officials said here on Monday. This is...

Bengaluru, Feb 21 : Karnataka BJP Minister for Panchayat Raj and Rural Development, K.S.Eshwarappa on Monday while reacting to the murder of a Hindu activist in Shivamogga district, said that...

Jaipur, Feb 21 : Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each for kin of those killed after a car carrying a marriage party...

Dhaka, Feb 21 : The Bangladesh government will not extend its Covid-19 restrictions once they expire on Tuesday but mask mandates will remain as usual, Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam...

Chennai, Feb 21 : Tamil celebrities, including Rajinikanth, Ajith and several others, not voting in the February 19 urban local body elections has turned into a major point of debate...

Seoul, Feb 21 : South Korean ruling Democratic Party’s presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung is neck and neck with opposition People Power Party’s Yoon Suk-yeol with 43.7 per cent against 42.2...

New Delhi, Feb 21 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday condoled the loss of lives in a road accident in Rajasthan’s Kota. He also announced an ex-gratia of Rs...

Gaza, Feb 21 : Palestine’s Hamas has said that there has been no progress toward reaching a prisoner exchange deal with Israel. Zaher Jabarin, a member of Hamas’s politburo, said...

Washington, Feb 21 : White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced that President Joe Biden has “accepted in principle” a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Psaki’s confirmation late...

Lucknow, Feb 21 : Ban on rituals during Muharrum, crackdown on illegal slaughter houses that impacted sale of meat, police atrocities on anti-CAA protestors and now the hijab controversy have...

New Delhi, Feb 21 : Amid the ongoing row between the Governor and the state government over the pension for the personal staff members of the ministers, the BJP said...

Chennai, Feb 21 : Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has sought state government’s directive to link Aadhaar cards for new power connections. The decision, according to TANGEDCO officers,...

Valletta, Feb 21 : Malta will go to the polls on March 26, announced Prime Minister Robert Abela. He made the announcement on Sunday while addressing a party rally in...

Jerusalem, Feb 21 : Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that Iran may soon sign a new nuclear agreement with world powers but the new deal is “weaker” than the...

Hyderabad, Feb 21 : Telangana’s minister for information technology and industry K.T.Rama Rao has described the state as the most successful startup and said Telangana model of development can be...

Seoul, Feb 21 : South Korea’s Unification Ministry on Monday urged North Korea to return to dialogue amid speculation Pyongyang may resume major weapons tests following the end of the...

Seoul, Feb 21 : Six out of 10 South Koreans are positive about the relaxation of Covid-19 curbs on businesses, a poll revealed on Monday. In the survey by the...

Mainpuri (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 21 : A BJP worker was allegedly shot at and injured by Samajwadi Party workers during a clash at Avadh Nagar polling booth in Mainpuri city...

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 21 : A 54-year-old CPI(M) worker was hacked to death in the wee hours of Monday at Thalassery in Kannur, Left Democratic Front convenor A Vijayaraghavan said here....

Ayodhya, Feb 21 : For parties that vow not to field and support criminals, the Gosainganj Assembly seat in Ayodhya stares out in the face. The Samajwadi Party (SP) has...

Etawah, Feb 21 : When the entire Yadav clan turned out together to cast their votes in the third phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, some key members were...

Lucknow, Feb 21 : Samajwadi Party (SP) President Akhilesh Yadav has said that an insult to the bicycle was an insult to the nation. Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Lucknow, Feb 21 : Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav has said that the ruling BJP was set to be removed from power. He said the BJP was losing ground...

Dhaka, Feb 21 : The Bangladesh government has decided to make “Joy Bangla” the national slogan of the country.The decision was taken on Sunday during a Cabinet meeting chaired by...

New Delhi, Feb 20 : All Indian students in Ukraine and Indian nationals whose stay there is not deemed essential were on Sunday advised to leave the Eastern European country...

Chandigarh, Feb 20 : The overall voter turnout in Punjab on Sunday in a single-phase, multi-cornered contest for the 117-member Assembly seats was approximately 70 per cent, election officials said....

New Delhi, Feb 20 : The police in Nepal fired rubber bullets and tear gas as hundreds of people protested over a $500m US grant going before parliament, BBC reported....

New Delhi, Feb 20 : New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) Vice Chairman Satish Upadhyay on Sunday said that the department will implement 100 per cent Mechanical Sweeping in its prominent...

Chennai, Feb 20 : The Tamil Nadu State Election Commission (SEC) has ordered repolling in seven wards of the state on Monday, after the AIADMK complained of violence by DMK...

New Delhi, Feb 20 : Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) president Anil Chaudhary on Sunday accused Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of “misleading the people of Delhi with bundles of lies”....

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 20 : The ruling CPM-led LDF and the Congress-led Opposition UDF are in unison over the pension for the personal staff members of the ministers. Currently in Kerala,...

New Delhi, Feb 20 : The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday restored the maximum number of Star Campaigners for ongoing and future elections as the number of Covid-19...

Chandigarh, Feb 20 : Haryana witnessed a significant growth in agriculture with the adoption of latest technologies, including solar irrigation pumps, the state government said on Sunday. Under the leadership...

Bhubaneswar, Feb 20 : Amid some stray incidents of violence, the third phase Panchayat polls in Odisha passed off peacefully on Sunday with 71 per cent voting. The election was...

New Delhi/Chandigarh, Feb 20 : The voters in Punjab on Sunday said that the political party they voted for on Sunday and if it comes to power, must address the...

Gurugram, Feb 20 : A two-day seminar, aimed at addressing the problems of group housing societies and licence colonies, will be organised in Gurugram on February 25-26, the district administration...

New Delhi, Feb 20 : German airline Lufthansa has said it will suspend flights to Ukraine capital Kyiv from Monday amid growing fears of a Russian invasion, BBC reported. The...

By Quaid NajmiMumbai, Feb 20 : Amid a bonhomie of hugs and handshakes, Chief Ministers of Maharashtra and Telangana – Uddhav Thackeray and K.Chandrashekar Rao, respectively – said, “winds of...

New Delhi, Feb 20 : The Ukrainian defence ministry has reported further ceasefire violations in the east, after a day of heavy weapons fire Saturday, CNN reported. The ministry said...

New Delhi, Feb 20 : Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Sunday inaugurated two new Departments and two new Research Centres at International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) in Deonar,...

Itanagar, Feb 20 : Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Arunachal Pradesh counterpart Pema Khandu on Sunday said that they would start the process from April to resolve...

Chandigarh, Feb 20 : Sixty-three per cent of over 2.14 crore voters in Punjab turned out on Sunday till 5 p.m.to elect 117 members of the Assembly amid minor skirmishes...

New Delhi, Feb 20 : Russian armoured tanks painted with a letter ‘Z’ and huge convoys are moving towards the Ukraine border – as the eastern region is rocked by...

Tulsipur (UP), Feb 20 : Zeba Rizwan, a pass out from Jamia Millia Islamia in Mass Communication, is contesting as independent from Tulsipur of Uttar Pradesh after being denied ticket...

New Delhi/Saifai, Feb 20 : Lashing out at the Yogi Adityanath government and the BJP over the “deteriorating” law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party (SP) Chief...

Mumbai, Feb 20 : Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his Telangana counterpart K.Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday met here and decided to work together for an anti-BJP front. Thackeray assured...

New Delhi, Feb 20 : The voting percentage on Sunday till 5 p.m.in the third phase Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh was 57.58 per cent and 63.44 per cent in...

New Delhi, Feb 20 : President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday said that various religious traditions and practices are prevalent across the country but there is only one belief and...

Amethi, Feb 20 : Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Sunday attacked his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath, saying that the latter “preaches about promoting harmony, but spreads hatred instead”....

Patna, Feb 20 : Suresh Sharma, a former Bihar cabinet Minister and BJP leader, on Sunday levelled corruption charges against Cabinet minister Ram Surat Rai. Rai is the state Land...

Chennai, Feb 20 : The Sri Lankan Navy has arrested six Indian fishermen and seized their boat allegedly for poaching in country’s territorial waters. The arrest was made on Saturday...

New Delhi/Karhal, Feb 20 : Union Minister and BJP candidate from Karhal assembly constituency S.P.Singh Baghel on Sunday said that the people of Karhal have made BJP’s contest easy here....

Bengaluru, Feb 20 : Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Sunday that an ambitious plan has been drafted to introduce ‘Tunga Aarti’ on the banks of Tungabhadra River at...

New Delhi, Feb 20 : The overall voting percentage in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh was 49.31 per cent till 3 p.m., the Election Commission of India (ECI) said. As per...

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 20 : Chief coordinator of Twenty Twenty, a political outfit in Kerala, and known industrialist, Sabu M.Jacob has called for a CBI probe into the death of Deepu,...

Hardoi (UP), Feb 20 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Sunday mounted a blistering attack on the Samajwadi Party while addressing a rally in Hardoi district, where he said that...

Jerusalem, Feb 20 : Israel’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Oded Forer had to cancel his planned trip to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), after he tested positive for...

Canberra, Feb 20 : Australia reported more than 15,000 new Covid-19 cases and 33 deaths on Sunday, one day before the country’s borders reopen to fully vaccinated tourists almost after...

Seoul, Feb 20 : South Korea has issued an emergency warning to urge the last remaining citizens to quickly leave Ukraine due to escalating military tension along the eastern border...

New Delhi, Feb 20 : UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin will keep waging war on neighbouring countries if he is allowed to invade...

Seoul, Feb 20 : South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s approval rating fell 0.8 percentage points to 42.4 per cent last week, a new poll revealed on Sunday. The negative assessment...

New Delhi/Saifai, Feb 20 : Rajya Sabha member and senior Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav on Sunday said that SP chief Akhilesh Yadav will win his election by over...

Gurugram, Feb 20 : Hundreds of residents of Chintels Paradiso apartments on Sunday staged demonstrations and held a protest march demanding a CBI probe into the high-rise roof collapse in...

By Santosh Kumar PathakKarhal/Mainpuri, Feb 20 : With polling underway in 59 Assembly constituencies across 16 districts of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, political observers across the country keep a hawk’s...

New Delhi, Feb 20 : The overall voting percentage in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh was 34.99 per cent till 1 p.m., the Election Commission of India (ECI) said. As per...

Brasilia, Feb 20 : The death toll from landslides and floods that occurred last week in the city of Petropolis in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state has increased to 146,...

Munich, Feb 20 : German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has warned against guessing or assuming Russia’s decisions on Ukraine, after the US warned of an imminent invasion. “We do not...

Sanaa, Feb 20 : Yemen’s Houthi group launched an explosive-laden drone strike against a school in the country’s northern oil-rich province of Marib, a government official said. “Several students were...

Nicosia, Feb 20 : Cyprus’ Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said that his country’s policies towards Turkey have shifted in recent weeks away from confrontation to confidence-building measures. Kasoulides said the...

New Delhi, Feb 20 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that his government is working with full force to make Arunachal a major gateway to East Asia. Speaking...

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 20 : In a case of open rebellion, a group of BJP workers closed the Kasargod district committee office of the party following a dispute with the leadership...

Bhubaneswar, Feb 20 : An average 45 per cent voter turnout was recorded till 12 p.m.in the third phase of Panchayat elections underway in 171 Zilla Parishad zones of Odisha,...

Ljubljana, Feb 20 : Slovenia has started to ease Covid-19 restrictions as the number of new daily cases had been gradually falling over the past weeks. From Saturday, it has...

Kanpur, Feb 20 : Kanpur Mayor Pramila Pandey has been booked for allegedly violating the model code of conduct enforced by the Election Commission (EC) after she shared photos while...

Hyderabad, Feb 20 : Telangana Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao Sunday embarked for Mumbai to meet his Maharashtra counterpart Uddhav Thackeray.Rao, popularly known as KCR, has recently intensified efforts to consolidate...

New Delhi, Feb 20 : Evidence suggests that Russia is planning “the biggest war in Europe since 1945”, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the BBC. “All the signs are...

Sanaa, Feb 20 : At least 156 Houthi militants were killed in battles with the Yemen government army in the past two days in the northern province of Hajjah, military...

Moscow, Feb 20 : Russia’s Investigative Committee said that it has initiated a criminal case against an attempted murder after “Ukrainian paramilitaries” shelled the border area of the Rostov region....

New Delhi/Saifai, Feb 20 : The Samajwadi Party candidate from Jaswant Nagar, Shivpal Yadav on Sunday said that their party was sure to win the Uttar Pradesh elections with a...

Chandigarh, Feb 20 : Approximately 4.80 per cent polling across 117 Assembly constituencies was registered in the first one hour in Punjab that began on Sunday morning with Chief Minister...

Chennai, Feb 20 : AIADMK Coordinator and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O.Panneerselvam has written to External Affairs Minister S.Jaishankar to intervene in the issue of the participation of Indian...

Chandigarh, Feb 20 : Conjoined twins Sohna and Mohna cast their first votes on Sunday in Amritsar for the Assembly polls in Punjab as two separate voters, elections officials said....

New Delhi, Feb 20 : The voting percentage on Sunday till 9 a.m.in the third phase Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh was 8.15 per cent and 4.80 per cent in...

Mogadishu, Feb 20 : At least 10 people were killed and 15 others injured in a suicide bombing in the Somalian town of Beledweyne, the police said. The police said...

By Arun LakshmanChennai, Feb 20 : The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) has always been embroiled in controversy and several social and political struggles have taken place in the power...

Munich, Feb 20 : Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has warned the West against challenging Tehran’s red lines in the Vienna talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal,....

Chennai, Feb 20 : Tamil Nadu recorded 61 per cent voting in the urban local body polls to elect more than 12,500 members to the 640 urban local bodies. Chennai...

By Saiyed Moziz Imam ZaidiNew Delhi, Feb 20 : The outcome of the five state elections will have an impact on the Presidential poll and will also bring some change...

By Shashi BhushanNew Delhi, Feb 20 : Keeping in mind that forming the government in Punjab may be difficult, the BJP is using this assembly election as a platform to...

Seoul, Feb 20 : The Seoul city government said on Sunday that it will launch a 180 billion won ($150 million) project to link parks and other green spaces with...

New Delhi, Feb 20 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday greeted the people of Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram on their Statehood Day. Wishing people of Arunachal Pradesh, Prime Minister...

Munich, Feb 20 : German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that diplomatic channels were still the means to solve the Ukrainian problem but warned against “being naive”. He made the remarks...

Lucknow, Feb 20 : Samajwadi Party president, Akhilesh Yadav, has strongly denied any links with any of the convicts in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts which claimed 56 lives and...

Kasganj, Feb 20 : Gopal Agarwal, a businessman in Uttar Pradesh’s Kasganj, has put up posters naming and shaming the local BJP MLA from Patiyali, Mamtesh Shakya, accusing him of...

By Sujit ChakrabortyImphal, Feb 20 : Women are nearly 52 per cent of the total of 20,48,169 electorates eligible to cast their votes in the two phases Manipur assembly elections,...

New Delhi, Feb 20 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday appealed to the people to vote in large numbers in the Assembly polls.Polling is underway in Punjab and third...

Moscow, Feb 20 : Under the leadership of President Vladimir Putin, Russia’s strategic deterrence forces conducted large-scale drills as the Ukrainian crisis has flared up. Putin on Saturday watched the...

Chandigarh, Feb 20 : Congress chief ministerial candidate Charanjit Singh Channi on Sunday appealed to the electorates to cast their vote for a progressive change. A confident Channi told the...

Paris, Feb 20 : France on Saturday urged all its citizens who are currently in Ukraine for non-essential stays to leave the country. French nationals in Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk...

Lucknow, Feb 20 : Samajwadi Party veteran and leader of the opposition in the state legislative council, Ahmed Hasan, passed away after prolonged illness on Saturday.Hours later, his ailing wife,...

Chandigarh, Feb 20 : Polling across 117 Assembly constituencies began on Sunday morning in Punjab that is witnessing a multi-cornered contest with more than 2.14 crore voters exercising their franchise...

Berlin, Feb 20 : The German government on Saturday urged its citizens to leave Ukraine immediately, while Lufthansa plans to partially suspend flights to and from Ukraine from Monday. “A...

Lucknow, Feb 20 : The third phase of polling in 59 assembly constituencies, spread across 16 districts in Uttar Pradesh began here on Sunday morning. Over 2.15 crore people will...

Tehran, Feb 20 : Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said Saturday that any possible agreement between Iran and world powers in the Austrian capital of Vienna must include removal of anti-Iran...

Lucknow, Feb 20 : The polling in 59 assembly constituencies in 16 districts for the third phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections began on Sunday at 7 a.m., officials said....

By Ashis RayLondon, Feb 20 : In a prickly interaction with a moderator, S Jaishankar, Indian External Affairs Minister, remarked in a panel discussion at the annual Munich Security Conference...

Imphal, Feb 20 : Condemning the attack on the father of one of his party’s candidates, Meghalaya Chief Minister and NPP President Conrad K.Sangma on Saturday urged the Election Commission...

Hyderabad, Feb 19 : The Election Commission of India on Saturday ordered the Chief Electoral Officer of Telangana to register FIR against Telangana’s BJP MLA T.Raja Singh for threatening Uttar...

Lucknow, Feb 19 : Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Friday campaigned in Lucknow for Congress candidates in Lucknow West, Lucknow Cantt., Lucknow Central and Sarojini Nagar, which will go...

New Delhi, Feb 19 : The Centre on Saturday urged all startups to upscale the value chain for millets by creating an inclusive framework for taking the producing communities along....

New Delhi, Feb 19 : The Election Commission on Saturday banned Telangana BJP MLA T.Raja Singh from campaigning in UP assembly election for 72 hours.The 72-hour ban began from 6...

Chandigarh, Feb 19 : A day ahead of Assembly elections in Punjab, Balbir Singh Sidhu, former Cabinet minister and Congress candidate from Mohali, on Saturday termed the surprise check at...

New Delhi, Feb 19 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday expressed happiness over India getting chosen as the host for the 2023 International Olympic Committee (IOC) session. With the...

Bengaluru, Feb 19 : The Karnataka Congress will continue the round the clock agitation by spening another night in the state assembly on Saturday demanding dismissal of Minister for Rural...

By Ashis RayLondon, Feb 19 : Making a maiden appearance on one of the multilateral big stages, the annual Munich Security Conference (MSC), the half-Indian-origin Vice President of the United...

Agartala, Feb 19 : Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said on Saturday that operations of passenger aircraft from Agartala airport to two important Bangladesh cities — Dhaka and Chittagong...

New Delhi, Feb 19 : The Chhattisgarh government on Saturday claimed that only 2,12,162 metric tonnes of chemical fertilizers have been supplied to the state by the Centre for the...

Gurugram, Feb 19 : Days after multiple ceilings of a residential condominium — Chintels Paradiso — collapsed, killing two people, a forensic team of the Haryana police on Saturday collected...

Bhubaneswar, Feb 19 : The Odisha police have arrested 62 persons in connection with poll disruption incidents during the first two phases of Panchayat elections in the state, police said...

Chennai/New Delhi, Feb 19 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi has virtually inaugurated the drone manufacturing facilities of Garuda Aerospace at Manesar in Gurugram and in Chennai, said a top company...

New Delhi, Feb 19 : Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ameer Sirajul Haq has said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government led by Imran Khan has practically proved to be a disastrous...

Kolkata, Feb 19 : West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee again ran into confrontation when the former returned the latter’s recommendation to convene an assembly session...

New Delhi, Feb 19 : The Centre has provided ‘Y’ category VIP security to former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and poet Kumar Vishwas, government sources said here on Saturday....

Panaji, Feb 19 : The Congress party in Goa on Saturday accused ministers in the outgoing BJP-led coalition government of trying to poach its candidates by making them offers ahead...

Hyderabad, Feb 19 : Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) working president T.Jayaprakash Reddy on Saturday decided to quit the party, taking a U-turn hours after declaring that he will stay...

Amaravati, Feb 19 : Days after being shunted out as the Director General of Police, D.Gautam Sawang has been appointed as the Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission...

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 19 : Kerala’s first woman IPS officer, R.Sreelekha, who retired on Saturday, said that women police officers in the state face a tough time while on duty. Sreelekha...

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 19 : A day after Swapna Suresh, a prime accused in the infamous gold smuggling case joined HRDS India, an RSS backed NGO, things turned turtle after a...

By Vivek TripathiLucknow, Feb 19 : In the ongoing Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is hopeful of getting votes from the Muslim community and is busy...

Chandigarh, Feb 19 : Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday said keeping in mind the vision of modern Haryana, this time the state Budget will give priority to promises...

BY VISHAL GULATIChandigarh, Feb 19 : Punjab is all set for multi-cornered contest with 2.14 crore electorates, including 1.02 crore women, will cast votes on Sunday for the 117-member Assembly.The...

Bhopal, Feb 19 : All waste dumping sites in the country will be converted into green zones in the next two-three years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said while digitally inaugurating...

Gonda (UP), Feb 19 : In high octane battle for UP, the BJP has been targeting Congress over the statement of the Punjab Chief Minister who said that ‘Bhaiye from...

Hyderabad, Feb 19 : Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) working president T.Jayaprakash Reddy on Saturday dropped his plans to quit the party. He told reporters that for now he will...

New Delhi, Feb 19 : Ukraine’s Russian-backed breakaway eastern territories have ordered military mobilisations amid escalation in fighting, BBC reported. Men of fighting age in the self-declared people’s republics of...

Bhubaneswar, Feb 19 : President Ram Nath Kovind, along with his wife Savita Kovind, arrived here this afternoon on a two-day Odisha visit. A special plane carrying him landed at...

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 19 : Kerala has set an ambitious target of having over 15,000 startups and 200,000 jobs in emerging technologies in five years, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said here...

Bengaluru, Feb 19 : Principal of a Junior College in Karnataka’s Madikeri districton Saturday lodged a police complaint against a man for issuing a life threat after he sent back...

Mankapur (UP) Feb 19 : Campaigning for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said India is capable of giving befitting reply to those who dare...

New Delhi, Feb 19 : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday inaugurated 12,430 new smart classrooms in 240 government schools of the national capital at Rajkiya Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya...

New Delhi, Feb 19 : The Pakistan Prime Ministers Office shared pictures from the luncheon hosted by Imran Khan in honour of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who was on his...

United Nations, Feb 19 : The last UN staff member detained by authorities in Ethiopia is now free, a spokesman for the world body said. “This is an issue that...

Canberra, Feb 19 : Thousands of Australians on Saturday gathered in the Northern Territory (NT) to mark the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Darwin carried out by 242 Japanese...

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 19 : Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Saturday said he will raise the issue of recruitment by state cabinet ministers of personal staff members, who become eligible...

New Delhi, Feb 19 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated Asia’s biggest Bio-CNG plant in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore via video conferencing. Addressing the event, PM Modi said that...

Bengaluru, Feb 19 : Karnataka Congress chief D.K.Shivakumar on Saturday urged the ruling BJP to issue a government notification and start land acquisition for the Mekedatu project, which has become...

United Nations, Feb 19 : UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths has allocated $2.5 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund to ramp up the humanitarian response to tropical cyclone...

Los Angeles, Feb 19 : The Port of Los Angeles (POLA) processed 865,595 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) last month, a 3.6-per cent increase compared to last year, marking the busiest...

Bhubaneswar, Feb 19 : The State Election Commission (SEC), Odisha has made elaborate arrangements for the third phase of Panchayat election to be held on Sunday. As many as 171...

Panaji, Feb 19 : Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj played a big role in the preservation of the Hindu culture in Goa, and the Maratha king was the first to kickstart the...

By Vivek TripathiLucknow, Feb 19 : Launching a scathing attack on BJP turncoats, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said the small-time leaders who ditched the saffron party are now...

UNited Nations, Feb 19 : The top UN envoy for Haiti has called for efforts to tackle gang violence in the Caribbean nation. Gang violence continues to plunge major urban...

Bengaluru, Feb 19 : Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has described Maratha warrior Chatrapati Shivaji as a symbol of India’s self-respect. Participating in the birth anniversary celebrations of Shivaji, organised...

Tunis, Feb 19 : Tunisian President Kais Saied has decided to extend the state of emergency imposed across the country until the end of 2022. “President Saied decided to extend...

Moscow, Feb 19 : Russia’s GDP rose 4.7 per cent in 2021, according to preliminary data provided by the country’s Federal Statistics Service. The GDP increase was linked to “a...

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 19 : With schools in Kerala all set to receive students in full strengths starting Monday, State Education Minister V.Sivankutty on Saturday inaugurated the state-level cleaning programme at...

Jakarta, Feb 19 : G20 finance leaders have agreed on realising a well calibrated, well planned, well communicated normalisation in the monetary policy to minimize the impacts of the US...

Chennai, Feb 19 : Anti-corruption NGO Arappor Iyakkam, Convenor Jayaram Venkatesan on Saturday registered his unwillingness to vote in the Tamil Nadu urban local body poll here. He was protesting...

Washington, Feb 19 : Kim Potter, a former police officer in the US state of Minnesota who fatally shot African-American man Daunte Wright last year, has been sentenced to two...

New Delhi, Feb 19 : The National Green Tribunal has directed the joint Committee of Central Pollution Control Board and Regional Officer of the State Pollution Control Board to furnish...

Chennai, Feb 19 : Actor-politician Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) has demanded the cancellation of the urban local body elections at a booth in Keeranur Municipality as the poster...

New Delhi, Feb 19 : In a special drive aimed at helping farmers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday flagged off 100 kisan drones across different cities and towns for...

Washington, Feb 19 : Capitol Police announced hat they are planning for extra security ahead of US President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union (SOTU) address scheduled for March...

Kochi, Feb 19 : Twenty20, a local political party, on Saturday demanded the arrest of CPI(M) legislator P.V.Sreenijin in connection with the assault on its 38-year-old member leading to his...

Seoul, Feb 19 : South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party (DP) on Saturday unilaterally passed a 14 trillion won ($11 billion) extra budget bill aimed at supporting small businesses hit by...

New Delhi, Feb 19 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Vice President M.Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday paid tributes to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj on his birth anniversary. Paying homage to the...

Seoul, Feb 19 : North Korea’s plutonium-producing nuclear reactor appears to be in operation, two US monitoring websites have said, citing recent satellite imagery that observed snowmelt at the facility....

Chennai, Feb 19 : Voting for the Tamil Nadu Urban local body polls got underway on Saturday morning amid tight security and strict adherence to Covid-19 protocols. Tamil Super Star...

Hyderabad, Feb 19 : Telangana’s minister for Information Technology and Industries K.T.Rama Rao will address Harvard India Conference 2022. The minister has received an invitation to take part in the...

Sanaa, Feb 19 : A mediation conducted by local tribal figures has failed to release five UN staffers reportedly kidnapped in Yemen’s turbulent southern province of Abyan, a government official...

Tokyo, Feb 19 : The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that it will publish a report in April detailing the findings of its mission to review the Japanese government’s...

Ottawa, Feb 19 : Ottawa Police have arrested and laid charges against two organisers of the “Freedom Convoy” truckers’ protest which has occupied the Canadian capital city’s downtown for three...

Munich, Feb 19 : The 58th edition of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) has kick-started with a theme focusing on “unlearning helplessness” against the backdrop of the Russia-Ukraine crisis. There...

Tehran, Feb 19 : Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that the ongoing talks between his country and the world powers on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal in Vienna...

Athens, Feb 19 : Eleven people were reported missing, while a rescue operation was underway for two persons trapped on a ferry that caught fire off Corfu island in western...

London, Feb 19 : Seen as one of the worst storms in three decades, Eunice has brought record high wind to the UK, killing three people while causing massive power...

Jammu, Feb 19 : The city of temples will soon have Integrated Command and Control Centre, Intelligent Traffic Management System and web GIS based e-bill pay for Civic Services under...

Amsterdam, Feb 19 : Storm Eunice led to the deaths of three people in the Netherlands, all of whom were killed by falling trees in the Amsterdam region. Two people...

Los Angeles, Feb 19 : California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced a new package of meaningful gun safety legislation, which includes residents to sue the gun industry for the harm...

Brasilia, Feb 19 : The number of fatalities due to the landslides and floods in Petropolis, a town in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state, has increased 130, according to local...

Bamako, Feb 19 : The Malian government has called on France to immediately withdraw the Barkhane and Takuba forces from the national territory under the supervision of the Malian authorities,...

Itanagar, Feb 19 : Arunachal Pradesh was given statehood a bit earlier, and could have remained a Union Territory for a few more years, Chief Minister Pema Khandu said on...

Moscow, Feb 19 : Kiev authorities have to hold dialogue with representatives from Donbas to restore peace in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a briefing following talks with...

New Delhi, Feb 18 : The Centre is set to launch a doorstep distribution drive for the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Beema Yojana (PMFBY) that entered its seventh year on Friday....

New Delhi, Feb 18 : Union Minister of State for Science & Technology, Jitendra Singh, said on Friday that India is emerging as the world’s preferred startup destination due to...

Imphal, Feb 18 : A local court in Manipur has summoned state BJP President to appear before it on February 24 after the former state unit chief spokesperson filed a...

New Delhi, Feb 18 : Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday assured Punjab Chief Minister Charanjeet Singh Channi that he would “personally” look into the allegations levelled against Aam...

Bhubaneswar, Feb 18 : Barring few incidents, the second phase of panchayat elections was completed smoothly in Odisha with a turnout of approximately 71 per cent, an official said here...

Jaipur, Feb 18 : Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday approved financial assistance of Rs 10 lakh from the CM’s Relief Fund for the treatment of renowned archer of...

New Delhi, Feb 18 : Buoyed by late but steady Kharif onion arrivals that is expected to remain till Rabi arrival from March 2022, the all-India average retail price of...

New Delhi, Feb 18 : Chamba in Himachal Pradesh on Friday became the 100th ‘Har Ghar Jal’ district.It also became the fifth aspirational district to become Har Ghar Jal.The others...

Bengaluru, Feb 18 : The popular tourist destination of Nandi Hills on Bengaluru’s outskirts is set to get its own ropeway. The state Cabinet, which met on Thursday, has given...

Chennai, Feb 18 : Tamil Nadu Water Resources Minister Duraimurugan said on Friday that the state would oppose Kerala’s attempts to build a new dam across the Periyar river. In...

Mumbai, Feb 18 : Amid delays plaguing the prestigious Ahmedabad-Mumbai Bullet train project, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that it is a very important infra project for India...

Bengaluru, Feb 18 : The Karnataka High Court bench, hearing petitions on hijab row, on Friday directed the state government to see to it that its interim order is not...

Panaji, Feb 18 : The Congress on Friday alleged that nearly 850 Goa Police personnel, who have been posted for election duties in Uttar Pradesh, have been unable to vote...

Bhubaneswar, Feb 18 : Rubbishing the rumours spread about his health condition, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday said he is in perfect health and very happy. The Chief...