Varanasi, Feb 6 : Jailed mafia don Brijesh Singh is ready to seek re-election as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Parishad by contesting the upcoming elections through local...

By Saibal GuptaKolkata, Feb 6 : Recently West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee directed all the departments to cut down unnecessary expenditure beyond the approved budget and not to take...

Panaji, Feb 6 : For all the chaos caused by the new-found resurgence of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ahead of the Assembly polls in...

Lucknow, Feb 6 : The Republican Party of India (RPI) will not contest Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, but will support the BJP on all seats. RPI chief and Union minister...

By Amresh SrivastavaNew Delhi, Feb 6 : The rising number of mosques and madarsas in the last three years along the Indo-Nepal border adjoining Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal...

Varanasi, Feb 6 : Ajay Rai, the Congress candidate from Pindra Assembly constituency in Varanasi, has been booked for sedition and for allegedly spreading hatred against Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

New Delhi, Feb 6 : Union Minister Piyush Goyal said on Saturday that the transportation of food grains through waterways will soon start from Patna to Pandu in Guwahati, ensuring...

New Delhi, Feb 6 : Meghalaya’s West Jaintia Hills witnessed the first-of-its-kind fly-off event to demonstrate the use of drone/UAV technology for payload delivery that could serve as a model...

Addis Ababa, Feb 6 : The 35th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly kicked off in Addis Ababa, as African leaders met physically for the first time since...

Tehran, Feb 6 : Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian has said Iran has made it clear to the American side, through its intermediaries, that they must show their “good...

Ankara, Feb 6 : Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he has tested positive for Covid-19. Erdogan on Saturday tweeted that he was infected by the Omicron variant of...

Tehran, Feb 6 : The US sanction waiver on Iran is “insufficient” to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has said. Iran is waiting for...

Faizabad (Afghanistan), Feb 6 : A total of 60 Afghan cadets after receiving training were commissioned to the police force in Afghanistan’s northern Badakhshan province, Maazudin Ahmadi, Provincial Head of...

Addis Ababa, Feb 6 : Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat has expressed concern over security situation in the African continent. Addressing the 35th Ordinary Session...

Dar Es Salaam, Feb 6 : Tanzania’s ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) has marked its 45th anniversary with its Chairperson, President Samia Suluhu Hassan, highlighting achievements made by the...

Bandar Seri Begawan, Feb 6 : The Brunei government launches a new tourism package to attract domestic and foreign tourists despite a recent surge in daily Covid-19 cases in the...

Tehran, Feb 6 : Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has called for the removal of US sanctions that could benefit Iran economically. “Real, effective and verifiable...

Aden (Yemen), Feb 6 : The United Nations(UN) has announced that positive discussions with Yemen’s warring parties had taken place regarding a proposal to solve the crisis caused by a...

Kinshasa, Feb 6 : At least six people were injured in the explosion of a homemade bomb in a peripheral market in the city of Beni, in northeastern Democratic Republic...

Addis Ababa, Feb 6 : Senegal President Macky Sall has took over the rotating African Union (AU) chairmanship at the opening of the 35th Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly...

Gandhinagar, Feb 5 : BJP MLA from Rajkot, Govind Patel, on Saturday wrote to Gujarat Minister of State for Home, Harsh Sanghavi, alleging that the Rajkot Commissioner of Police (CP),...

Chennai, Feb 5 : Launching a federation on your own and appealing like minded organisations to nominate a representative is itself against the principle of federalism, former Tamil Nadu Chief...

New Delhi/Nagpur, Feb 5 : Prompted by repeated complaints from the area, a team of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on Saturday visited the villages affected by...

Bengaluru, Feb 5 : Amid the row in Karnataka over students wearing Hijab, the state government on Saturday issued a circular on uniform, reiterating its earlier stand that all government...

Imphal, Feb 5 : The opposition Congress, which had earlier formed a Manipur Progressive Secular Alliance (MPSA) after forging a pre-poll alliance with four Left parties and the Janata Dal-Secular,...

Hyderabad, Feb 5 : A war of words broke out between the BJP and the ruling TRS after Telangana Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao did not receive Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Hyderabad, Feb 5 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hailed the contributions of the Telugu film industry in promoting the glory of Telugu culture. He noted that the Telugu...

Gandhinagar, Feb 5 : The Gujarat government on Saturday announced resumption of offline teaching for Class 1 to 9 from February 7 as the Covid cases have come down in...

Hyderabad, Feb 5 : As Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a statue of equality in Hyderabad on Saturday, supporters of Telangana’s ruling party TRS posed a question ‘Where is equality...

Hyderabad, Feb 5 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday unveiled a 216-feet tall statue of equality commemorating the 11th-century Saint Ramanujacharya. At an elaborate ceremony held at Tridandi Chinna...

New Delhi, Feb 5 : The US government has issued the agreement for the appointment of Sardar Masood Khan as Pakistans envoy in Washington, Geo News reported. The agreement, which...

By Ashis RayLondon, Feb 5 : Rishi Sunak, the Indian-origin chancellor of the exchequer in the British government, was allegedly photographed standing beside Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a gathering...

Patna, Feb 5 : After incense sticks business, RJD leader Tej Pratap Yadav jumped into the rice business on Saturday. Tej Pratap Yadav launched a Basmati Rice product called LR...

Chandigarh, Feb 5 : Ahead of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to announce the chief minister’s face in his virtual address from Ludhiana city in Punjab on Sunday, state president Navjot...

By Atul KrishanNew Delhi, Feb 5 : The ED has claimed in its document accessed by IANS that Bhupinder Singh Honey, the nephew of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi,...

Hyderabad, Feb 5 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday termed digital agriculture as India’s future and that talented youth can play a key role in empowering farmers through digital...

Chandigarh, Feb 5 : A total of 1,304 candidates are in the fray for the 117-member legislative Assembly polls in Punjab slated for February 20, Chief Electoral Officer S.Karuna Raju...

Bengaluru, Feb 5 : The Special Investigation Team (SIT) has submitted a ‘B-report’ (closure of case) in connection with the sensational alleged Sex-CD scandal to the Court of Magistrate in...

New Delhi, Feb 5 : Pakistan and China are all set to sign different agreements worth $10-15 billion during the ongoing visit of Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan to China,...

Dehradun, Feb 5 : In the run-up to the Assembly elections in Uttarakhand scheduled on February 14, the BJP is banking heavily on ‘Brand Modi. The saffron party is prominently...

Mysuru, Feb 5 : Karnataka BJP MP Pratap Simha on Saturday kicked up a storm by stating that those advocating ‘Sharia laws’ should have gone to a separate nation (Pakistan)...

Chennai, Feb 5 : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K.Stalin said on Saturday the social reforms advocated by Vaishnavite saint Ramanujar are close to DMK government’s heart. Thanking Tridandi Chinna Srimannarayana...

Mumbai, Feb 5 : In a shocker, the Khadi & Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has cancelled the ‘Khadi Certification’ of Mumbai’s 68-year-old and famed ‘Khadi Emporium’, and banned it from...

Mumbai, Feb 5 : In a shocker, the Khadi & Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has cancelled the ‘Khadi Certification’ of Mumbai’s 68-year-old and renowned ‘Khadi Emporium’, and banned it from...

Imphal, Feb 5 : Manipur Chief Minister and BJP candidate Nongthombam Biren Singh on Saturday filed his nomination papers seeking re-election for the fifth consecutive term from the Heingang Assembly...

Canberra, Feb 5 : Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce on Saturday apologised to Prime Minister Scott Morrison for calling him “a hypocrite and a liar” and said the latter...

Madrid, Feb 5 : The Spanish government will revoke the outdoor facemask wearing mandate from next week onwards, Health Minister Carolina Darias said. A proposal for that will be approved...

Washington, Feb 5 : The US House of Representatives has narrowly passed a multibillion dollar bill aimed at increasing technological competitiveness amid partisan bickering and strong opposition from the Republican...

United Nations, Feb 5 : Fighting in the Afar region in northern Ethiopia has led to growing humanitarian needs and affects the delivery of aid into the neighbouring Tigray, said...

New Delhi, Feb 5 : As Uttarakhand goes to Assembly polls in a single phase on February 14, activists are demanding political will for implementation of the Forest Rights Act...

Hyderabad, Feb 5 (IAS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here on Saturday on a six-hour visit but Telangana Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao stayed away from welcoming him. Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan,...

Vienna, Feb 5 : Austria will make Covid-19 vaccination compulsory for all adults starting from Saturday, becoming the first European Union country to introduce such a sweeping mandate. The mandate...

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 5 : Even as top Congress leaders on Saturday demanded a re-investigation into the gold smuggling case in the light of the fresh disclosures made by prime accused...

Jerusalem, Feb 5 : Israel’s Health Ministry has decided to ease the Covid-19 Green Pass system, which stipulates that only those who have been vaccinated or recovered from the disease...

Panaji, Feb 5 : Congress national spokesperson Randeep Surjewala on Saturday urged Trinamool Congress leaders to introspect and ponder over whether their participation in the February 14 assembly polls, would...

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 5 : The gold smuggling case which was the main plank of the Congress-led opposition in the 2020 local body polls and the 2021 April 6 Assembly elections...

Ramallah, Feb 5 : At least 159 Palestinian protesters were injured during clashes with the Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS)....

Srinagar, Feb 5 : A special CBI court in Srinagar on Saturday granted bail to a former divisional commissioner and a former deputy commissioner charged in the Roshni land scam....

Chennai, Feb 5 : The meeting of political parties having their representatives in the Tamil Nadu assembly on Saturday decided to convene a special session of the house and pass...

Jammu, Feb 5 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday to inquire about the situation following the earthquake that hit the Union...

Chennai, Feb 5 : The Tamil Nadu Vanigar Sangankalin Peramaippu, a traders body, has requested the state Election Commission to allow the traders to carry a minimum amount of Rs...

Antananarivo, Feb 5 : The UN, Madagascar government, and partner agencies are preparing for the potentially devastating consequences of tropical cyclone Batsirai which is set to make landfall in the...

Lucknow, Feb 5 : The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Saturday released a list of 54 candidates for the sixth phase of the Uttar pradesh Assembly polls and fielded Khwaja...

Chennai, Feb 5 : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K.Stalin has urged Union External Affairs Minister S.Jaishankar to discuss participation of Tamil Nadu fishermen in the annual festival at St Antony’s...

Cape Town, Feb 5 : A South African regional court has denied the bail application of Zandile Christmas Mafe, the Cape Town man who is suspected of setting fire to...

Hyderabad, Feb 5 : Senior politician, former MP, and one of the BJP’s pioneer leaders from Telangana, Chandupatla Janga Reddy passed away on Saturday morning.He was 87. Braving the Congress...

Chennai, Feb 5 : Tamil Nadu BJP President K.Annamalai has asked Chief Minister M.K.Stalin to release the letter sent by Governor R.N.Ravi while returning the Bill seeking exemption from NEET...

Seoul, Feb 5 : The US and eight other countries have called on the UN Security Council (UNSC) to condemn North Korea’s recent missile tests after the council’s closed meeting...

Chennai, Feb 5 : The ruling DMK-led front seems to have an upper hand in the February 19 Tamil Nadu urban local body polls. The last day for submission of...

By Arul LouisNew York, Feb 5 : US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet Indian External Affairs Minister S.Jaishankar to “reaffirm our vitally important strategic partnership” when they are...

United Nations, Feb 5 : The UN Security Council (UNSC) has called for the normal functioning of government in Lebanon to carry out much-needed reforms and hold elections. In a...

Ottawa, Feb 5 : Canada’s employment fell by 200,000 and the unemployment rate rose 0.5 percentage points to 6.5 per cent in January, according to Statistics Canada. With the spread...

Sanaa, Feb 5 : The Yemeni army has advanced into the northern district of Harad near the Saudi Arabian border, recapturing a military camp, a village, and a series of...

Washington, Feb 5 : The US Federal Reserve Board has named Jerome Powell as “chair pro tempore”, pending his confirmation by the Senate for a second term as Chair of...

New Delhi, Feb 5 : President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday greeted people of the country on he occasion of ‘Saraswati Puja’...

Bali, Feb 5 : The Indonesian resort island of Bali has officially resumed international direct flights carrying foreign tourists for the first time since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic...

Bhopal, Feb 5 : After reviewing the prevailing Covid situation in the state, the Madhya Pradesh government on Friday removed the cap on the number of guests attending wedding ceremonies....

New Delhi, Feb 5 : The government is planning to include natural farming in the agriculture education curriculum, the Rajya Sabha was told on Friday. The government is promoting natural...

New Delhi, Feb 5 : There are sudden climatic changes and other issues, which are becoming more frequent, but there is no proposal before the government for creation of a...

Bengaluru, Feb 5 : The Karnataka Congress has demanded removal of the Principal of Kundapur Pre-University College of the state’s Udupi district for denying entry to Muslim girl students in...

Athens, Feb 5 : A holistic, coherent, and fair European approach to migration is the only way forward and member states must agree on a ‘Migration and Asylum’ pact, a...

New Delhi, Feb 5 : The data of the soon-to-be launched e-passport will protected through multi-layered cyber security features, the government has assured the Lok Sabha. The External Affairs Minister...

Washington, Feb 5 : Former US Vice President Mike Pence has said that he had “no right” to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The remarks were made...

New Delhi, Feb 5 : Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh on Friday said that the Chair cannot decide to take up a Private Member’s Bill to amend the Preamble to...

Washington, Feb 5 : US employers added 467,000 jobs in January amid the Omicron surge, with the unemployment rate slightly rising to 4.0 per cent, the US Labor Department reported...

Jakarta, Feb 5 : The Indonesian resort island of Bali on Friday officially reopened international direct flights carrying foreign tourists from all countries for the first time after two years,...

Nairobi, Feb 5 : The climate crisis that is unfolding in many parts of Africa should be addressed urgently in order to cushion local communities from widespread hunger, poverty, water...

Gandhinagar, Feb 4 : The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the main opposition in the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC), got a big jolt on Friday after five of its corporators jumped...

Hyderabad, Feb 4 : The Telangana Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) will operate 3,845 buses for ‘Medaram Jatara’, billed as the country’s biggest tribal fair, which is scheduled to be held...

Guwahati, Feb 4 : The Gauhati High Court on Friday upheld the Assam act, enacted last year, to repeal the Madrassa Education Provincialisation Act. All government-run madrassas in Assam were...

New Delhi, Feb 4 : Lok Sabha MP Rama Devi, who drew the ire of Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra for “not letting her speak”, said on Friday she never...

Guwahati, Feb 4 : Consul General of Bhutan in Guwahati, Jigme Thinley Namgyal, and Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi on Friday held discussions on wide range of issues covering trade, tourism,...

Jammu, Feb 4 : Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday reviewed the Covid-19 situation in the Union Territory in a series of meetings with the members of...

Patna/New Delhi, Feb 4 : RJD President Lalu Prasad Yadav on Friday sought to quash speculation that he would step down from the post and son Tejashwi Yadav could be...

Imphal, Feb 4 : Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K.Sangma, whose National People’s Party (NPP) is an ally of the BJP both in Meghalaya and Manipur, on Friday reiterated that his...

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 4 : A day after news that top Kerala bureaucrat M.Sivasankar, who is one of the accused in the infamous gold smuggling case, claimed in his autobiography that...

Panaji, Feb 4 : In a major electoral promise, the Congress in Goa has promised to cap the price of petrol and diesel at Rs 80 per litre. In its...

New Delhi, Feb 4 : The Indian government has turned down a demand of tech billionaire Elon Musk’s electric vehicle (EV) company Tesla for tax breaks to import electric cars,...

Bengaluru, Feb 4 : The hijab row in Karnataka is spreading fast to other districts of the state.Muslim students in Mysuru district started a “I love hijab” movement on Friday.The...

Bengaluru, Feb 4 : Former Union minister and senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday locked horns with ex-Infosys Director T.V.Mohan Das Pai on social media over the ongoing hijab...

New Delhi, Feb 4 : The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its order on a plea filed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s election agent S.K.Supiyan seeking pre-arrest bail...

Panaji, Feb 4 : The main political protagonists in the February 14 assembly polls in Goa is the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said...

Hyderabad, Feb 4 : The Parliamentary Privilege and Ethics Committee issued notice to Telangana’s Chief Secretary, Home Secretary and other officials on a complaint by BJP MP from Nizamabad, Arvind...

Kolkata, Feb 4 : The bitter conflict between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar reached the administrative corridor on Friday when the latter in a tweet...

Panaji, Feb 4 : The Congress will introduce the populist ‘Nyay’ scheme implemented by the party’s Chhattisgarh government in Goa if the party comes to power, which will provide a...

New Delhi, Feb 4 : In an unusual development which may raise voices in support of freedom of expression, Pakistans hockey Olympian Rashid-ul-Hasan was banned for 10 years by the...

Sindhudurg (Maharashtra), Feb 4 : Spelling some relief, a Sindhudurg Court on Friday remanded BJP MLA Nitesh Rane and his aide Rakesh Parab to 14-day judicial custody in connection with...

Amaravati, Feb 4 : A day after the roaring success of Andhra Pradesh government employees’ ‘Chalo Vijayawada’ despite police denying them permission, Director General of Police Gautam Sawang on Friday...

Jaipur, Feb 4 : Amid the huge uproar over the REET 2021 paper leak and before the start of the budget session, the Congress government in Rajasthan has decided to...

New Delhi, Feb 4 : With the eyes of the world and a billion of its own citizens fixed on northern China, the ‘magical’ scenery and snow at the Beijing...

New Delhi, Feb 4 : BJD MP Prasanna Acharya on Friday flayed the Centre for not meeting the target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022 as promised. He was participating...

New Delhi/Chandigarh, Feb 4 : A court in Punjab’s Jalandhar city on Friday sent Bhupinder Singh Honey, Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s nephew, to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody till...

New Delhi, Feb 4 : Hyderabad MP and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday rejected the Z category security provided to him earlier in the day, a day after shots...

Chennai, Feb 4 : Alleging a big brother attitude by the DMK in seat sharing, the left parties, CPI, and CPM have snapped ties with the DMK in Kannampalayam town...

Chandigarh, Feb 4 : Eyeing to woo the farmers, who constitute an influential electoral cohort, the BJP-Punjab Lok Congress-Shiromani Akali Dal (Sanyukt) alliance on Friday released 11 resolutions for Punjab...

Panaji, Feb 4 : All candidates from the Congress-Goa Forward alliance in Goa on Friday took oath on the Constitution to not defect or resign from the party in the...

Bengaluru, Feb 4 : Karnataka Leader of Opposition from the Congress, Siddaramaiah coming down heavily on the central government in connection with the interlinking of rivers of southern India, stated...

New Delhi, Feb 4 : The Supreme Court has been informed that cases pending against sitting and former MP/MLAs increased from 4,110 in December 2018 to 4,984 in December 2021....

New Delhi, Feb 4 : Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday that the Narendra Modi-led government is willing to introduce stricter social media norms and...

New Delhi, Feb 4 : Republic Day coverage on the YouTube network of DD garnered more views than its TV network, at 2.6 crore and 2.3 crore respectively, Ministry of...

Sindhudurg (Maharashtra), Feb 4 : A court in Sindhudurg on Friday sent BJP MLA Nitesh Rane to 14-day judicial custody in connection with his alleged involvement in an attempt to...

New Delhi, Feb 4 : The Congress has released its list of star campaigners for the February 20 Punjab Assembly elections with the surprise omission of the partys lone non-Sikh...

Hyderabad, Feb 4 : There was mild tension around the historic Mecca Masjid here on Friday as some people tried to take out a rally to condemn the attack on...

Bengaluru, Feb 4 : Karnataka Minister for Health K.Sudhakar on Friday said that the seating restrictions imposed in theatres across the state due to the Covid third wave will be...

Hyderabad, Feb 4 : In what is being seen as a politically significant move, Telangana Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao is not likely to receive Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the...

Gorakhpur, Feb 4 : There are no criminal cases against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. In his affidavit filed with his nomination for the Gorakhpur Assembly seat on Friday,...

Chennai, Feb 4 : Restoration of heritage buildings by the Tamil Nadu Public Works Department has hit a roadblock following the lack of skilled labourers and material. The 250-year-old Humayun...

Patna, Feb 4 : The opposition leaders in Bihar on Friday came out against the alleged incident of sexual assault at a shelter home in Gaighat in the state capital,...

By Venkatachari JagannathanChennai, Feb 4 : Present and past officials of Integral Coach Factory (ICF) here experienced space scientist ‘Nambi Narayanan moment’ when Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced production of...

Seoul, Feb 4 : The four main South Korean presidential candidates in the fray for the March 9 elections are set to hold their second TV debate next week at...

Colombo, Feb 4 : Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday granted amnesty to 197 prisoners on the country’s 74th Independence Day. The prisoners were released at a ceremony held...

Tokyo, Feb 4 : Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and new US Ambassador to Tokyo Rahm Emanuel met for the very first time on Friday and held brief talks. During...

Seoul, Feb 4 : South Korea on Friday launched a government-private taskforce to draw up a strategy against Japan’s push for the listing of the Sado mine, linked with wartime...

New Delhi, Feb 4 : Uttar Pradesh has been selected as the best state tableau at the Republic Day parade this year and the Indian Navy marching contingent has been...

New Delhi, Feb 4 : UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been rocked by another Downing Street resignation after a fifth aide quit as Cabinet Ministers said they believe there...

New Delhi, Feb 4 : Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Kailash Choudhary on Friday said that the Government is committed to set up a committee to examine...

Vientiane, Feb 4 : The Laos government has cut the required Covid-19 quarantine period for new arrivals from 14 days to seven days for certain types of visitors. Deputy Head...

Los Angeles, Feb 4 : Los Angeles will raise its minimum wage from $15 to $16.04 per hour starting from July 1, the city’s Mayor Eric Garcetti announced. To ensure...

Udupi (Karnataka) Feb 4 : The Muslim students of the Bhandarkar’s College in Kundapura of Udupi district in Karnataka on Friday staged a protest in front of the college entrance...

Udupi (Karnataka) Feb 4 : The Muslim students of the Bhandarkar’s College in Kundapura of Udupi district in Karnataka on Friday staged a protest in front of the college entrance...

Udupi (Karnataka) Feb 4 : The Muslim students of the Bhandarkar’s College in Kundapura of Udupi district in Karnataka on Friday staged a protest in front of the college entrance...

Accra, Feb 4 : The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has decided to send a stabilisation force to help normalise the security situation in Guinea-Bissau after the failed...

Accra, Feb 4 : The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has decided to send a stabilisation force to help normalise the security situation in Guinea-Bissau after the failed...

Khartoum, Feb 4 : Chairman of Sudan’s transitional Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to facilitate the work of humanitarian organisations and provide safety for their...

Khartoum, Feb 4 : Chairman of Sudan’s transitional Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to facilitate the work of humanitarian organisations and provide safety for their...

New Delhi, Feb 4 : The committee for Minimum Support Price (MSP) will be formed after the Assembly polls are over in five states, the government told Rajya Sabha on...

Ankara, Feb 4 : Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog will visit Ankara in mid-March as the two countries seek to restore bilateral ties....

Bern, Feb 4 : Despite record high Covid-19 cases, Switzerland has lifted the requirements to work from home and to quarantine after coming in contact with an infected person. The...

Ankara, Feb 4 : Turkish security forces have “neutralised” 43 members of Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria, the Defence Ministry in Ankara said. The move came in retaliation...

New Delhi, Feb 4 : The DMK Members on Friday protested against Tamil Nadu Governor R.N.Ravi in the Rajya Sabha and sought the Chair’s permission to speak on the issue...

Riyadh, Feb 4 : Saudi Arabia announced that only citizens who have received the Covid booster shot will be allowed to travel abroad starting from February 9, state media reported....

Dakshina Kannada, Feb 4 : Investigation into the penthouse prostitution racket has revealed shocking details, police sources said on Friday. During interrogation, the accused revealed that they watched, selected, trapped...

Ankara, Feb 4 : Turkey’s annual inflation surged to a 20-year high of 48.69 per cent in January, the country’s Statistical Institute announced. The country’s consumer prices raised by 11.1...

Washington, Feb 4 : Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has called for more policy agility and global cooperation to navigate an economic “obstacle course” as...

New Delhi, Feb 4 : The Centre on Friday provided ‘Z’ category security to AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi, a day after his convoy was attacked near the national capital. According...

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 4 : Kerala Lokayukta Justice (retd) Cyriac Joseph on Friday ruled that State Higher Education Minister R.Bindhu, who wrote two letters to Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan demanding...

Patna, Feb 4 : Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad’s elder son, Tej Pratap Yadav, on Friday slammed the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar and took a sarcastic jibe...

Frankfurt, Feb 4 : The European Central Bank (ECB) has decided to keep interest rates and other monetary policies unchanged in spite of inflation spikes in the euro area. Inflation...

Seoul, Feb 4 : South Korea’s National Election Commission (NEC) on Friday said it was reviewing plans to allow Covid-infected voters to cast their ballots in the March 9 presidential...

Seoul, Feb 4 : North Korea is set to convene a key meeting of its rubber-stamp legislature this weekend following a barrage of missile tests, a potential opportunity for the...

London, Feb 4 : The Bank of England (BoE) has raised interest rates for the second time in seven weeks to fight a surge in inflation. At its meeting late...

Addis Ababa, Feb 4 : The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the fragility and vulnerability of food systems in Africa, a senior official said here. Josefa Sacko, AU Commissioner for...

Jammu, Feb 4 : The Jammu and Kashmir government has withdrawn all posts referred for selection to the public service commission (PSC) and the service selection board (SSB) which were...

Lucknow, Feb 4 : The various farm unions, owing allegiance to the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) have issued an appeal to voters in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand to punish the...

Srinagar, Feb 4 : All flight operations to and from the Srinagar International Airport shall remain suspended after 5 p.m.on Friday, Saturday and Sunday during the months of February and...

Gorakhpur, Feb 4 : In the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday filed his nomination papers for the Gorakhpur Assembly seat. Union...

Gorakhpur (UP), Feb 4 : Chandra Shekhar Azad, the Azad Samaj Party (ASP) candidate from the Gorakhpur Assembly seat in the upcoming elections has demanded immediate removal of Senior Superintendent...

Kochi, Feb 4 : The Kerala government has ordered a probe after a 57-year-old fisherman committed suicide citing “apathy” of officials at the Fort Kochi revenue office. Kerala Revenue Minister...

Hyderabad, Feb 4 : Massive security arrangements will be in place for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Hyderabad on Saturday in view of the recent security breach in Punjab....

New Delhi, Feb 4 : Major General Babar Iftikhar, the Director General of the Pakistan military’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), has categorically rejected the Indian Army chief’s claim that the...

Kolkata, Feb 4 : After Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar said that no files were pending with him, Speaker Biman Banerjee hit back and indirectly alleged that the Governor’s claim was far...

Stockholm, Feb 4 : The Swedish government announced that most of the Covid-19 restrictions and recommendations will be lifted from February 9 onwards. “It’s time for Sweden to open up...

Bhopal, Feb 4 : The Centre has approved the Madhya Pradesh government’s proposal to rename Hoshangabad district as Narmadapuram and a Babai town as Makhan Nagar, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh...

Belfast, Feb 4 : Northern Ireland’s First Minister Paul Givan has resigned as part of the protest staged by his Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) against the post-Brexit trade arrangements known...

Los Angeles, Feb 4 : One person was killed and four others were injured during a shooting inside a passenger bus in California, authorities said. Addressing reporters on Thursday, Butte...

Rome, Feb 4 : Italian President Sergio Mattarella has been sworn in for a second seven-year term. His re-election, which Parliament voted with a broad majority on January 29, came...

By Arul LouisNew York, Feb 4 : A Russian invasion of Ukraine would also have implications for India, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said, adding that Washington has been...

Chennai, Feb 4 : Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu O.Panneerselvam on Friday came down heavily on the DMK government for not taking action on the cancellation of medical entrance...

Seoul, Feb 4 : Seoul’s subway operator will introduce brand new trains equipped with wider seats for pregnant women and free mobile phone chargers starting later this month, officials said...

Seoul, Feb 4 : North Korea has convened a national response committee to prepare emergency measures against natural disasters, including typhoons and floods, according to its state media on Friday....

New Delhi, Feb 4 : Almost a fortnight before the polling, the BJP on Friday released a song for the Punjab Assembly polls.The BJP Punjab campaign song is sung by...

Lucknow, Feb 4 : The Samajwadi Party (SP), which is in the middle of hectic campaigning, is now facing the threat of rebel candidates on four Assembly constituencies in Lucknow....

Moscow, Feb 4 : The Russian Foreign Ministry announced the closure of the Moscow bureau of German broadcaster Deutsche Welle as the first stage of retaliatory measures following the German...

Jerusalem, Feb 4 : Israel and Bahrain signed a security agreement, the first of its kind since the normalisation of ties between the two nations, during a two-day visit by...

Kanpur, Feb 4 : He is a ‘dead’ man and his hopes of ‘returning back to life’ have been dashed after his nomination papers for an Assembly seat in Kanpur...

Tunis, Feb 4 : Tunisia has been elected a member of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU) for the period 2022-2024, the Foreign Ministry here announced....

New Delhi, Feb 4 : The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has Bhupinder Singh Honey, the nephew of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, in connection with a Prevention of Money Laundering...

Prayagraj, Feb 4 : Saints and seers have urged Hindus to re-elect Yogi Adityanath as the next Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and a government that protects the culture and...

Lucknow, Feb 4 : The Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), which is making a debut in the Uttar Pradesh polls, is not only contesting the upcoming Assembly elections but is also...

Mathura (UP), Feb 4 : The Mathura police have arrested five persons, including two alleged shooters, hired for killing a BJP worker and village head, Ramveer Singh, an aide of...

Lucknow, Feb 4 : The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has appointed Seema Kushwaha, the lawyer in the Nirbhaya case who recently joined the party, as its national spokesperson. She is...

New Delhi, Feb 4 : Amidst the campaign trail underway ahead of the high voltage Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, RLD President Jayant Chaudhary and Congress...

Damascus, Feb 4 : At least 13 people were killed during a US security operation in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, a war monitor reported. Four children and three women...

Washington, Feb 4 : US President Joe Biden has announced a new set of actions aimed at reducing gun violence across the country. The Biden administration will crack down on...

New Delhi, Feb 4 : The Centre does not have any proposal for mandatory enrollment of graduates at employment exchanges across the country, the Parliament was told on Thursday. Registration...

Lucknow, Feb 4 : The Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh has written to the Election Commission of India (ECI) complaining about the tone and tenor of the language used...

Washington, Feb 4 : All three of US President Joe Biden’s nominees to join the Federal Reserve board have vowed to reduce high inflation if they are confirmed by the...

Moscow, Feb 4 : Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron held a phone conversation, the third one within seven days, to discuss the Ukrainian crisis and security...

Jaipur, Feb 4 : The Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teacher (REET) paper leak case of 2021 was raised in the Lok Sabha on Thursday by RLP convenor and Nagaur MP...

New Delhi, Feb 4 : The unemployment rate for persons of 15 years and above in urban areas was 6.9 per cent in 2019-20, Union Minister of State, Ministry of...