As Sonia Gandhi is all set to complete one year as the interim president of the Indian National Congress on August 10, the Congress Working Committee (CWC) is likely to make a decision on soon on the extension of her tenure
New Delhi: The Indian army asked its soldiers and officers to delete 89 apps from their smartphones, according to a report put out by news agency ANI on Wednesday.
Even as West Bengal is grappling with mounting coronavirus cases and deaths by the day during Unlock 2.0, the state is witnessing a renewed spurt in political violence between parties.
On Tuesday (July 7) night, BJP parliamentarian Arjun Singh's h...
India saw a record single-day surge of 24,879 coronavirus infections which pushed the nationwide COVID-19 caseload to 7,67,296 on Thursday (July 9), while the death toll climbed to 21,129 with 487 new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministr...
Are the posts of Information Commissioners turning into political rehabilitation centres? The trend of appointing persons with close political affiliation with the ruling party as information commissioners is continuing in Andhra Pradesh, despite the...
Science should not be subordinated to political deadlines and exigencies. This sums up the response from the scientific community in the wake of a storm over the August 15 deadline set by the ICMR for the launch of the indigenous COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxine, for public use.
Amid the COVID-19 crisis gripping the country, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday (July 08) granted its nod to the distribution of free food grains to the poor until November and approved the extension of a scheme, where the government contributes to the...
A pall of gloom descended on the scenic Kashmir valley when it was learned that the Jammu and Kashmir administration had started granting new domicile certificates to non-Kashmiris. Minutes after the picture of the domicile certificate went viral and caused panic, reactions and commentaries followed on social media. An overwhelming majority now fears that a demography change is round the corner. New classes of people have been made eligible for domicile status including migrants, central government employees, armed forces personnel and their children. Click here to know more.
Swapna Suresh, a former employee at the UAE Consulate General whose alleged role in the recent gold smuggling case has sparked a controversy, has claimed in her anticipatory bail plea in the Kerala High Court that she had only followed instructions from the Consul General.
Bengaluru: The much-lauded 'Bangalore COVID-19 model' seems to have faltered with the state government relaxing lockdown restrictions to boost economic activities in the state that had come to a grinding halt for two months.
New Delhi: The Indian Railways (IR) seems to have taken some learnings from the hiccups faced by Airports Authority of India (AAI) in privatising airports, by barring a single bidder from bagging all the deals, while inviting bids by private parties to ope...
New Delhi: A finance ministry report on Monday (July 6) said that the country's gross domestic product (GDP) will contract 4.5 per cent as predicted by International Monetary Fund, in the current fiscal due to unprecedented supply-demand shocks induced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
New Delhi: The CBI has booked Venkata Krishna Reddy Gunupati, the chairman of the GVK Group of Companies and his son GV Sanjay Reddy, Managing Director of Mumbai International Airport Ltd among others for alleged irregularities to the tune of ₹705 crore in...
Indian Railways on Wednesday (July 1) formally started its plans to allow private entities to operate passenger trains on its network by inviting request for qualifications (RFQ) for participation on 109 pairs of routes through 151 modern trains...
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd's (BSNL) tender for 4G upgrade has been cancelled after the Department of Telecom (DoT) asked the state-run firm not to use Chinese telecom gear, according to a source.
The Reserve Bank of India has announced the launch of Floating Rate Savings Bonds 2020 (Taxable) with an interest rate of 7.15 per cent, which will be available for subscriptions from July 1.
Mumbai: India's external debt stood at USD 558.5 billion in March, an increase of USD 15.4 billion compared to the year-ago period, according to RBI data.
Naming BCCI president Sourav Ganguly as the favourite captain he had played under, former opener Wasim Jaffer said it was the former Indian skipper who had brought players like Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh to the ...
New Delhi: The Sports Ministry on Saturday removed the ₹2 lakh cap on the salary given to Indian coaches for training elite athletes in a bid to encourage them to produce better results.
Djokovic had tested positive 10 days ago after playing in an exhibition series in Serbia and Croatia with zero social distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic
After two tenures as the chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC), Shashank Manohar on Wednesday (July 1) announced that he is stepping down from the position.
New Delhi: Some flights are likely to be operated from India to the UAE very soon for Indians having valid residency or work permit for the UAE, its Ambassador Ahmed Al Banna said on Wednesda...
A day after stating that the US was looking at banning Chinese social media apps, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday (July 08) said China’s action along the LAC was "incre...
New Delhi: The External Affairs Ministry said on Wednesday (July 8) that Pakistan’s claim that Kulbhushan Jadhav has refused to initiate review petition was a "continuation of the farce" that has been in play for the last four years, and that he was coerced to refuse a review petition for his death sentence.
Two days after US immigration authorities said foreign students at US universities and schools would no longer be eligible to stay in the country if the institutions switch to onli...
Mumbai: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has told the Bombay High Court that a decision to declare sanitary napkins as an essential commodity can be taken only after following the due process.
New Delhi: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) have started using computational methods to understand the factors and impediments in incorporating biofuels into the fuel sector in India, in a bid to reduce carbon emissions from the use of fossil fuels.
New Delhi: The Ministry of Human Resource Development on Friday postponed medical and engineering entrance exams NEET and JEE to September in view of the spike in COVID-19 cases.
