Delhi recorded over 40 mm of rains in the first few hours of the monsoon, bringing the mercury down and providing relief to people reeling under heat.
No major traffic snarl or waterlogging was reported from the city as there was no heavy rain in the morning hours though the sky was cloudy and it was...
Lucknow: With a view to catering to needs of tourists visiting Taj city Agra, an international airport would soon come up between Agra and Mathura. The airport, to be built on PPP model, is likely to be completed by 2017, a tourism department spokesman said.
The district magistrates of Agra and Mathura...
Shimla, July 6: Launching a fresh attack on UPA’s presidential nominee Pranab Mukerjee, Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj alleged that his signatures on the papers he put in while resigning from ISI, Kolkata were not genuine.
Swaraj, who was at Kangra in Himachal to inaugurate the...
The Union government on Friday appointed Home Minister P. Chidambaram the chairman of the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on spectrum, which has a daunting task to accomplish in a matter of days.
With this, Mr. Chidambaram has become the third chairman of the EGoM, replacing Sharad Pawar, who took...
Zohal Hamid, a United States-based businesswoman who hit the headlines after she accused Australian cricketer Luke Pomersbach of assault in May, may have facilitated the operations of a firm linked to a 2011 defence payoffs scandal, documents sent to the Central Bureau of Investigation say.
C. Edmonds...
Is the holy institution or the man in it, is of much relevance today? One of the greatest spiritual leaders in the history of the world, the Dalai Lama has not been successful as a political force. A veteran foreign correspondent of a US-based newspaper had once rightly said that the Dalai undoubtedly...
Srinagar, July 6: Four pilgrims and an army jawan died of cardiac arrest enroute to the Amarnath shrine in south Kashmir, taking the death toll in the ongoing yatra to 37, officials said today.
The jawan, identified as Naik Sant Lal, a resident of Haryana, collapsed during patrolling in Brarimarg area...
Hyderabad, July 6:A local CBI special Court today granted permission to the Enforcement Directorate to question YSR Congress Party chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy with regard to suspected foreign fund flow into his firms.
The Court allowed the ED sleuths to grill the Kadapa MP from tomorrow till July 21.
According...
New Delhi, Jul 6: After holding talks with his Indian counterpart Ranjan Mathai on crucial issues including terrorism, Pakistan foreign secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani today said the two countries have made “good progress” during the parleys.
He also stressed the need for India and Pakistan...
Bulandshahr (UP), July 6: Unfazed by the denial of permission to Team Anna to hold an indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar from July 25, social activist Manish Sisodia today asked people to turn up in large numbers at the venue.
Team Anna will hold the protest at the same spot and if denied, in jail, Sisodia,...
