India, Pakistan To Re-Engage In Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue Next Month
ISLAMABAD -- The Foreign Secretaries of Pakistan and India will meet next month in Delhi to work out the details of the newly-announced Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue after the two countries decided...
View ArticleAtrocities Against Children: Three Minor Girls Repeatedy Raped By Their...
NEW DELHI -- Three minor girls have been allegedly raped by their family members, two of them by their fathers, in separate incidents, police said today. In the first incident, a seven-year-old girl...
View ArticleBanarasi Babus Turn Champions For Indo-Japan Friendship
It is not often that a city like Varanasi, not even the state capital, hosts a state visit by the prime minister of a foreign country. Since their Lok Sabha MP, Narendra Modi, signed a Varanasi-Tokyo...
View ArticleUP Board Exams: CCTV Cameras To Be Installed In Class X, XII Examination Rooms
MEERUT -- Surveillance cameras will be installed to monitor centres, control rooms and other places ahead of the UP state board examinations, officials said here today. Joint Director (Education)...
View ArticlePM Modi: Make In India Now A 'Movement' In Japan; $12 Million Earmarked For...
NEW DELHI -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the 'Make in India' initiative has become a movement in Japan and the island nation has created a fund of about USD 12 billion for it. "Today,...
View ArticleIndia Imposes Import Duties On Stainless Steel To Protect Local Companies...
NEW DELHI -- India imposed import duties for five years on some stainless steel imports from China, the European Union and the United States on Friday, as the government tries to protect local...
View ArticleSonia Didn't Want A Man With Independent Mind To Become PM: Sharad Pawar In...
New Delhi -- Sharad Pawar, who had opposed Sonia Gandhi's foreign origins in 1997 but patched up with her later, has now come out with details of how she had preferred P V Narasimha Rao to him in 1991...
View ArticleFirst-Time Women Voters In Saudi Arabia To Get A Free Ride From Uber
NEW YORK -- Online taxi-hailing service Uber will give Saudi Arabian women lifts to polling stations for free on Saturday to help boost female participation at the first elections in the deeply...
View ArticleTsunami Survivor Deborah Herold First Indian To Secure No 4 Spot In World...
New Delhi -- In a big boost to her Rio Olympics qualification bid, India's cycling star Deborah Herold jumped to a historic fourth spot in the world rankings issued today. Deborah was 10th just before...
View ArticleIntolerance Has Been There In India For The Past 60 Years, Says Sonam Kapoor
New Delhi -- Sonam Kapoor has represented India on many international platforms, but the actress says she has been a victim of racism. The 30-year-old actress, who was addressing a session on the first...
View ArticleMP Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah Offers People To Click Selfies With Him For A...
BHOPAL -- Taking a cue from the daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, Madhya Pradesh Food and Civil Supplies Minister, Kunwar Vijay Shah has offered people of his constituency to take selfies with him by...
View ArticleChennai's Flood Fight Makes A Strong Case For Self-Governance
Over the last few days, Chennai witnessed unprecedented rains that brought everyone and everything to their knees, sorry, hips. What was heartening was the fact that the citizens showed their...
View ArticlePM Modi And Shinzo Abe Witness Ganga Aarti At Varanasi With Shlokas And Selfies
Everyone know Prime Minister Narendra Modi loves taking selfies. It seems his selfie fever is contagious too. When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attended Varanasi's spectacular Ganga Aarti at...
View ArticleTwo Minor Girls Gangraped In Kerala, Four Arrested
PATHANAMTHITTA -- Four boys were arrested in Pathanamthitta district in Kerala on Saturday for gang raping two schoolgirls. The victims, who are students of class 9 and 10 at a government school in...
View ArticleIn Agra, 12,000 Appear For BEd Exam But 20,000 Pass
Several private college authorities in Agra are expected to land in jail for gross irregularities, after the BEd exams results announced that 20,000 students have passed it while only 12,800 appeared...
View Article23-Year-Old From Chennai Attempts To Join ISIS In Libya, Deported Back To India
A 23 -year-old man was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) yesterday who had allegedly reached Sudan to join the terror group ISIS in Libya. According to a report in The New Indian...
View ArticleRanveer Wants Salman To Pat His Back After Watching 'Bajirao Mastani'
NEW DELHI -- Ranveer Singh wishes superstar Salman Khan, the original choice to play Peshwa Bajirao, likes his take on the Maratha warrior in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Bajirao Mastani. Salman, 49, was...
View ArticleParis Climate Deal Creates A 'Chapter Of Hope,' Says Prakash Javadekar
PARIS -- India today hailed the adoption of a landmark climate change deal as a "historic day" which promises a "better future" and creates a "chapter of hope" in the lives of seven billion people....
View ArticleRoger Federer Doesn't Really Know What To Call IPTL, But He Surely Loves It
NEW DELHI -- Even after two successive appearances, Roger Federer can't really make up his mind on where to bracket the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) in his busy schedule but the Swiss...
View ArticleDelhi Government To Issue Permits To 10,000 New Autos Before Implementing The...
NEW DELHI-- The Delhi government will issue permits to 10,000 new autorickshaws by the end of this month in a bid to strengthen the public transport system in the national capital ahead of the odd-even...
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