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Somali Security Forces End Deadly Siege Of Restaurant, Over 20 Killed In The...
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somalia's security forces ended a deadly siege of a beachfront restaurant in the capital, with more than 20 people killed in the attack, a police official said Friday. The...
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Poor Labourers Toil For Over 12 Hours A Day To Feed India's Cheap Car Boom
FARIDABAD -- In a dingy factory in the sprawling industrial hub of Manesar in northern India, a plastic moulding machine malfunctioned, mangling Visheshwar Prasad Singh's right hand as he made parts...
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Odd-Even Scheme: Air Quality Worsened After The Rule Ended, Says Study
NEW DELHI -- The first three working days after the end of the odd-even scheme saw rapid worsening of air quality with levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) registering a jump of more than 57 per...
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US Student Said 'ISIS' In Pledge, Removed From School
WASHINGTON -- A 15-year-old student in the US sparked a federal investigation when he allegedly substituted 'ISIS' for the 'United States of America' during the morning Pledge of Allegiance at his...
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Modi Grants ST Status To Bodos, Karbis And Mikirs In The North-East
GUWAHATI/GANGTOK -- On his recent visit to northeast, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that Bodos, Karbis and Mikirs would hence forth be included in the Scheduled Tribes list. Prime Minister...
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Day Two: Jaipur Literature Festival 2016 Must-Attends
(Schedule is subject to change so please check the updated versions usually placed outside each venue.) 10 am: Climates Margaret Atwood speaks to Parul Sehgal, senior editor at the New York Times,...
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Modi May Rejig Govt Top Brass, Bring In New Faces: Sources
NEW DELHI -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi may look to press the reset button on his leadership this spring to reinvigorate stalled economic reforms and appease critics, eyeing a mix of tried and tested...
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Strategist Prashant Kishor To Be Advisor To CM Nitish Kumar
PATNA -- Strategist Prashant Kishor who helped the Mahagathbandhan to trounce the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Bihar Assembly polls will be inducted as advisor to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Kishor...
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Google Honours Wilbur Scoville, The Man Who Invented A Scale To Measure How...
How many of you have heard of Wilbur Scoville? If you haven't, let Google enlighten you about him with the fantastic doodle they have come up with in memory of Scoville's 151st birth anniversary....
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Driver Of Taxi Hired From Pathankot Found Dead; Nationwide NIA Raids Amidst...
The driver of a missing taxi hired from Pathankot in Punjab has been found dead, according to an alert issued by the Delhi Police. The white Alto car with the numberplate HP 01D 2440 was hired by three...
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Narendra Modi To Declassify 100 Netaji Files Today
NEW DELHI -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the digital copies of 100 files related to Subhash Chandra Bose on his birth anniversary today. "The National Archives of India (NAI) is placing...
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Uma Bharti Attacks Left, Congress, Blames Them For Creating Atmosphere Of...
CHANDWAJI -- Union Minister Uma Bharti today accused Left parties and the Congress of creating an atmosphere of intolerance, saying their leaders were unhappy with the BJP coming to power at the Centre...
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JLF 2016: Day Three Must-Attends
(Schedule is subject to changes, check the daily agenda usually posted by the reception for last minute venue switches.) 10 am: Rich and Poor French economist Thomas Piketty will talk to Sebastian...
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Narendra Modi Says It Is A Very Special Day As Declassification Of Netaji...
NEW DELHI -- As nation pays tribute to freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose on his 119th birth anniversary today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said it is a very special day as declassification...
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Prakash Jha's 'Jai Gangaajal' Gets FCAT's Clearance With Two Minor Cuts
NEW DELHI -- Filmmaker Prakash Jha's upcoming Jai Gangaajal, which was stuck at the censor board, yesterday got a clearance from the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT), which asked for two...
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Nitish Kumar Assures Action Against JD(U) MLA Sarfaraz Alam
PATNA -- Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday said his government would initiate action against JD(U) MLA Sarfaraz Alam, who allegedly misbehaved with a woman on the Dibrugarh-New Delhi...
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Bhubaneswar-Mumbai GoAir Flight Diverted To Nagpur After Bomb Scare
NAGPUR -- A Mumbai-bound GoAir flight from Bhubaneshwar had to make an emergency landing on Saturday morning in Nagpur following a bomb scare. The passengers were deplaned immediately after the bomb...
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Rohith Vemula's Suicide: Modi Shedding Crocodile Tears, Says AAP
NEW DELHI -- Questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'late' reaction to the death of Rohit Vemula, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday accused the former of shedding 'crocodile tears and being in...
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Narendra Modi Declassifies 100 Files On Subhash Chandra Bose
NEW DELHI -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi today made public digital copies of 100 secret files relating to Subhash Chandra Bose on his 119th birth anniversary, which could throw some light on the...
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Thrown Out Of Hostel For Chanting Anti-Modi Slogans, Allege Dalit Students
Three Dalit students who had raised slogans against Narendra Modi when the Prime Minister had arrived at Lucknow's Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University to deliver the convocation address, later found that...
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