Indian Death Toll In Haj Tragedy Rises To 35
At least 35 Indians have lost their lives to the tragic stampede outside the holy city of Mecca that killed at least 769 people and injured 860 others, confirmed the Indian ministry of external affairs...
View ArticleThe Morning Wrap: Centre Moots Gun Licences With Lifetime Validity; RSS...
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View ArticleIndian Railways And Google Will Collaborate To Provide Wi-Fi At 500 Railway...
SAN JOSE -- Google will collaborate with Indian Railways to provide wi-fi services at 500 stations by next year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced today as he visited the headquarters of the...
View ArticlePM Narendra Modi Gets Emotional At Facebook HQ As He Recalls His Childhood...
MENLO PARK, California -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a warm welcome at Facebook headquarters on Sunday for a town hall hosted by CEO Mark Zuckerberg that focused as much on the two men's...
View ArticlePrime Minister Narendra Modi Takes A Dig At The 'Damaad' Again At San Jose
SAN JOSE — In a veiled attack on the corruption during UPA regime and a barb at the Congress President's son-in-law Robert Vadra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today deprecated the culture of graft in...
View ArticleASTROSAT, India's First Dedicated Satellite For Astronomical Research, Takes Off
SRIHARIKOTA, Andhra Pradesh -- India's first dedicated satellite for astronomical research, ASTROSTAT, blasted off from here at exactly 10 am on Monday. The 44.4 metres-tall polar satellite launch...
View ArticleRSS Wants To Know: Do You Want To Educate Your Child In Her Mother Tongue Or...
Furthering its quest to "Indianise" the education system, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has circulated a questionnaire in schools across the country, which asks parents whether junk food hurdles...
View ArticleGovt. Proposes Independent Panel To Decide MPs' Pay And Perks
NEW DELHI -- Amid demands that Members of Parliament (MPs) should not be allowed to decide their salaries, the government has proposed to set up a three-member panel to recommend pay and perks of...
View ArticleLawyer Held In Delhi Mall For Filming Upskirt Videos With Spy Cam In Shoes
NEW DELHI-- Sometimes, the sting in the tale lies in the lace. A 34-year-old corporate lawyer has been arrested for allegedly taking obscene pictures of women with a spy cam fitted to one of his shoes...
View ArticleFor Mangalyaan Birthday, ISRO Boffins Get Sneak Screening Of Matt Damon's...
More than 600 scientists and their families from ISRO's Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad, watched Ridley Scott's upcoming film The Martian on Saturday, to celebrate the first anniversary of the...
View Article'Quantico' Reviews: Priyanka Chopra Gets Near-Unanimous Praise For Her TV Debut
The pilot episode for the much-awaited ABC TV drama Quantico premiered in the United States on Sunday. Part of a slew of new shows constituting this year's fall line-up, the show has attracted...
View Article13 Year Old Noida Boy Receives State Support For Education Thanks To...
NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh -- A 13-year-old boy, forced to sit on a pavement in Noida in Uttar Pradesh and earn money to pay for his school supplies, will no longer be bogged down with these concerns. Such...
View ArticleWith Astrosat In Place, India Has Its Own 'Hubble' In Space
SRIHARIKOTA -- Country's first dedicated satellite for astronomical research, Astrosat, was successfully launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre today here in Bengaluru at 10 a.m. With several...
View ArticleBoat With 200 People Aboard Capsizes In Assam
An overcrowded mechanised boat carrying nearly 200 people today capsized in River Kolohi in Assam's Kamrup district. The details on the casualty is not known yet, and there are no reports yet on any...
View ArticleIndia To Pay Iran $700 Million For Outstanding Oil Dues
India will make a $700 million oil payment to Iran on Wednesday, sources said, the first release of such funds after the July deal that sets the roadmap for the lifting of sanctions aimed at Tehran's...
View ArticleIs Ankit Fadia Modi Government's Idea Of A 'Techie Achiever'?
Ankit Fadia, a self-proclaimed "ethical hacker" and a person who has been repeatedly outed for making false claims and plagiarising, has been picked as a brand ambassador of the 'Digital India'...
View ArticleMetalhead Nepali Was Pivotal To NASA's Find Of Water On Mars
Twenty-five-year old Lujendra Ojha may have just become Nepal's greatest scientist. The aspirant geo-scientist, who's yet to formally become a bonafide researcher and still pursuing doctoral studies at...
View ArticleObama, Modi Agree On 'Uncompromising' Commitment To Fight Climate Change At UN
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday praised India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his commitment to clean energy and said Indian leadership on climate change would be critical for decades to come....
View ArticleChanging Facebook DP Into Digital India Tricolour Doesn't Automatically...
Indian social media has been fire since Monday morning, after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed his DP to add the Indian tricolour tint, much like the gay pride tint that went viral when the US...
View ArticleWhy Should You Never Come In Between Prime Minister Modi And A Camera? Just...
We all know Narendra Modi loves the camera. He has selfies at almost every event, proving that he is anything but camera shy. From this footage, it appears that the Indian Prime Minister clearly won't...
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