NORMAL life in Kashmir remained disturbed for the 79th day on Tuesday following abrogation of Article 370, but there was increased movement of traffic in parts of the city leading to massive traffic snarls. Markets and other business establishments opened early in the morning but downed their shutters at around…
TAKING forward his Tamil pitch, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday released a Tamil translation of his poem on his conversation with the ocean at Mamallapuram during his recent visit for the informal summit with Chinese President Xi Jingping. The Prime Minister, who donned a 'veshti,' (dhoti) and a shawl…
AN INDIA-UK joint research collaboration has yielded a robot that encourages kids to wash their hands at a remote primary school in southern India. The hand-shaped robot, dubbed ‘Pepe’, is the product of a collaboration between researchers from the University of Glasgow and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University in India. Pepe…
BRITISH police service on Monday (21) said it had shut down two sophisticated criminal call centres in India’s Kolkata, instrumental in defrauding thousands of victims in the UK alone, with the cooperation of local police. The call centres were raided by 50 officers from the Cyber Division of Kolkata Police…
AS India has emerged as the one of the fastest growing civil aviation markets of the world, it is time that the government take steps to make the aviation sector globally competitive beginning with reduction on its tax structure, the head of a low-cost airline has said. Ajay Singh, Chairman…
AS polling is underway in Maharashtra and Haryana on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to come out in large numbers to cast vote and enrich the "festival of democracy". Besides the two states, assembly bypolls are underway in 51 seats and Lok Sabha by-elections in two constituencies across…
INDIA on Monday slammed Pakistan for unilaterally stopping postal mail service between the two nations, saying the move was in contravention of international norms. Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Pakistan resorted to the move without giving any prior notice to India. "Pakistan's decision is directly in contravention of international…
THE Pakistan military has rejected as "false" the Indian Army's assertion that it targeted at least three terror camps in PoK and said India is welcome to take any foreign diplomat or media to the site to "prove" its claim on the ground. Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat said…
DESCRIBING Pakistan as the "epicentre" of global terrorism, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav on Monday said India's neighbour is now not only its problem but has become a "global challenge". Madhav said the democratic world should come together and pursue Pakistan to act again terrorism, which has become a global…
TAKING a dig at the BJP, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday described the BJP's candidate from Haryana's Assandh as the "most honest man" in the ruling party after a video went viral in which he is purportedly heard saying no matter which button is pressed on the EVM, the…