Cancer will kill 5.5 million women - about the population of Denmark - per year by 2030, a near 60-per cent increase in less than two decades, a repor...
The Members of Parliament can soon expect a steep hike in salary as the Centre has decided to give a 100 percent raise, taking their basic pay from Rs...
A delegation level meeting of fishermen associations of India and Sri Lanka is scheduled to be held in New Delhi today. An 11-member delegation of Sri...
The Supreme Court has ruled that election of a candidate could be set aside for making false declaration on educational qualifications in the nominati...
President Pranab Mukherjee will embark on a three-day state visit to Nepal today. This is the first visit by an Indian head of the state in 18 years t...
As many as 6.54 crore people in the age group of 5-19 years in the country have never attended any school while another 4.49 crore have dropped out of...
A 19-year-old girl has been killed and two civilians have been injured as Pakistan Rangers violated the ceasefire in Nowshera, Arnia and Ramgarh secto...
Jammu and Kashmir High Court has directed the State Government to take effective measures to protect school buildings in Kashmir valley.Taking suo mot...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate Chhattisgarh's 16th state foundation day celebrations in Naya Raipur today. On the occasion, he will also...
Police killed eight suspected members of the banned Students Islamic Federation of India (SIMI) in Madhya Pradesh in an encounter on Monday, hours aft...
In Colombia, the fossil of a gargantuan snake has stunned scientists, forcing them to rethink the nature of prehistoric lifeIn the lowland tropics of ...
Normal life remained affected in Kashmir for the 115th consecutive day on Monday due to the separatist-sponsored strike over the recent civilian killi...
A high alert has been sounded today following a jail break by eight SIMI activists in Bhopal, even as the Union Home Ministry sought a report from the...
Eight SIMI terrorists have escaped from Bhopal central jail in Madhya Pradesh. They killed a security guard during the incident last night. State Home...
Multi-million-dollar investment in technology, new initiatives for tourism, a focus on manufacturing, reducing the number of foreign workers, and addi...
A UN General Assembly committee has adopted a resolution to launch negotiations next year on a new treaty outlawing nuclear weapons, even as India a...
A Delhi court has sent Shoaib Hasan, the third accused arrested in connection with the alleged Pakistan espionage case, to an 11-day police custody....
The Centre would soon open 300 pharmacy AMRIT outlets in different parts of the country to provide affordable medicines to the people at a discount ...
The new law to prohibit benami transactions will come into effect from 1st of next month. Parliament had passed the Benami Transactions (Prohibition...
Authorities today imposed curfew in parts of Srinagar in view of the separatists' call for a march to the historic Jamia Masjid here ahead of Friday p...
Women across the world work on average 39 more days a year than men, with females in India working over 50 days extra compared to their male counterpa...
A man in Kuwait almost ended up going to jail after the family parrot accidentally exposed his alleged affair with the housemaid as it mimicked flirta...
The Union Cabinet today gave in-principle approval to Niti Aayog's proposal for strategic sale of over a dozen public sector undertakings (PSUs). ...
Pakistani troops resorted to heavy shelling in Hiranagar and Samba sectors along the International Border and Pallanwala sector of Jammu district and ...
Pakistan today declared an Indian High Commission official Surjeet Singh as persona non-grata and asked him to leave the country within 48 hours.The m...
Jammu and Kashmir has the highest life expectancy, except life expectancy at birth, surpassing Kerala, which topped the list till 2010, according to t...
India today pushed for more focus on traditional military-to-military cooperation with Russia. It also called for enhancing pace and depth of exchange...
Pakistan forces resorted to heavy shelling in R.S. Pura and Samba sectors of Jammu district today. According to Defence sources, Pakistani Rangers sta...
India was today ranked low at 87th place globally in terms of gender equality despite a jump of 21 places from last year largely due to progress on th...
Salary of President and Vice-President may go up to three times as the Union Home Ministry has prepared a proposal for raising the emoluments of the c...
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