As the annual pilgrimage of Shiva devotees -- Kanwar Yatra -- hits its peak celebrations in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the all important national Highway connecting Delhi and Dehradun has been closed from early on Friday....
State-owned telecom companies are incurring losses in providing high-speed Wi-Fi connections to members of Parliament, Union Minister for Communications and Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad said....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday shared pictures from from his visit to Kargil during the 1999 India-Pakistan war. As a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker in Kashmir, Modi had visited Kargil to express solidarity with the troops there. Sharing the photos on Twitter on Kargil Victory Day, Modi wrote: "During the ...
President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday paid tributes to the Kargil War martyrs at the Martyrs' Memorial inside the headquarters of Army's 15 Corps here. President Kovind laid a wreath at the Martyrs' Memorial inside the Badami Bagh headquarters. He also signed the visitor's register at the Memorial....
Outgoing Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday met members of former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who passed away on July 20 at age 81. Gandhi, who was abroad, arrived in India on Thursday. On Friday morning, he reached Dikshit's residence in Nizamuddin area and met ...
While Andhra Pradesh has passed a bill marking 75 per cent reservation in jobs for locals in the private sector, its sibling Telangana has no such proposal, though the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government is encouraging the private players to recruit more locals by offering them incentives....
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader B.S. Yeddyurappa will take oath as Karnataka chief minister on Friday evening after he staked claim to form the new government with Governor Vajubhai Vala at the Raj Bhavan here. "As the Governor has permitted our party (BJP) to form the government, I will ...
Culture and Tourism Minister Prahlad Singh Patel on Friday urged the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to include monuments pre-dating 500 years in its list of protected monuments and said he is "not allergic to anybody's history and bravery" but to "bury someone underneath is also not acceptable"....
Since Narendra Modi was first elected Prime Minister in May 2014, there has been a perceptible shift in India's approach towards the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. For centuries, though, the Arabian Peninsula figured prominently in India's social, cultural and economic dimensions, Riyadh's importance in the...
The Indian Army on Friday commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Kargil War to remember the valour of the soldiers who took part in Operation Vijay. ...
