Rajnath to halt in Tehran, meet Iranian counterpart

New Delhi/Moscow (IANS) India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will make a stopover in Tehran and meet his Iranian counterpart, on his way back to India from Russia.

Rajnath Singh had gone to Moscow to participate in a joint meeting of…

Cong seeks restoration of Question Hour

New Delhi (IANS) The newly constituted parliamentary strategy group of the Congress has decided to raise the issue of dropping the Question Hour with the presiding officers of both the Houses. Leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad…

PM asks police to preserve humanitarian image built during pandemic

Hyderabad (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked the police force to safeguard and build on the humanitarian image they developed during Covid-19 pandemic.

Virtually addressing the probationers of Indian Police Service (IPS) passing…

India to deploy two towing vessels for blazing oil tanker

Chennai (IANS) The Union government has decided to deploy two emergency towing vessels to tow the very large crude carrier (VLCC) New Diamond on fire since Thursday morning 37 nautical miles off the Sri Lankan coast, the Indian Coast Guard said on…

Indian, Russian navies hold maritime exercise in Bay of Bengal

New Delhi (IANS) To boost mutual confidence and cooperation, a bilateral maritime exercise between the Indian Navy and the Russian Navy got underway in the Bay of Bengal on Friday. The exercise is taking place amid dispute over border issues between…

Chirag 'upset' with Manjhi's inclusion in NDA

Patna (IANS) : The inclusion of the Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) led by Jitan Ram Manjhi in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has invited the displeasure of alliance partner Lok Jan Shakti Party (LJP) it appears.

Chirag Paswan, the son…

Those who still have a grudge are free to talk to Sonia: Cong

New Delhi (IANS) More than a week after the letter bomb stoked a controversy in the Congress Working Committee meeting, where the dissenters were cornered by the loyalists, the issue has not died down as the dissenters are now speaking publicly. The…

China deploys 5 militia squads in Eastern Ladkah

New Delhi (IANS) China has deployed five militia squads for rapid response at the disputed Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh. It has done so to "consolidate the border" and "stabilise Tibet region", sources said.

"Militia is basically…

Andhra Pradesh decides to ban online gaming

Amaravati (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday decided to ban online gambling by making amendments to the AP Gaming Act, 1974.

Organisers of online gambling would get a jail term of one year along with a fine for first time offence.…

Twitter account of PM Modi's personal website hacked for Bitcoins

New Delhi (IANS) Twitter on Thursday said it has fixed the account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website that was briefly hacked and tweets related to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were posted on it.

Twitter said it has…