Agra (IANS) The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has begun extensive repair work on one of the four minarets of the iconic 17th century monument of love, the Taj Mahal.
The ASI has undertaken the exercise after reports of damage and…
Bengaluru (IANS) The opposition BJP is awaiting a Supreme Court ruling on the petitions of the 10 rebel Congress-JD-S MLAs and the Karnataka Assembly Speaker on their resignations for its next move against the coalition government in the 10-day monsoon…
New Delhi (IANS) Author-diplomat Vikas Swarup, India's current High Commissioner to Canada, has been appointed as Secretary in the Consular, Passport, Visa and Overseas Indian Affairs division, with effect from August 1.
According to a…
New Delhi (IANS) Governments much publicised Swachh Bharat Mission aiming to enhance the level of sanitation in India and make the country open defecation free (ODF) seems to be on its way out making way as other important schemes on solid waste…
Ranchi (IANS) Maoists on Friday set ablaze 16 vehicles at a railway siding and also assaulted six labourers in Jharkhand's Latehar district, according to police.
The Maoists who carried out the arson belonged to the Jharkhand Janmukti Parisad,…
Ranchi (IANS) The Jharkhand High Court on Friday granted bail to RJD chief Lalu Prasad in a fodder scam case related to fraudulent withdrawal of funds from the Deoghar treasury, however, he will remain in jail in two other cases related to the scam.
…Ranchi: Assuring all possible help to the youth hailing from tribal, dalit and backward communities Chief Minister Raghubar Das has said that youth from the ST-SC community who would be setting up industries in the state they would be provided a rebate.
…Bijnor (IANS) Six persons have been arrested after the police raided a madrasa in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor district and recovered weapons.
According to sources, the police had received a tip-off after which the raid was carried…
New Delhi (IANS) The Indian Railways which carries over 12 lakh passengers every day, aims to provide four lakh more berths for passengers every day from October when it will adopt the technology to generate power from the locomotives instead…
New Delhi (IANS) The latest UN human rights report on Jammu and Kashmir, slammed by India as a "continuation of the earlier false and motivated narrative", has several discrepancies that show up on closer reading and contradicts…