KRAS bags $100 mn order for 1,000 Barak missiles

Hyderabad (IANS) Kalyani Rafael Advanced Systems (KRAS) on Thursday received a $100 million contract from top Israeli arms firm Rafael to supply 1,000 Barak-8 MRSAM missile kits for the Indian Army and Air Force.

KRAS, India's first private…

1 dead, 9 hospitalised after eating poisoned mutton in Gumla

Ranchi (IANS) One person died and nine were hospitalised after they consumed poisoned mutton in Jharkhand's Gumla district, police said on Thursday.

According to police, some people from Chapka Kathartoli village cooked a goat which had…

Congress walks out of Lok Sabha over Karnataka, Goa

New Delhi (IANS) Congress members on Thursday walked out of the Lok Sabha over the political situation in Karnataka and Goa where many of its MLAs have either quit the House or joined the BJP.

The House was plunged into uproar when a Congress…

SC asks Karnataka Speaker to decide on rebel MLAs today

New Delhi (IANS) The Supreme Court asked the rebel Congress MLAs of Karnataka to meet Assembly Speaker at 6 p.m. on Thursday regarding their resignations and said Speaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar should take the decision on the resignations on the day itself.

If mediation fails, day-to-day hearing in Ayodhya row: SC

New Delhi (IANS) If mediation fails, then the Supreme Court may begin day-to-day hearing in the Ayodhya dispute, said the apex court on Thursday while hearing an application filed by one of the parties representing the Hindu community.

The…

US House passes bill to cut green cards for Indian techies

New York (IANS) The US House of Representatives has passed a bill to help Indian technology professionals get their permanent residentship sooner by cutting short the decade-long wait they now endure, but it is facing an unexpected roadblock in the…

Karnataka BJP hopes Governor will ask CM to take floor test

Bengaluru (IANS) A restive BJP is hoping Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala would direct Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy to take the floor test in the Assembly on Friday to prove if he has majority after 16 legislators of the ruling allies resigned,…

Inducted into BJP, 10 Goa Congress' breakaway MLAs to meet Shah

Panaji (IANS) Hours after 10 Goa Congress MLAs split from the party and joined the BJP, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant late on Wednesday headed for the national capital, to introduce the newly inducted lawmakers to Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit…

Soft on Pakistan, UN report on Kashmir has discrepancies

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…

Railways plans to add 4 lakh berths by leaving power cars

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…