IANS Photos   By Puja Gupta    New Delhi, March 6 (IANSlife) Meghalaya - with its cotton clouds heaped just above your heads, carpets of green, rich valley floors and glistening fores

A tibetan woman waits to be hired by traders to clean up the freshly picked cordyceps at a cordyceps trade market in Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in China's western Qinghai province, June 10, 2019. REU

The Star Optimus, a hopper dredger vessel that belongs to Starhigh Asia Pacific, sits docked on the Salween river in Mawlamyine, Mon state, Myanmar September 18, 2019. Picture taken September 18, 2019. REUTERS/

 An internally displaced Syrian girl inspects outside from a broken window of a van in an IDP camp near Idlib, Syria February 27, 2020. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/File photo   IDLIB, Syria, March 3 (Re

New York, February 27 (IANS): There are hardly 400 of them left in the world and in a rare visual treat, a Sumatran tiger has been captured on a camera-trap study, giving hope that the critically enda

Sonbhadra, February 26 (IANS): Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh gained sudden prominence after news circulated that the area has a rich vein of gold. The Geological Survey of India (GSI), however,

Kanpur, February 17 (IANS): The Regional Pollution Control Board of Uttar Pradesh has ordered 248 tanneries in Jajmau area of Kanpur to stop their operations from February 19 till further orders, without a

A boy living on the street walks on a wall displaying publicity posters of Golden Globe award-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" as a train goes past in Mumbai January 22, 2009. REUTERS/Arko Datta  

Indigenous people are seen during a ceremony to mark one year of the disaster of the tailings dam owned by Brazilian mining company Vale SA in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais state, Brazil January 25, 2020. REUTERS/Cr

The sun rises over a smoldering landscape that was burned by a wildfire dubbed the Cave Fire, burning in the hills of Santa Barbara, California, U.S., November 26, 2019. REUTERS/David McNew   Popula

BY FRANK ISLAM IANS | February 11 In her marathon 2 hours and 46 minutes speech introducing India's 2020 budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman painted an optimistic picture of the Indian economy. She

By Zaffar Iqbal    Jammu, February 10 (IANS) The dossier providing grounds for booking Omar Abdullah under the PSA states that the capacity of the former Chief Minister to influence people for a

An iceberg floats close to Fournier Bay, Antarctica, February 3, 2020. Picture taken February 3, 2020. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino   GENEVA/BUENOS AIRES, February 8 (Reuters) - A research base in the An

By Anindya Banerjee    New Delhi, February 8 (IANS) With Delhi now having decided whom it wants to handover the baton to rule for the next five years, a loss to either the AAP or the BJP, will d

IANS Photo   By Puja Gupta    New Delhi, February 7 (IANSlife) Tourism New Zealand recently launched its newest campaign '100% Pure Welcome - 100% Pure New Zealand' in the national ca

A man shows the logo of a T-shirt that reads "Stop the Cut" referring to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) during a social event advocating against harmful practices such as FGM at the Imbirikani Girls High Schoo

New York, February 6 (IANS) The US Senate has acquitted President Donald Trump moving the acrid political battleground from the ornate chamber to the November election's squalid arena of rallies and social medi

BY RAHUL VATSA  IANS | February 5   Even when the Delhi elections were weeks away, many political experts had declared Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party the winner. As for the Bharatiya J

New Delhi, February 4 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal who became "giant killer" in 2013 assembly polls by defeating three time Chief Minister late Sheila Dikshit from New Delhi as

BY VISHAL GULATI    Chandigarh, February 2 (IANS) Rajiv Gandhi is perhaps the only Prime Minister through India's constitutional history who brought a dramatic paradigm change in the India story