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
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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
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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
The Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, . Nirmala Sitharaman departs from North Block to Rashtrapati Bhavan and Parliament House, along with the Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs
Vijay Nazirkar, a farmer, cuts partially destroyed sugarcane to be used as fodder for his cattle at a village in Pune, India, September 15, 2015. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
Last year, the Supreme Cour
By VEDANK SINGH
IANS
So the Wuhan coronavirus has now spread to all 31 regions of China with around 7,800 confirmed cases till Thursday. There are 17 more countries where at least one confirmed case h
By Anindya Banerjee
New Delhi, January 31 (IANS) From leaving a job at the Bihar State Electricity Board for his socialist ideals to booting out Prashant Kishor and Pawan Verma, on January 29