DUTTA NAGAR, India, August 17 (Reuters) - Until late March, Ashish Kumar was helping to make plastic boxes for Ferrero Rocher praline chocolates and the plastic spoons tucked inside Kinder Joy eggs to scoo
When the court is getting ready to open, why should exams be postponed, observes SC
New Delhi, August17 (IANS): The Supreme Court Monday said life should move on even in COVID-19 times and declin
New Delhi, August 17 (IANS): Engaged with India at their border in eastern Ladakh, China is, at the same time, helping Pakistan to enhance its firepower by selling to it state-of-the-art defence items. Intellig
Srinagar, August 17 (IANS): With the killing of a second militant, the number of terrorists killed in the ongoing encounter in north Kashmir's Baramulla is two now, officials said.
Earlier, two CRPF pers
New Delhi, August 17 (IANS): With no written communication so far from the central government, officials of the two parliamentary secretariats are not yet sure of the date for the commencement of Parliament'
New Delhi, August 17 (IANS): Batting for indigenisation, Indian Army Vice Chief Lieutenant General S K Saini said on Monday that during crisis situations, technologies developed by other countries would either
New Delhi, August 17 (PTI): The Bihar government on Monday extended the lockdown till September 6 in view of the prevailing COVID-19 situation in the state, as per a notification. The decision was taken at a me
New Delhi, August 17 (IANS): China has given 12.7 lakh Nepalese rupees to a Kathmandu-based NGO to carry out a study on what motivates Gorkha community members to join the Indian Army.
Sources said that in t
New Delhi, August 17 (IANS): China is helping Pakistan to boost its firepower by selling it state-of-the-art defence items, including armed drones, even as it is engaged with India at the borders in eastern Lad
Panaji, August 17 (IANS): The arrest of Kapil Jhaveri, a small-time Bollywood actor and a director of a co-operative society, during a rave party at a North Goa beach village on Sunday, has become a cause of em
New Delhi, August 17 (IANS): China has deployed high altitude artillery guns in Tibet amid the ongoing border tension with India in eastern Ladakh.
"The artillery guns, at an altitude of 4,600 meters, a
New Delhi, August 17 (PTI): The condition of former President Pranab Mukherjee continues to be critical and he is on ventilator support, the Army's Research and Referral hospital said on Monday.
Doctors
New Delhi, August 17 (IANS) India's novel coronavirus tally crossed the 26-lakh mark on Monday with 57,981 new cases in 24 hours, while the death toll climbed to 50,921 with 941 more fatalities, said the He
New Delhi, August 16 (IANS): In what appears to be a case of Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad calling former Congress President Rahul Gandhi a "loser", the war of words between the Congress and
New Delhi, August 16 (IANS): In what can be a matter of concern, India has left the US and Brazil behind, as far as its seven-day average of daily new coronavirus cases are concerned. Since the pandemic broke o
New Delhi, August 16 (IANS): Accusing the BJP and the RSS of controlling Facebook and WhatsApp in India, the Congress on Sunday alleged that the two had attacked democracy in the country and demanded a Joint Pa
Lucknow, August 16 (IANS): The Uttar Pradesh government has extended, by three months, the detention of doctor Kafeel Khan under the National Security Act (NSA) for his alleged provocative speech during the ant
New Delhi, August 16 (IANS): While restrictions on movements and lockdowns in most parts of the country have been eased, health experts have stressed that the threat of coronavirus has increased and people need
New Delhi, August 16 (PTI): India's COVID-19 tally increased to 25,89,682 with a single-day spike of 63,490 cases, while the total number of recoveries rose to 18,62,258 pushing the recovery rate to 71.91 p
New Delhi, August 15 (ANI): Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday lauded the soldiers, healthcare workers, farmers and labourers across the country on the occasion of the 74th Independenc