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  • Soldier, civilian killed in Pakistan ceasefire violation
      Jammu, August 12 (IANS) A woman and an army JCO were killed on Saturday in unprovoked breach of the LoC ceasefire by Pakistani soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, officials said.  
  • EVMs can be manipulated, says former Delhi Chief Secretary
        New Delhi, August 12 (IANS): Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) can be manipulated, says a new book by former Delhi Chief Secretary Omesh Saigal.   Saigal says that he had told the
  • Skirmish can't be ruled out between India, China: Former Army Chief
      New Delhi, August 12 (IANS): A full-fledged intense war between nuclear armed India and China is unlikely, but chances of a skirmish cannot be ruled out, former Army Chief General V.P. Malik said.
  • Modi govt making "hollow" and "false" promises: Rahul
      Raichur (Ktk), August 12 (PTI) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today hit out at the Modi government over farmer and unemployment issues, accusing it of making "hollow" and "false" promises". &
  • India's makeshift bridges
    A villager carrying a child uses a makeshift bamboo bridge to cross a flooded area in the Jorhat district in Assam, August 25, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer/Files [caption id="attachment_293657" align="aligncenter"
  • ‘Tobacco Free Living’
    Viswema, August 12 (MExN): Anti Tobacco Cell, KROS College in collaboration with Health and Family Welfare, Government of Nagaland organised Campaign for tobacco-free under the theme, ‘Tobacco Free Living
  • News in brief
    PDLSA opens Legal Aid Clinic at Chetheba Town   Phek, August 12 (MExN): With an aim to render free legal aid services, Phek District Legal Services Authority (PDLSA) opened a Legal Aid Clinic (LAC) a
  • ATMA Mkg conducts sensitization prog
    Mokokchung, August 12 (MExN): The Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA), Mokokchung has organized a two days sensitization programme on the centrally sponsored scheme “Support to State Extensio
  • KVK Tuensang conduct soil health camp
    Tuensang, August 12 (MExN): Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Tuensang conducted awareness cum soil health camp on August 8 at Chendang village. Chendang is one of the adopted villages of the KVK. Sixty one participants at
  • Gorakhpur hospital head suspended, CM blames children's deaths on lack of cleanliness
      Gorakhpur, August 12 (IANS) Under all-round attack, the Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday suspended the head of the hospital over the deaths of 63 children in five days, even as Chief Minister Yogi
  • Nitish govt to launch drive against child marriage
      Patna, August 12 (PTI) The Bihar government will launch a drive against child marriage and provide financial assistance for supplementary diet to pregnant women and new born children.   Thi
  • Jharkhand assembly passes anti-conversion, land bills
      Ranchi, August 12 (IANS) Amid protests by the opposition, the Jharkhand Assembly on Saturday passed the Religious Independence Bill, 2017, banning conversions, and an amendment to the Land Acquisition
  • Dalai Lama cancels Botswana visit 'due to exhaustion'
      GABORONE, August 12 (Reuters) - Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has cancelled a planned visit to Botswana because of exhaustion, his office said, a move that is likely to be welcomed by
  • Eleven dead in Kenya as post-election riots flare
      NAIROBI/KISUMU, Kenya, August 12 (Reuters) - Kenyan police killed at least 11 people in a crackdown on protests as anger at the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta erupted in the western city of K
  • Minutes from missiles, Guam islanders get to grips with uncertain fate
      GUAM, August 12 (Reuters) - Fourteen minutes is not long to prepare for a potential catastrophe.   That's the estimated time taken from a launch of a mid-range ballistic missile in North Ko
  • Bolt leads Jamaica into final, U.S. run year's fastest time
      LONDON, August 12 (Reuters) - Usain Bolt, running the penultimate race of his career, led Jamaica safely through their semi-final in the 4x100 metres relay at the World Athletics Championships on Satu
  • True independence means a sustainable, holistic India
      By Anil K. Rajvanshi IANS | August 12, 2017   My father went to jail in the 1942 Quit India movement. He was interned for 2.5 years in Delhi and Lucknow jails and was released in 1946.
  • Feelers sent out to insurgents in Manipur: CM
      Imphal, August 12 (IANS) Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh has welcomed talks between leaders of former militant groups with New Delhi's interlocutor. He also said feelers had been sent out to ins
  • Shutdown in Kashmir to protect Article 35A
      Srinagar, August 12 (IANS) Life across the Kashmir Valley and parts of the Jammu region was on Saturday adversely affected due to a shutdown called to protect Article 35A that gives special rights to
  • Global cues, foreign fund outflows drag equity indices to 5-week lows
      Mumbai, August 12 (IANS) The key Indian equity indices -- the Sensex and the Nifty50 -- dived into the bearish zone and settled at their five-week lows, as global cues, a bulk of quarterly earnings an
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