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‘Govt will invest Rs 8.5 lakh cr in railways in 5 yrs’

Mumbai, July 17 (PTI): Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu today said the Railways is in an overhauling phase and its network will be transformed completely in next five years. With the stress on Rail Badhhega- Desh

/ 17th July 2017
9/11 survivors at risk of heart attack and lung disease, says Study

New York, July 17 (IANS): People who were exposed to the dust cloud or sustained physical injuries during the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, may be at an increased long-term

/ 17th July 2017
Kovind vs Meira: Presidential contest sees near 100% voting

New Delhi, July 17 (IANS) Lawmakers across India voted on Monday to elect the country's 14th President in a contest in which the ruling NDAs candidate Ram Nath Kovind has an overwhelming edge over opposition-ba

/ 17th July 2017
Venkaiah Naidu is NDA's Vice President pick

New Delhi, July 17 (IANS) Information and Broadcasting Minister and senior BJP leader M. Venkaiah Naidu was on Monday chosen as the ruling NDA's candidate for the August 5 Vice Presidential election, bringing t

/ 17th July 2017
Rijiju to talk to Tripura tribal party on separate state

Agartala, July 17 (IANS) Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday informed Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar that he will hold talks with a tribal party on Tuesday regarding the demand for a separate tribal stat

/ 17th July 2017
Two die in border firing as India, Pakistan militaries maintain tough posture

New Delhi/Jammu, July 17 (IANS) The armies of India and Pakistan on Monday warned each other of retaliation against any military aggression along the Line of Control (LoC) as border tension escalated after a fi

/ 17th July 2017
Britain's young royals begin tour of Poland and Germany

WARSAW, July 17 (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William took his young family to Warsaw on Monday for a four-day tour of Poland and Germany that will take in World War Two memorials and meetings with locals. &n

/ 17th July 2017
Exclusive: Islamic State's Baghdadi almost certainly alive - Kurdish security official

SULAIMANIA, Iraq, July 17 (Reuters) - A top Kurdish counter-terrorism official said on Monday he was 99 percent sure that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was alive and located south of the Syrian city

/ 17th July 2017
Myanmar insists no North Korea links as U.S. envoy visits

YANGON, July 17 (Reuters) - Myanmar has no military ties with North Korea, a Myanmar official said on Monday, as a U.S. diplomat responsible for North Korea arrived for talks in which he was likely to seek assu

/ 17th July 2017
'Every organisation will go digital by 2030'

New Delhi, July 17 (IANS) By 2030, every organisation will be a digital organisation and businesses need to start thinking now about how to become future-proof in their infrastructure and India is not an except

/ 17th July 2017
GST Council may go for more rate revisions

New Delhi, July 17 (IANS) The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on Monday evening will hold a meeting through video-conferencing to discuss some rate revisions "which need urgent attention". The

/ 17th July 2017
Amid row with India, Chinese Army holds live-fire drill in Tibet

Beijing, July 17 (IANS) Amid the continuing border stand-off with India, China has conducted a live-fire drill in Tibet in what one observer said was a likely warning to New Delhi. A fully-staffed

/ 17th July 2017
Meira vs Kovind: Lawmakers vote to elect India's 14th President

New Delhi, July 17 (IANS) Lawmakers across India voted on Monday to elect the country's 14th President with Union Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu declaring that ruling NDA candidate Ram Nath Kovind would win with a

/ 17th July 2017
Thailand's king given full control of crown property

BANGKOK, July 17 (Reuters) - Thailand has amended a royal property law to formally give King Maha Vajiralongkorn full control of the agency which manages the multi-billion dollar holdings of the monarchy. &n

/ 17th July 2017
Israeli "counter-terrorism boot camp" a tourist attraction in occupied West Bank

GUSH ETZION SETTLEMENT, West Bank, July 17 (Reuters) - Taking in the scene of a simulated fruit market in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, a group of tourists ponders whether a poster-size figur

/ 17th July 2017
19 die daily in drink-driving mishaps - here's how that can change

By Devanik Saha IANS | IndiaSpend Indias daily drink-driving death toll of 19 could be reduced if police checking is made unpredictable to drivers who currently know where to expect checks, a new collaborat

/ 17th July 2017
80,000 children 'wasting' from hunger in Myanmar: UN

Yangon, July 17 (IANS) Over 80,000 children under the age of five living in Muslim-majority areas of western Myanmar are "wasting" and will need treatment for acute malnutrition over the next year, the World Fo

/ 17th July 2017
A child and soldier killed in Pakistan shelling on LoC

Jammu, July 17 (IANS) A five-year-old girl and a soldier were killed on Monday as Pakistani troops shelled and fired along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, the state police said. The

/ 17th July 2017
MPs, MLAs vote to elect 14th President of India

New Delhi, July 17 (IANS) Parliamentarians and legislators across India began voting on Monday to elect the country's 14th President in what is a direct contest between ruling NDA candidate Ram Nath Kovind and

/ 17th July 2017
Trump attacks media for coverage of Russia case

New York, July 17 (IANS) US President Donald Trump once again attacked the media on Sunday for what he calls its fake news, this time for disparaging his son, Donald Trump Jr., in their coverage of the Russia c

/ 17th July 2017