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  • BTS' Not Today MV gets fierce
    Fans upset over Jin's lack of screen time   Korean boy band BTS, also known as Bangtan Boys, needs no introduction. The team has now released the MV for their next single "Not Today."   Bill
    / 21st February 2017
  • One million bankers to strike work on February 28
    Chennai, February 21 (IANS): Around one million bankers will go on strike on February 28 following the failure of conciliation talks between the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) and the management, a union le
    / 21st February 2017
  • PM Modi urges U.S. to keep an open mind on visas for skilled workers
    NEW DELHI, February 21 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the United States on Tuesday to keep an open mind on admitting skilled Indian workers, in comments that pushed back against Republican Presi
    / 21st February 2017
  • Democratic Socialists make headway in U.S. after Trump's win
    DETROIT, February 21 (Reuters) - For David Green, head of the Detroit chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Donald Trump's victory in November was both distressing and cause for optimism in his
    / 21st February 2017
  • Rapist of Nagaland woman arrested
    New Delhi, February 21 (IANS) Police on Tuesday said they had arrested a man on charges of raping a woman from Nagaland over the weekend near a popular hangout in south Delhi.   Deputy Commissioner o
    / 21st February 2017
  • 5 die as plane crashes into a Melbourne mall
    SYDNEY, February 21 (Reuters): A pilot and four American passengers were killed on Tuesday when a small plane crashed in to the roof of a shopping mall after taking off from an airfield outside Melbourne, Austr
    / 21st February 2017
  • PDP minister back, crisis far from over
    Jammu, February 21 (IANS) Although one of the two PDP ministers who quit has rejoined office and the other has promised to do so soon, the crisis persists in Jammu and Kashmir's main ruling party.  
    / 21st February 2017
  • Ivanka Trump calls for religious tolerance
    Washington, February 21 (IANS) Ivanka Trump, US President Donald Trump's oldest daughter and a Jewish convert, has issued a statement on Twitter calling for "religious tolerance" after a wave of threats against
    / 21st February 2017
  • e-payment reward: 10 lakh users get Rs 153.5 crore
    New Delhi, February 21 (IANS) The government has given over Rs 153.5 crore reward money to nearly 10 lakh citizens under its scheme to incentivise digital payments and make India a less cash economy, NITI Aayog
    / 21st February 2017
  • Anti-Trump rallies crop up again on 'Not My President's Day'
    NEW YORK/CHICAGO, February 21 (Reuters) - Renewed protests against U.S. President Donald Trump flared on the Presidents Day holiday on Monday, with grassroots activists vowing to take to the streets in dozens o
    / 21st February 2017
  • Manipur Deputy CM escapes militant attack
    Imphal, February 21 (IANS) Manipur Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam on Tuesday escaped an attack on his life by a tribal militant outfit in Tamenglong district.   The ambush was reported at 10.30 a.m
    / 21st February 2017
  • India keen to take down Australia for perfect end to season
    NEW DELHI, February 21 (Reuters) - The Indian test juggernaut, with Virat Kohli at the wheel, has crushed almost everything in its path over the last 18 months and Australia will have to conjure up something sp
    / 21st February 2017
  • U.N. says 1.4 million children at imminent risk of death in famines
    GENEVA, February 21 (Reuters) - Nearly 1.4 million children are at "imminent risk" of death in famines in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said on Tuesday.  
    / 21st February 2017
  • Reliance Jio to offer bargain rates, crosses 100 million customers
    MUMBAI, February 21 (Reuters) - Reliance Industries' Jio telecoms unit will charge a tariff for its services from April, but will offer sharp discounts for a year to those who sign up by the end of March, billi
    / 21st February 2017
  • ASEAN unsettled by China weapon systems, tension in South China Sea
    BORACAY, Philippines, February 21 (Reuters) - Southeast Asian countries see China's installation of weapons systems in the South China Sea as "very unsettling" and have urged dialogue to stop an escalation of "
    / 21st February 2017
  • Tata Sons' new chairman to focus on shareholder returns, capital allocation
    NEW DELHI, February 21 (Reuters) - Tata Sons, the holding company of the $100-billion Tata group, will focus on boosting shareholder returns and tightening capital allocation rules, newly-appointed chairman Nat
    / 21st February 2017
  • France's Le Pen cancels meet with Lebanon grand mufti over headscarf
    BEIRUT, February 21 (Reuters) - French far-right National Front presidential candidate Marine Le Pen canceled a meeting on Tuesday with Lebanon's grand mufti, its top cleric for Sunni Muslims, after refusing to
    / 21st February 2017
  • China says N. Korean coal ban shows its sincerity on U.N. resolutions
    BEIJING, February 21 (Reuters) - China's suspension of imports of North Korean coal shows it is sincere about implementing U.N. Security Council resolutions punishing North Korea over its nuclear weapons and mi
    / 21st February 2017
  • Xinjiang to track vehicles as an anti-terror measure
    BEIJING, February 21 (Reuters): Chinese authorities have ordered all motor vehicles in Bayingol prefecture in far-western Xinjiang to be installed with mandatory satellite tracking devices, the latest tough ant
    / 21st February 2017
  • FARC rebels to start disarmament process
    BOGOTA, February 21 (Reuters): Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels can begin surrendering their weapons to the United Nations now that almost 7,000 of them have reached designated demobilization zones around the cou
    / 21st February 2017
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