In a bid to ease tensions after a bitter month long diplomatic row over the arrest of an Indian diplomat, US Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns hosted Indian Ambassador S. Jaishankar for a “productive lunch meeting.” At Tuesday’s meeting at the State Department, Burns and Jaishankar “affirmed the importance of the US-India strategic […]
At least three people were killed and over a dozen injured in a stampede at a fair in Bihar’s Banka district, police said Wednesday. A local police official has been suspended and a probe ordered into the incident. “Preliminary inquiry suggests that the stampede was caused after either a clash between two groups or rumours […]
In the wake of the worst diplomatic spat with India over the arrest of an Indian diplomat for allegedly underpaying her nanny, the White House has come out with a strategic action plan for human trafficking “victims”. The plan does not name Devyani Khobragade, India’s then consul general in New York, but it does address […]
A 51-year-old Danish woman was robbed and raped by eight men near the New Delhi railway station, police said Wednesday. The woman, who came to India Jan 1, had gone to visit a museum Tuesday morning but lost her way to her hotel in Paharganj, a tourist hub in the heart of Delhi. Around 4 […]
A section of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s family Tuesday hit out at the West Bengal government for carrying out renovation work unilaterally at the family’s ancestral home in South 24 Parganas district’s Kodalia. “Extensive changes including destruction of the boundary wall have been carried out, as discovered by family members who visited (the house) on […]
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will officially inaugurate an additional one million sq. ft. of space at the Technopark Phase III here Wednesday, making it the country’s largest such IT facility with a built-up area of 7.2 million sq.ft. The new twin-tower campus, developed in 92 acres of land has been named Ganga and Yamuna. […]
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Tuesday said the Geneva nuclear deal broke the sanction regime which had been unfairly imposed on his nation. Rouhani made the remarks two days after Iran and the six major powers agreed to start implementing their landmark nuclear deal from Jan 20, Xinhua reported. The Geneva deal means the six major […]
Eight students with engineering background have scored 100 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT) results declared Tuesday for admission to India’s top B-schools, an official said. “The eight are all boys with an engineering background,” CAT convenor Rohit Kapoor told IANS. There are 10 who have scored 99.99 percentile, one of whom is a […]
Indian and Pakistan soldiers on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday greeted each other on the occasion of Milad-un-Nabi or the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammed, a defence spokesman said. “A flag meeting between Indian and Pakistan soldiers was held in the Kargil sector of the LoC in Ladakh region today […]
The framework for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project is being readied on a fast-track basis by the four stakeholder nations, Indian Petroleum Minister M. Veerappa Moily said Tuesday. “Apart from gas, this TAPI pipeline would usher in peace among the nations as well. The gas is expected to reach the border of India by August […]