Chennai/Kurnool (Andhra Pradesh), A tearful final farewell was given on Tuesday to four soldiers from Tamil Nadu and one from Andhra Pradesh who were buried alive in an avalanche on the hostile Siachen glacier on February 3. All of them belonged to the Madras Regiment and their last rites were performed with full military honours. […]
New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Reserve Bank of India to furnish a list of companies which are in default of loans by banks and financial institutions in excess of Rs.500 crore or whose loans have been restructured under corporate debts restructuring scheme. While asking the RBI to file an affidavit, a […]
New Delhi, The BJP on Tuesday won four seats and the Congress two as the ruling NDA bettered the opposition in by-elections for 12 seats held across eight states three days ago. Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) was the worst sufferer. The SP lost two of the three seats it held in Uttar Pradesh […]
New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Friday refused to put on hold criminal proceedings against Congress president Sonia Gandhi, vice president Rahul Gandhi and others in the National Herald case but expunged all adverse observations, inferences and conclusions by the high court. A bench of Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice C. Nagappan also exempted […]
Mumbai, Pakistani-American terrorist-turned-approver David Coleman Headley on Friday said the global terror network Al Qaeda wanted to attack India’s National Defence College in New Delhi as he also revealed a medley of Lashkar-e-Taiba plans to strike terror in the country. Headley, who has been testifying through video-conferencing since Monday before a special court in Mumbai […]
Mumbai, Less-than-expected earning results, combined with negative European indices and a weak rupee dragged the Indian equity markets to their lowest levels in over 21 months on Thursday. Bearish sentiments led a barometer index of the Indian equity markets to provisionally close the day’s trade down 807 points. Indian equity markets continued to decline for […]
New Delhi, The odd-even traffic scheme aimed at curbing pollution will be back in Delhi from April 15 to 30, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Thursday. He told a news conference that this was decided following feedback from the people of Delhi in the wake of the January 1-15 experiment which he and his […]
Mumbai, Pakistani-American terrorist-turned approver David Coleman Headley said on Thursday that Ishrat Jahan was a member of the women wing of terror outfit Laskhar-e-Taiba. “Jahan was a LeT member,” Headley said while deposing before special TADA Judge A. Sanap. Headley claimed that the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attack, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi informed him about […]
New Delhi, Lance Naik Hanumanthappa Koppad, who was rescued alive after being buried under snow for six days in the world’s highest battlefield, the Siachen glacier, died on Thursday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said: “Proud that martyrs like you served India.” Lance Naik Koppad, 33, was flown down to the Army Hospital (Research and Referral), […]
Today The Hon. Josh Frydenberg, Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia co-chaired the Australia India Energy Security Dialogue in Canberra with the Indian Minister for Coal, Power and New and Renewable Energy, Mr Piyush Goyal. The meeting provided an opportunity to discuss a range of issues that are a priority for Australia and India, […]