New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and New York City’s former mayor Michael Bloomberg Monday announced a partnership between Bloomberg Philanthropies and India’s urban development ministry to advance the “Smart Cities Initiative”. The Smart Cities Initiative is aimed to promote economic growth, improve governance, and deliver more effective and efficient public services […]
New Delhi, Feb 15 Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena arrived here Sunday on a four-day state visit – his maiden trip abroad since he won the presidential elections last month. He was received by Minister of State for Shipping P. Radhakrishnan. On Monday, President Sirisena will be accorded a ceremonial reception at Rashtrapati Bhavan after […]
Abuja, Feb 14 Government forces repelled an attack by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria’s Gombe city Saturday, witnesses said. The militants stormed Dadin Kowa, about three km from Gombe, a city in the northeastern part of the country, with heavy firing, Xinhua news agency reported citing Abu Hassan, one of the witnesses. But government forces, […]
Baghdad, Feb 14 Iraqi security forces and allied militiamen fought Islamic State (IS) militants and recaptured large parts of a town located near the major air base of Ain al-Asad which houses hundreds of US troops in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, a provincial security source said Saturday. The security forces and Sunni tribesmen backed […]
Minister for Transport Gladys Berejiklian today said new modern barriers at train stations and more Transport Officers to patrol the public transport network are being introduced as part of a crackdown on fare evasion. These higher barriers have been installed for testing at Olympic Park station, ahead of a roll out at stations across the […]
Guwahati, Feb 10 (IANS) Two home guards were killed and seven others injured Tuesday when a bomb went off accidentally at an Assam Police firing range in Golaghat district, an official said. The incident took place at the Kalyani firing range in Deopahar near Numaligarh, a police spokesman said. “The home guards personnel were undergoing […]
Bengaluru, Feb 10 (IANS) A very positive campaign focusing on development and governance led to a spectacular victory for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Delhi assembly election, former Infosys director and AAP leader in Karnataka V. Balakrishnan said Tuesday. “We ran a very positive campaign focusing on development and governance in Delhi. We […]
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) Four Congress candidates came second in the Delhi assembly polls with one of them losing the election by a small margin of votes. Hasan Ahmed, who contested the poll from Mustafabad, lost the seat to Jagdish Pradhan of the BJP by 6,031 votes. Devender Yadav, who contested from Badli, lost […]
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda Tuesday reviewed the swine flu situation in Gujarat, one of states worst affected by the disease. Gujarat has recorded 831 cases of swine flu and 88 people have succumbed to the disease. Nadda held a high-level meeting with state Health Minister Nitinbhai Patel and senior […]
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) He campaigned like a local leader, handpicked his own chief ministerial candidate for Delhi and made it a personal referendum on his leadership. Yet Prime Minister Narendra Modi could not halt the AAP juggernaut in these assembly polls and in the process lost his first election since his winning streak […]