Kabul,The Taliban struck a government compound in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday in a dawn attack that included two suicide truck bombings and left at least 12 people dead, including 10 policemen asleep in their quarters nearby. The assault followed a stark message from the Taliban to world leaders gathered atRead More

New Delhi, In the 55-minutes video issued overnight, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the successor to Osama Bin Laden, is seen focussing on a map of the Indian peninsula. Hours after Al-Qaeda chief Ayman Al Zawahiri issued a video announcing a new branch of the terror group to “raise the flag of jihad”Read More

New Delhi,  Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrived in New Delhi Thursday on a two-day visit during which both countries will look at ways to deepen strategic ties and strengthen bilateral trade and commerce. The big-ticket item on the agenda, however, is the likely signing on September 5 of aRead More

New Delhi,  The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for the release of an additional installment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to pensioners with effect from July 1 this year. This is an increase of seven perRead More

New Delhi,  Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Minister of State in Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Space and Atomic Energy launched the “Appointment From Home” facility at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)Read More

New Delhi, The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee delivered the 5th Dr. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture on the topic ‘Vision of India in 21st Century, as envisaged by Dr. Ambedkar’ today (September 4, 2014) at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. Speaking on the occasion, the President said Dr. Ambedkar dreamt of anRead More

New Delhi,  Production and price risks affect the income of farmers, which has adverse effect on their capacity to invest in advance crop varieties, techniques of production and capital formation in farm sector. Inaugurating a Seminar on concept of farm income insurance scheme at Ahmedabad today, Union Minister of Agriculture,Read More

New Delhi, BJP on Thursday hit back at Rahul Gandhi for his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and blamed the former UPA regime for the problems for which the Congress leader targeted the government. Union minister Venkaiah Naidu responded to Rahul’s attack by taking a dig at him, saying,Read More

New Delhi/Amethi – Four young Congress secretaries on Thursday met party general secretary Janardan Dwivedi to convey their concerns over senior leaders publicly criticising Rahul Gandhi, who sought to downplay the “tension” saying it will be dealt with. AICC secretaries Harish Chowdhary, Naseeb Singh, Prakash Joshi and Shakeel Ahmed Khan had aRead More

Jammu/Srinagar, At least 50 people were feared dead after an overcrowded bus carrying wedding guests was swept away on Thursday by a flooded stream in Jammu and Kashmir, where authorities sounded disaster alert after two days of incessant rains caused the worst flooding in the past two decades. Jammu divisional commissionerRead More