WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s “thoughts and prayers” are with the victims of a shooting at a US cinema that killed two people dead and injured nine others, the White House said on Friday. Obama was traveling to Kenya late Thursday when he learned about the deadly incident, White House spokesmanRead More

The Indian Army faces a shortage of nearly 10,000 officers, while the figure stands at 1,800 for the Navy, according to Defence Minister, Manohar Parrikar. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Mr Parrikar said, that there are 9,642 vacant posts of officers in the Army, and 1,779 postsRead More

NEW DELHI: The US adopts most number of Indian children from various orphanages across the country, followed by Italy and Spain, the government said on Friday. According to the data provided by Women and Child Development Ministry in a written reply in Lok Sabha, America adopted 108, 156, 133 andRead More

BHOPAL: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) may find it quite difficult to conduct a thorough probe into the Madhya Pradesh Vyapam scam as a lot of suspected documents related to various exam have already been destroyed as “waste papers”. Vyapam president MM Upadhyay told PTI that any exam materialRead More

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government has recommended a CBI inquiry into the death of a witness in a rape case against spiritual guru Asaram Bapu. Akhil Gupta, 35, was shot dead in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar in January while he was on his way home from work. Mr Gupta, who wasRead More

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said the state’s regional film industry can compete with Hollywood. “Culture unites everyone. No one can create a rift in the world of art. I am confident one day Tollywood will give tough competition to Hollywood,” Ms Banerjee said while felicitating actorsRead More

LUCKNOW: A national fencing champion, Hoshiyar Singh, died on Thursday allegedly after he was thrown off a train by the railway police in Uttar Pradesh. The 27-year-old, who won the bronze medal in an under-17 championship in 2005, was travelling with his mother, wife and 10-month-old child on the trainRead More

DEHRA DUN, UTTARAKHAND: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s wife and Samajwadi Party (SP) lawmaker Dimple Yadav has been asked to lead the party’s campaign in the neighbouring state of Uttarakhand, according to local leaders. The proposal has been sent to the central leadership. SP state unit president Satyanarayanan SachanRead More

Chandigarh, July 24– Punjab Deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today announced Punjab would encourage farmers to establish mini solar plants in their own land even as he announced that the State government was open to subsidizing installation of solar pumps for agricultural purposes from the funds being given toRead More

Jandiala Guru, July 24 A day after Chief Parliamentary Secretary Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu targeted the state government for turning a blind eye towards her Amritsar East constituency and showering Bathinda with grants, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today refuted the allegations. Talking to the media after a Sangat DarshanRead More