NEW YORK: Hillary Clinton announced today she was running for president for all Americans, unveiling a progressive platform promising to promote equal opportunity and fight for a beleaguered middle class. “America can’t succeed unless you succeed, that is why I am running for president of the United States,” she saidRead More

BRATISLAVA: A South Korean man thought to have contracted the potentially deadly MERS virus was hospitalised in the Slovak capital Bratislava on Saturday, a spokeswoman said. “He is a 38-year-old man from South Korea who is suffering from diarrhoea, fever and lesions on his skin,” Petra Stano Matasovska, from Bratislava’sRead More

LONDON: A senior Cambridge University academic working with Tata Steel has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list along with 17 other Indian-origin people who received in various fields. Professor Harshad Kumar Dharamshi Bhadeshia, Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge, has been conferredRead More

WASHINGTON: An internal State Department assessment paints a dismal picture of the efforts by the Obama administration and its foreign allies to combat the Islamic State’s message machine, portraying a fractured coalition that cannot get its own message straight. The assessment comes months after the State Department signaled that itRead More

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES: US and coalition forces conducted 12 air strikes targeting Islamic State in Iraq on Friday and three strikes against the militant group in Syria, mostly focusing on urban areas, the US military said today. “The coalition continues to strike Daesh (Islamic State) terrorists in complex and congestedRead More

NEW DELHI: The police custody of former-Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar was on Saturday extended by two days by a court in the city after the Delhi Police claimed that documents produced by him were “fabricated” and charges under Prevention of Corruption Act might also be invoked in theRead More

NEW DELHI: Latching on to the salary issue of sanitation workers, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday made a strong pro-poor pitch assuring them that he will give his “whole life to fight” for the rights of the under-privileged wherever they are being suppressed. “I am not talking about sanitation staff aloneRead More

New Delhi: Senior IAS officer Pradeep Kumar Sinha on Saturday took over as Cabinet Secretary succeeding Ajit Seth who retired after serving in the post for four years. Mr Sinha, an IAS officer of 1977 batch from Uttar Pradesh cadre, was Power Secretary before his new assignment. Earlier, he hadRead More

RUDRAPUR: Sixteen samples of Maggi noodles, manufactured by Nestle India, failed quality tests at the state drugs and food testing laboratory, showing more than permissible levels of MSG and lead content. After conclusion of the lab tests at Rudrapur, the report is being sent to Food Secretary Uttarakhand, Chief MedicalRead More

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government today suspended five policemen, suspected to be involved in the murder of a scribe in Shahjahanpur District this week, even as the family of the journalist sought CBI probe into the incident. UP minister Ram Murti Verma, who has been accused of orchestrating the murderRead More