Vienna: More than 4,000 people have been killed and tens of thousands of people have been injured in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, the special envoy of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said Thursday. Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave the war-hitRead More

London: Britain`s anti-European UK Independence Party (UKIP) was on Thursday set to claim its second seat in Parliament a month after gaining its first foothold as voters went to the polls in Rochester. The by-election in southeast England was called after MP Mark Reckless defected in September from Prime MinisterRead More

Washington: US President Barack Obama will not take measures to ease the embargo on Cuba unless the government in Havana makes significant progress in democratic and economic reforms, his Deputy National Security Advisor Antony Blinken said. Blinken made the comment on Wednesday when Cuban-American Senator Marco Rubio (Democrat) asked himRead More

Kiev: A convoy of international monitors from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was shot at by “uniformed personnel” in east Ukraine, the organisation said on Thursday. The OSCE said that a uniformed man on the back of a flat-bed cargo truck fired two shots in theRead More

Delhi: Ahead of the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday that Article 370 was a national issue for them and that there should be an extensive debate over its utility. He also said that there were many schemesRead More

New Delhi: The removal of CBI Director Ranjit Sinha by the Supreme Court from 2G scam case has prompted the agency’s former chiefs to term it as a “bad dream” which they would like to forget. Reacting to the apex court’s removal of Sinha from the case and highly criticalRead More

New Delhi: Inter-linking of rivers will raise the irrigation capacity of the country by 90 percent, Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti said Thursday. “There is no shortage of water in our country. Excess rain water in our country flows into seas through rivers. We need to conserve this waterRead More

New Delhi: Union Minister Maneka Gandhi has called for making gender equality an international mass movement, saying it should go beyond being a mere slogan. The Women and Child Development Minister said this while addressing the Asian and Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Beijing+20 Review, organised byRead More

New Delhi: Supreme Court judge Justice Dipak Misra on Thursday called for a codified law as well as imparting proper training to law enforcement officers to deal with the issue of cyber crime and match the level of intelligence of the criminals who commit such offences. Expressing concern over theRead More

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stop-over at Nepal’s Janakpur was on Thursday cancelled at the last minute due to opposition by some political parties peeved over their non-inclusion in the preparatory committee. Bimalendra Nidhi, Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport and also chief of the preparation committee in Janakpur,Read More