New Delhi, India won 6 medals (2 Gold, 1Silver & 3 Bronze) at 2nd Asian Para Games 2014. The names of the medal winners are as follows:- Sl. No. Name of Athlete(s) Event Medal 1 Sharad Kumar Athletics – Men’s High Jump (T42/ T44/ T47) Gold 2 Amit Kumar AthleticsRead More

Islamabad: Pakistan’s opposition leader Imran Khan has said that the Hindus who fled the country after being persecuted will return home if his party comes to power. “I am hopeful that people from Hindu community, who had fled Pakistan after facing atrocities, would return when Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) comes toRead More

Melbourne, The controversial plan to make Muslim women wearing burqas and the niqab sit in glassed enclosures at Parliament House, which has now been dumped, was put in place without any prior advice from security agencies. But Senate president Stephen Parry has insisted the October 2 decision to introduce theRead More

  Johannesburg, A South African judge on Tuesday sentenced Oscar Pistorius, the Olympic and Paralympic star, to serve a maximum of five years in jail for the culpable homicide, or manslaughter, of his model girlfriend. Pistorius was also given a three-year suspended sentence for contravening the firearms control act, toRead More

  Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said BJP’s win in Haryana and Maharashtra would have some effect on the assembly elections in the state, but maintained that the influence would not be as much as previously expected. “While obviously, the BJP will have some effectRead More

  New Delhi, india is deeply concerned about terrorism, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval said on Tuesday. “Terrorism is much more intense and expanded, india is deeply concerned. There is a need for comprehensive UN convention on terrorism with prescribed unified response,” Doval said while addressing the Munich Security ConferenceRead More

New Delhi, Congress today described as “preposterous” the claims by the NCP that they approached them to jointly support Shiv Sena to form a government in Maharashtra. “It is preposterous. The Congress Party has never in the past supported parties like Shiv Sena and will never support it in theRead More

New Delhi, The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday filed revised closure report in a coal block allocation case involving industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and others in a Delhi court. The CBI had on August 28, 2014 filed the closure report in the case in which it had earlierRead More

  New Delhi, Government of India tranferred 11 additional Secretery The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the following appointments: (i) Shri Kewal Kumar Sharma, IAS(UT:83), at present in the cadre, as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development in the vacancy of Shri A.B. Joshi, lPoS. (ii)Read More

New Delhi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh will travel to Mumbai after Diwali to meet the newly elected BJP MLAs and decide on the leadership issue and government formation in Maharashtra. “I am not going today. I think I will visit Mumbai after Deepawali,” he told reporters on the sidelines ofRead More