New Delhi, There is 17 per cent shortage of officers in armed forces and government has set a target of 10 years to fill all the vacancies, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Friday. Parrikar said in Lok Sabha during Question Hour that at present government is hiring additional oneRead More

New Delhi, India and Russia Thursday took a major step forward in their civil nuclear energy cooperation with both sides inking a strategic vision document for the construction of 12 new nuclear power units in India over the next two decades as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held summit talks withRead More

New Delhi, Facing an onslaught of criticism over the alleged rape by one its drivers, internet-based taxi firm Uber on Thursday apologised and said it will tighten background checks even as two more states – Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka – banned web-based cab services. A Delhi court, meanwhile, remanded theRead More

New Delhi, The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will take legal action against the Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party over allegations that it was receiving foreign funding, the party said today. Senior party leader and AAP’s Delhi convenor Ashutosh said that party’s funding was transparent in nature and thatRead More

Srinagar, BJP president Amit Shah Thursday hit out at the Omar Abdullah government in Jammu and Kashmir for its “slow” rehabilitation process after the September floods and alleged mismanagement of central relief funds, while promising his party would make the state the best in the country, if voted to power.Read More

Hisar, A local court on Thursday sent the self-styled godman Rampal to judicial custody in connection with the death of a woman follower in his ashram during the recent standoff between his disciples and police. Rampal was produced before the court of Judicial Magistrate (Hisar) Prateek Jain today after theRead More

Srinagar, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar Thursday reviewed the overall security situation in the Kashmir Valley in the aftermath of Dec 5 attacks in which eight soldiers were killed in an attack on an army camp near Uri town, a statement said. According to the defence statement, Parrikar visited the ChinarRead More

New Delhi, BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj was today at the centre of a controversy when he described Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse as a “patriot”, sparking outrage following which he retracted. The MP from Unnao said, “Godse was an aggrieved person. He may have done something by mistake but wasRead More

* 6000 villages to be connected in first phase Chandigarh,  With a view to provide high speed internet connectivity having unlimited bandwidth in rural areas, the Punjab Government has initiated a prestigious project to connect all villages with optical fibre network, a state of the art communication technology in theRead More