New Delhi India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) today agreed to build on their growing strategic links as well as further their trilateral cooperation initiatives, especially in Africa. The joint project, a centre for IT excellence, will come up in Ethiopia. It will mark the beginning of more tripartiteRead More

New Delhi In a country-wide operation, the CBI carried out searches at 110 locations in 19 states in connection with fresh cases related to alleged corruption, arms smuggling and criminal misconduct, officials said Tuesday. The CBI has registered 30 fresh cases, they said. More details are awaited as the searchRead More

New Delhi A Delhi court on Monday summoned Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia for July 16 in a criminal defamation complaint filed by BJP leader Vijender Gupta. Gupta had accused the AAP leaders of “maligning” his image by accusing him of attempting to kill Kejriwal. AdditionalRead More

New Delhi Over 36 per cent of schools across the country do not have electricity, Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ said on Monday. The information was shared by the minister in response to a written question in Lok Sabha. “As per Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) report,Read More

New Delhi/Geneva An irked India on Monday lodged a strong protest with the UN rights office over its report on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, slamming it as a continuation of the earlier “false and motivated” narrative and violative of India’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. In a strong reaction,Read More

Gurdaspur The high-powered District Election Monitoring Committee (DEMC), the authority which keeps a tab on the expenditure incurred by candidates during elections by maintaining shadow observation registers (SOR), has confirmed that Gurdaspur MP Sunny Deol actually overshot his expenditure limit. The committee, comprising two expenditure observers (both IRS officers), DeputyRead More

New Delhi Another fraud, this time amounting to Rs 3,805.15 crore has been reported at the state-run Punjab National Bank (PNB), this time by the now-insolvent Bhushan Power and Steel Ltd. In February 2018, the Rs 13,500-crore scam involving diamantaires Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi had come to light atRead More

Washington Reflecting the new Indo-US bonhomie, the White House has lined up its top officials, including the all-powerful Jarred Kushner, for an India-centric business conference here this week. The move comes close on the heels of the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump in JapanRead More

Lucknow At least 29 passengers were killed and 17 injured when a Delhi-bound UPSRTC Janrath bus fell in a water-filled nullah along the Yamuna Expressway in Agra, UP, early on Monday morning. As many as 29 bodies were recovered, Agra District Magistrate N G Ravi Kumar said. There were 44Read More

Leeds, July 6 The 92nd ball he faced, Rohit Sharma got a short one from Kasun Rajitha — the Indian opener rocked back and bulleted a pull right to the fence at the square leg boundary. That stroke, his characteristic and run-heavy pull, took Rohit to 102 —no nervous 90sRead More