Kathmandu A 28-year-old Indian climber has scaled two mountains above 8,000 metres, including the Mt. Everest, in just six days during the ongoing climbing season, Nepalese media reported on Tuesday. Keval Hiren Kakka touched the peak of Mount Lhotse, world’s fourth highest mountain, on Tuesday. “The Mumbai-based climber scaled Mt.Read More

Mumbai The Shiv Sena on Tuesday expressed confidence that a government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be re-elected for a second term as the exit polls show a “clear trend” in the BJP-led NDA’s favour. At the same time, it also praised Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and hisRead More

Ahmedabad Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group has decided to withdraw the Rs 5,000-crore civil defamation suits filed in an Ahmedabad court against Congress leaders and National Herald newspaper over their statements and an article on the controversial Rafale fighter jet deal. The suits were being heard in the court of cityRead More

Chennai A 25-hour countdown began Tuesday for the launch of India’s all-weather radar imaging earth observation satellite RISAT-2B on-board Polar rocket from the spaceport of Sriharikota, the ISRO said. The workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, on its 48th mission, PSLV-C46, is scheduled for lift-off from the first launch pad ofRead More

New Delhi UNESCO has included the Indian part of Kailash Mansarovar in its tentative list of world heritage sites, sources in the Culture Ministry said Sunday. It was in April that the Archeological Survey of India, which is under the Culture Ministry, sent the proposal mooted by the Ministry ofRead More

Kedarnath/Badrinath After spending the night in a holy cave near Uttarakhand’s Kedarnath temple, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today thanked the Election Commission for granting him permission for the visit, saying he remained entirely cut-off from the outside world and got two days of “rest”. Modi reached Kedarnath on Saturday andRead More

Lucknow Amid reports of Dalit voters allegedly being prevented from exercising their franchise and sporadic incidents of violence in Chandauli, the final phase of polling for 13 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh concluded with a turnout of 56.84 per cent, slightly higher than the 2014 average of 54.96 perRead More

Mumbai The Shiv Sena on Monday hit out at the opposition parties for trying to come together to keep the BJP out of power after the Lok Sabha poll results, saying the country cannot afford to have a coalition government “crawling” with the support of several small outfits. Taking aRead More

New Delhi The cross examination of former Union Minister MJ Akbar continued on Monday in connection with a defamation case filed by him against journalist Priya Ramani. The hearing which is still on saw heated exchange of arguments between two senior advocates — Akbar’s counsel Geeta Luthra and Ramani’s CounselRead More

New Delhi Buoyed by the exit poll predictions, BJP president Amit Shah has convened a meeting of the leaders of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on May 21, ahead of the counting of votes on May 23. Sources in the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) said that Shah is likely toRead More