New Delhi,  At least 85 trekkers are still unaccounted for after a blizzard dumped snow and triggered avalanches along a mountain trekking route popular with backpackers, the Trekking Agencies’ Association of Nepal said on Thursday. At least 21 trekkers were killed in the storm. Army and civilian rescue workers say theRead More

Washington,Indian-American Vanita Gupta, a top lawyer from American Civil Liberties Union, has been appointed to head the civil rights division of the US Justice Department, becoming the first South Asian to hold this post. President Barack Obama is expected to nominate Gupta to serve as the permanent Assistant Attorney GeneralRead More

United Nations, The global famine warning system is predicting a major food crisis if the Ebola outbreak continues to grow exponentially over the coming months, and the United Nations still hasn’t reached over 7,50,000 people in need of food in West Africa as prices spiral and farms are abandoned. On theRead More

Sriharkota, Scripting another success in India’s space programme, ISRO today launched its third navigation satellite IRNSS 1C on board its PSLV rocket from here in the wee hours, moving closer to setting up its own navigation system on par with the GPS of the US. IRNSS 1C is part ofRead More

Islamabad, In the wilderness for a long time, former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf has made an anti-India rant by saying Pakistan needs to “incite” those “fighting” in Kashmir. “We have source (in Kashmir) besides the (Pakistan) army … people in Kashmir are fighting against (India). We just need toRead More

New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to restrain coal companies, which were directed to wind up mining operations in six months after their coal block allocations were cancelled by it, from extracting coal during this period and selling it in the market. A bench headed by Chief Justice H.L.Read More

New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today unveiled a string of labour reforms, including measures to end ‘Inspector raj’, asserting that ease of doing business is “essential” to ensure ‘Make-in-India’ campaign is successful. He dedicated a number of schemes under Shramev Jayate (work alone triumphs) programme, which includes portability throughRead More

New Delhi, In first major Secretary-level shuffle by the Narendra Modi government, Finance Secretary Arvind Mayaram has been transfrred out of the Finance Ministry to a low-profile Tourism Ministry. Mayaram, who was senior most among the four Secretaries in the Ministry of Finance with dual roles as Finance and EconomicRead More

Chandigarh, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi gave out the signal loud and clear that he would not mind taking strict action ( to wield danda) if needed against who-so-ever he might be in case the person was damaging the party interests. This assertion of his came virtually towards the fag endRead More

* 11 Tehsildars promoted as District Revenue Officers Chandigarh, The Punjab Government today issued promotion, transfer and posting orders of District Revenue Officers, Tehsildars and Naib Tehsildars. Disclosing this, a spokesperson of the Punjab Govt. said that 11 Tehsildars have been promoted as District Revenue Officers (D.R.O.). Giving details heRead More