New Delhi: India is mulling creating helipads along the open 699 km-long border with Bhutan to ease travel to difficult locations in the region and provide air support facilities for border guarding troops deployed there.The
New Delhi: The BJP government on Monday strongly defended the Cabinet expansion undertaken on Sunday in the wake of "taint" charges raised against some of the inductees by Congress, saying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee today conferred Jnanpith award on eminent Hindi poet Kedarnath Singh for his outstanding contribution towards Indian literature. “Kedarnath Singh, through his poetry, has offered us a rare assimilation of rhymes and
Kolkata: In yet another major breakthrough, NIA today arrested Amjad Sheikh, alleged to be a key member of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terror group, in connection with the Burdwan blast case. Sheikh, alias Kajal, a resident
Jerusalem: India and Israel today successfully test fired a long range surface to air missile jointly developed by them, marking a milestone in bilateral cooperation in developing advanced weapon systems. “The Long Range Surface to
New Delhi: In 2012, while contesting the Goa assembly elections, the then Chief Minister (now Defence Minister of India) Manohar Parrikar had filed an affidavit before the Election Commission stating he owned assets worth Rs
Madurai (TN): Madurai police today found 11 crude bombs kept inside a garbage bin in Anna Nagar here. A Bomb Disposal Squad was rushed to the spot to defuse the explosives. Tamil Nadu's Q branch, Special Investigation
Ranchi: Former Indian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi was today quizzed as a witness by Jharkhand Vigilance Bureau in connection with alleged irregularities in the purchase of equipment for the 2012 National Games held here.Assistant
New Delhi: Darjeeling is a hill station which attracts tourists not only from India but from all over the world. It is located in the state of West Bengal on the northern part of the
New Delhi: Apparently with China in mind, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley today said the government is taking all steps to create matching infrastructure on the Indian side to realise its military potential. Noting that “our
Surat: A Delhi-bound Spicejet plane with 146 people on board hit a buffalo while proceeding for take- off here last night but no one was injured in the incident, though the aircraft was damaged and
Ranchi: Notification for the second phase of elections for 20 of the 81 seats to the Jharkhand Assembly was issued today, officials said.The seats going for the second phase polling on December 2 are -
New Delhi: An Air India flight from Bangkok to Mumbai made an emergency landing in Kolkata after a passenger suffered a cardiac attack and the crew spoke to doctors through the ATC channels to treat
Aizawl: Mizoram government would ban import, sale and use of firecrackers during Christmas and New Year celebrations, state Home minister R Lalzirliana said here today.Lalzirliana told media persons that the state government had successfully banned
New Delhi: Water Resource Minister Uma Bharti today defended the expenditure of nearly Rs 44 lakh on a Clean Ganga meeting here, saying the money went to a government agency for organising the event and
Chennai: Naval exercises planned by the Eastern Command fleet for coming Sunday off Chennai coast have been put off in view of ongoing rescue operations to locate four missing personnel after a vessel sank off
New Delhi: A reshuffle of the Union Council of Ministers will take place at 1 PM on Sunday, official sources said. This will be the first expansion and reshuffle of his ministry Prime Minister Narendra
Surat: A Delhi-bound Spicejet plane, with about 140 passengers onboard, hit a stray animal on the runway a few seconds before the take-off at the Surat airport today.“A Surat-to-Delhi SpiceJet aircraft, Flight number SG 622,
Ahmedabad: Maharashtra Congress MLA Nitesh Rane today drew severe flak from his party as well as BJP for passing “derogatory” remarks against Gujarati community staying in Mumbai.“Nitesh Rane's tweet is his personal statement. As far
New Delhi: Bollywood star Salman Khan today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here. It was not clear as to what transpired in the meeting. The two have recently been praising each other over the ‘Swachh
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