India

Hyderabad, Feb 6: The ruling TRS saw today's results in Hyderabad municipal elections that gave it a spectacular victory and majority in the 150-member civic body as a vote of confidence in the leadership of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR). "Basically, our work is reaching the people...", TRS leader and KCR's daughter, Kalvakuntla Kavitha, who is also Lok Sabha member from Nizamabad, said

Moran (Assam), Feb 5: Singling out the Sonia Gandhi family, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today accused the Congress President and her son Rahul Gandhi of disrupting Parliament to avenge defeat in 2014 Lok Sabha polls and hence blocking the passage of bills aimed at benefitting the poor. Addressing tea garden workers in this poll-bound state of Assam, Modi alleged that "one family" was indulging in

Dibrugarh, Feb 5: Seeking to create more jobs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called for value-addition of natural resources and creation of ancillary units that will help reduce imports as well as generate employment. Inaugurating a Rs 10,000-crore petrochemical plant that will make raw material for manufacturing plastic and a wax making unit at an oil refinery here, Modi said his government

New Delhi, Feb 5: Business associates of Anar Jayesh Patel, 45, daughter of Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, own a company that's sitting on 400 acres of land near the Gir lion sanctuary in the state —and 250 acres of that land was given to that company at an official rate of Rs 15 per square metre. Anar Patel describes herself as a social worker and an entrepreneur. Filings with the

Riyadh, Feb 5: Saudis and expatriates have welcomed the proposed change to Saudi law that would see a 40-hour week and two days off. “This would be a highly commendable change in Saudi labor law because it will encourage employees to work better and efficiently, said senior systems engineer at Tawuniya Saleh Bucay. “Giving them more spare time with their loved ones, more vacation days to relax and

New Delhi: Feb 5: A five-member team from the Ministry of External Affairs, including the High Commissioner of Tanzania, will arrive in Bengaluru on Friday to reassure the African students in the wake of Sunday’s incident in which a Tanzanian woman was stripped and assaulted by a mob. “The team will meet and assure the African students who are our guests. There are more than 5,000 African students

New Delhi, Feb 5: Ten soldiers buried in an avalanche at the Siachen Glacier in the remote Himalayas are presumed to be dead, as per reports on Thursday. The soldiers were on duty at an Army post on a glacier at an altitude of 5,900 metres (19,600 feet) when it was hit by a massive avalanche early Wednesday. Those martyred are a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) and nine other ranks of Madras

Jammu, Feb 4: All the 10 Army personnel including a JCO trapped under a mass of snow after a massive avalanche struck their high-altitude military post yesterday in Siachen Glacier were today feared dead. Even as the rescue operations continued for the second day today, a Defence spokesman said chances of finding any survivors were "very remote" after the deadly avalanche hit an army post that was

New Delhi, Feb 4: Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi today moved the Supreme Court challenging the December 7 last year Delhi High Court order refusing to quash summons issued to them in the National Herald case. Besides Gandhis, Suman Dubey and Sam Pitroda have also approached the apex court against the High Court verdict. The High Court had on December 7, 2015 not only refused to

Panaji, Feb 4: The son of a retired Army officer, who was arrested by Goa Police after he was found loitering suspiciously at the Vasco Railway Station, had been gathering information about bomb blasts which have taken place across the country in the past, a senior police official said today. However, police have not been able to link him to any terror plot as per the investigations that have