St Petersburg: India is committed to protecting the climate, irrespective of the Paris agreement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here today but avoided a direct reference to the US withdrawing from the international deal. Addressing the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) here i

Bhopal: The police have arrested 118 people in connection with the May 30 communal clashes in Old City area here. “We have arrested 118 people since May 31. More arrests in connection with the violence will be made,” Superintendent of Police (Bhopal North) Arvind Saxena told PTI today. “Thos

New Delhi: Gold prices tumbled by Rs 250 to Rs 29,100 per 10 gram at the bullion market Wednesday, tracking a weak trend overseas and muted demand from local jewelers. Silver also dropped by Rs 450 to Rs 40,000 per kg due to reduced offtake by industrial units and coin makers. Traders said a w

New Delhi: Six more airports in the country, including Patna and Chennai, will do away with the practice of tagging and stamping domestic passengers’ hand baggage from tomorrow. The four other airports that will usher in the new practice include those at Jaipur, Lucknow, Thiruvananthapuram and Gu

Jaipur: Justice Manish Chand Sharma, a Rajasthan High Court judge has asked the Supreme Court to declare cow the national animal and also requested it to give life imprisonment to people who kill it. He also mentioned 11 benefits of cow urine. “I spoke with the conscience. Our religious texts tel

Germany: PM Modi has left for Spain on Tuesday after his one-day visit to Germany. This will be the first Indian prime ministerial visit to Spain in nearly 30 years after the visit of then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1988. India and Germany held the fourth round of the biannual Inter-Governme

Barrackpore : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today told the officials in her administration that there was no need to follow the Centre’s notification banning the sale of cattle for slaughter at animal markets till the state government issued a direction to that effect. She, however,

Chennai,TN: A Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Madras PhD scholar was allegedly beaten up on Tuesday by right-wing students for organising ‘Beef Fest’ in the campus. The victim, R. Sooraj has been beaten up for conducting ‘ Beef Fest’ in IIT. He has been seriously injured in his right eye.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has embarked on a four-nation tour of Germany, Spain, Russia and France with the aim of boosting India's economic engagement with these nations and inviting more investments. The prime minister's tour comes after he celebrated his three years in office with much fanfa

Nagpur: Bharatiya Janata Party national president Amit Shah spent about seven hours in the city on Monday after landing in Nagpur around noon. In the evening, he was closeted with Sarsanghachalak Mohan Bhagwat and his deputy Bhaiyyaji Joshi at the Mahal headquarters of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sang

Students at IIT-Madras held a beef festival inside the campus to protest against a central government rule that bans the sale of cows for slaughter at animal markets. The protest on Sunday evening saw 70-80 students and food was brought from outside to be distributed to the participants. Stude

NEW DELHI: A day after it was reported that dalit families in Kushinagar district received two bars of soap and a sachet of shampoo and were "instructed to bathe before the visit of UP chief minister Yogi Aditya Nath", the opposition was up in arms. Congress on Sunday demanded that the CM be book

Three cases of Zika Virus have been reported in Bapunagar area, Ahmedabad including a pregnant lady tested this January. The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed the first three cases of Zika virus in India. In order to prevent infection, it is necessary to know how it is transmitted, its s

Kannur: Police on Sunday have booked 16 Youth Congress activists for slaughtering a cow in public and cooking its meat followed by its distribution. They were charged under IPC Section 428 and Section (ii) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960. Congress-headed UDF opposition youth grou

NEW DELHI: Chemists from across the country are set to go on a nationwide one-day strike on May 30 to protest stringent regulations on the sale of medicines in the country and to draw attention to the squeeze on their margins. The All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD), representi

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police have been put on high alert following intelligence inputs that a group of 20- 21 Laskar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists has entered the country to carry out attacks. The Delhi Police Special Cell has issued an advisory alerting its district, metro police and railway police un

A Supreme Court vacation bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and Navin Sinha refused an urgent hearing on a matter related to the recent flare of caste violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Sahranpur district. The Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by advocate Gaurav Yadav sought a probe by a Special Inv

Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today questioned Hurriyat leader Naeem Khan in connection with the tapes in which he was purportedly seen confessing to receiving money from Pakistan-based terror groups. The sources said that Khan has also been asked to submit some documents rela