New Delhi:  Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's proposed visit to Israel next year, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will travel to Tel Aviv, besides Palestine and two other countries, in mid January. Ms Swaraj will be on a four-day, four-nation visit starting January 15, officials in

NEW DELHI: Scores of protesters, including the parents of the December 16 gang rape victim, were detained by the police after they staged a protest against the release of the juvenile convict near India Gate here on Sunday. The juvenile convict in the December 16 gang rape case was released on Su

After a 10-minute hearing, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul were today granted unconditional bail in the high-voltage National Herald case by a local court where they appeared along with a phalanx of top party leaders. Facing a private criminal complaint lodged by BJP leader Subr

Washington: Almost all Indian IT companies would pay between USD 8,000 and USD 10,000 per H-1B visa from April 1 when the next annual H-1B visa filing session starts, thus making it quite unsustainable economically for them. This is not only because of the USD 4,000 new fee imposed on Indian IT c

Islamabad: Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has stopped his ministers from giving anti-India statements so that the peace process is not hit, an official said. A close aide to Mr Sharif said on Friday that the ministers and senior officials had been asked not to issue any statement that coul

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday asked all National Financial Switch (NFS) member banks to make changes in ATM switches by March 2016 to help customers register for mobile banking services. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has developed the mobile banking regi

A day after the Ministry of External Affairs decided to start a fresh campaign to find hearing- and speech-impaired girl Geeta’s family, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday made an appeal to locate her family. In a series of tweets about Geeta’s identification marks and location of

Nirbhaya's Mother Asha Devi speaks at a programme to observe the third anniversary of Nirbhaya gang-rape case as 'Nirbhaya Chetna Divas' at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. Social activist Shabana Azmi is also seen. (PTI Photo)   The juvenile convict in the December 16, 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape

The AAP today put "five specific" questions to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley relating to its allegations of corruption in Delhi's cricket body DDCA under his watch and accused him of giving "vague" response to the charges. Calling Jaitley a "master of half truth and beautiful lies", AAP leader As

President of France Francois Hollande will be the Chief Guest at the upcoming Republic Day celebrations, it was officially announced today. "We are happy that the President of France Francois Hollande has accepted our invitation to be the Chief Guest at India's 67th Republic Day celebrations on 2

NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday disrupted Parliament over Arunachal Pradesh Governor Jyoti Prashad Rajkhowa, alleging that efforts are being made to "destabilise" the party's state government, even as the Centre said an "Emergency-like situation" was being witnessed there. The party forced repea

Escalating his attack on Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today demanded that he resign or be "removed" from the Union Cabinet to enable holding of an independent probe into alleged corruption in DDCA. Kejriwal said Jaitley's assertion that AAP's allegatio

Mumbai / December 17: aircraft technician with Air India was killed Wednesday at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport when he was sucked into the engine of an aircraft that was getting ready to taxi. The incident occurred as the Mumbai-Hyderabad flight AI 619 began its pushback at 8

NEW DELHI: Manmohan Singh's selection over Pranab Mukherjee in 2004 to head the UPA government came as a surprise not only to the Congress but also to outsiders and many argue the party might have averted the 2014 Lok Sabha drubbing if the choice had been otherwise, says former Union minister Salman

Mild tremors of 4.2 magnitude were felt in parts of Bihar and Jharkhand today morning. People reported feeling mild tremors in Gaya, Jamui, Banka and Bhagalpur in Bihar and Deoghar, Banka and Dhanbad in Jharkhand at about 8.35 am. Tremors were also felt in Jharkhand capital Ranchi. No loss of life

NEW DELHI: A furious Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today accused the Centre of targeting him in daylong CBI raids that began a little after 9 am and called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "coward and psychopath". Modi is a coward and a psycopath - Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) Decemb

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) on Tuesday cut petrol prices by Rs 0.50 per litre and diesel by Rs 0.46 per litre with effect from midnight tonight. In a press statement, IOC said: "The current level of international product prices of petrol and diesel and the rupee-dollar exchange rate warrant a decr

Railway ticket cancellation and refund rules have been amended, parliament was told on Monday. Granting refund of confirmed railway ticket up to four hours before departure, 50 percent cancellation charge for a confirmed ticket submitted between 12 and four hours before departure and 25 percent c