The southwest monsoon hit Kerala on Friday, six days after its original scheduled date of onset, even as the country braced for what has been predicted to be a season of deficient rainfall.  The India Meteorological Department (IMD) cited the "fairly-widespread-to-widespread” rainfall over Kerala

MUMBAI:  The Shiv Sena has said that it is time Prime Minister Narendra Modi revealed his 'Mann Ki Baat' on the contentious issue of Ram temple in Ayodhya even as it remarked BJP lawmaker Vinay Katiyar's comments in this context as a "bomb" which can explode in future. Rajya Sabha lawmaker Vinay

Every year, June 5 is celebrated as World Environment Day with a new theme. This year the theme is "One Planet. Consume with Care." This year's theme is encouraged by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation report which says that every year, 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted and more than 20,

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Friday certified Maggi noodles as "unsafe and hazardous” for consumption and ordered recall of all its variants from stores across the country within three days. Nestle India, makers of Maggi Noodles, perhaps had an inkling of the FSSAI

NEW DELHI: Internet giant Google has apologized "for any confusion or misunderstanding" caused after PM Narendra Modi's images started appearing in image search results for query on "Top 10 criminals in India". "These results trouble us and are not reflective of the opinions of Google. Sometimes,

NEW DELHI: India and the United States have sealed an agreement to jointly develop protective gear for soldiers against biological and chemical warfare, and another on building generators, defense officials said on Wednesday. The projects were cleared as US Defense Secretary Ash Carter held talks

Boston: Renowned Islamic scholar of India Professor Akhtarul Wasey has emphasized that in India Islam or Muslims have been part and parcel of Indian landscapes for over a thousand years. "Since their arrival in India, Muslims have paid close attention to Hinduism and India and showed keen interes

NEW DELHI: This year's monsoon may arrive on India's southern Kerala coast in the next five days as the rains have missed their normal start date of June 1, weather officials said on Monday. The annual rainy season is vital for India as half its cropland lacks irrigation. The farm sector accounts

NEW DELHI:  Kerala has ordered a pullout of Maggi noodles from government-run outlets and the Delhi government has said samples that it tested were found "unsafe," amid a country-wide scrutiny of the product for high content of lead and monosodium glutamate or MSG, a taste enhancer. However, Goa'

NEW DELHI:  The state-run telecom Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited will offer free national roaming from June 15, Union minister for Communications Ravi Shankar Prasad said today. Spectrum sharing and trading policy to go to Cabinet this month and full mobile portability will be given from July, he a

Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptulla Monday defended BJP governments’ predilection to ban beef, saying the sentiments of the majority community too should be respected. “I have one principle, I should not hurt anybody’s sentiments. You are talking about sentiments of the minority community. S

New Delhi : Activists and academics on Sunday came out strongly against the Narendra Modi government, accusing it of following the worst policies of the erstwhile Congress-led UPA government. "The media has been giving a view that everything is fine and the economy is looking up which is not true

In yet another incident of ceasefire violation, Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked firing on forward Indian positions along the Line of Control in Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch district on Sunday night. Giving details, sources said that this has been the first incident of ceasefire violatio

President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday re-promulgated for the third time the Land Ordinance that prescribes processes for acquisition of land for public projects, official sources told The Hindu. His assent came before he left for an official tour to Sweden and Belarus. Despite Opposition protes

NEW DELHI: Eating out, mobile phone usage and air & rail travel have become expensive from today with the government hikingservice tax rate to 14 per cent. The government's proposal to increase the rate of service tax from 12.36 per cent (including education cess) to 14 per cent has come into

New Delhi: Mild tremors were felt in New Delhi and the National Capital Region for nearly a minute this evening, triggering panic as people living in high-rises rushed out of the buildings. No immediate loss of life and property were reported from anywhere in the city. The tremors came shortl

NEW DELHI:  It was expected but the re-promulgation of the land ordinance has once again come with more controversies. The Union Cabinet gave a go-ahead to the land ordinance for the third time today, after it failed to get support for the Land Acquisition Bill in Parliament in the face of a united

A scare at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport over a suspected radioactive leak turned out to be a false alarm on Friday as atomic inspectors gave the all clear. Airport authorities reported earlier that there had been a leak in a consignment of sodium iodide 131 - a radioactive liquid u