On the occasion of Independence Day, AMP organized a National event  titled “Hum Banenge Hindustan Ki Nayi Pehchan” in more than 35 Schools on 16th Aug 14. The event was intended to create awareness of Careers in Armed Forces & Government sectors to students and to motivate them to make their ca

The India-Pakistan relation is likely to remain frosty for sometime after the latest flashpoint. New Delhi is bracing for an attempt by Islamabad to raise the issue of Kashmir at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York late next month. Though both Prime Minister Narendra Modi an

MOTIHARI/PATNA: At least 21 people, including seven children and five women of a family, were killed and a woman was injured as the Muzaffarpur-Dehradun Rapti Ganga Express train rammed into a Paiggio auto when it was passing through a manned railway crossing that had been left open between Semra an

JEDDAH: The Indian Haj mission has introduced several high-tech measures to facilitate the pilgrimage of 136,000 Indians coming for Haj this year. “We will make use of every form of new-age technology, from Google Maps and smartphone applications, to Facebook, YouTube clips and text messages, to

At least 30 people, including women and children, have died and more than 24 have gone missing as the flood situation in Uttar Pradesh, especially in the eastern districts, worsened following incessant rain in the neighbouring Uttarakhand and increased discharge of water from the barrages in the pas

LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: More than three lakh people in seven Uttar Pradesh districts along the terai were hit by swirling river waters by Saturday afternoon, with a cloudburst in Nepal, release of waters from its barrages, and heavy rain in the catchment area of the Himalayan rivers being the foremost ca

AFP Photo Kathmandu:  India announced a relief assistance of Rs. 48 million, on Saturday, for the victims of the recent floods and landslides that hit different parts of Nepal, claiming over 240 lives in two weeks. "The government of India will provide Rs. 30 million (NRs 48 million) assistanc

Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday commissioned India’s largest indigenously built warship “INS Kolkata” into the Indian Navy, describing it as “a symbol of our self-reliance in the field of defence”. “INS Kolkata, entirely built in India, is a symbol of our self-reliance in the f

15 August 2014 | Press Release | Bhatkallys News The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC - www.iamc.com ), an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India's pluralist and tolerant ethos, has called on Indians across the world, to mark the occasion of India's 68th Independence D

Image Courtesy: Times of India NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday made a marked break from the past in his maiden Independence Day speech with many firsts — notably by scrapping the Nehruvian vestige, the Planning Commission, and by ending his 65-minute extempore speech with the sl

MUMBAI: Almost 1.65 million people across the world die due to heart problems brought on by excess intake of salt, said a research analyzing populations from 187 countries. The paper, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on Thursday, found that the average consumption of salt a

Kolkata: The Northeast Frontier Railway’s (NFR) Construction Organisation has started building the world’s tallest girder rail bridge at Noney in Manipur. The bridge is part of the proposed 125-kilometre Jiribam-Tupul railway line to connect Imphal, the capital of Manipur, which is 780 metres a

NEW DELHI: Booking rail tickets through the IRCTC website is going to be hassle-free for now. The new e-ticketing system developed by Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) would allow booking of 7200 tickets per minute against 2000 tickets through the existing system. The system, develope

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government over recurring incidents of communal violence and "deliberate” attempts to divide people on religious lines.  She was speaking at a Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee

NEW DELHI: Flooding in eastern India has killed 45 people and displaced more than 300,000 in the past week, a senior official said Monday, adding that water levels were now gradually receding. Residents have been sheltering in relief centers in Orissa since being evacuated from their homes when tor

Speculation was rife on Sunday that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee may be named for the country’s highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna. Though the government has not officially announced it, rumour mills started soon after it became known that the Home

An exuberant Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who completed 75 days in office on Saturday, hit back at his detractors, both local and global, by justifying the tough decisions taken by his government in the interest of the people.  Speaking at the BJP National Council meeting, the first mega party c

New Delhi:  Inflation cannot be controlled in a day and the situation on the ground has improved: This was what Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a group of parliamentarians from four southern states when they met him yesterday. It was also the first time Mr Modi spoke out on the subject that has la