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

For those in India waiting for low-cost Lumia smartphones that come packed with New-Age Windows 10, there is still some time as the company is now focussed on re-branding and launching new generation smartphones to take on big players, a top Microsoft executive has said. "We are sort of re-buildi

Hyderabad: Reiterating Google's commitment to the 'City of Pearls', Chennai-born Sundar Pichai, who was appointed Google Inc's CEO this August, on Wednesday announced that the company will be setting up a "huge" facility in Hyderabad. "Google is looking at hiring people for Bangalore and Hyderaba

THE UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations kicked off the race to be the next secretary-general with a letter that for the first time invited candidates to become the world’s top diplomat. The choice of the UN chief has for decades been the purview of the five permanent Security Council members — Brita

After being stabbed in his back, shoulder and leg for resisting a robbery, a 26-year-old IT administrator was forced to walk 2.5 kilometres - all while bleeding profusely - towards the nearest hospital, while his pleas for help went ignored by dozens of of commuters and pedestrians. The victim is

RIYADH: King Khaled International Airport (KKIA) announced here on Wednesday that officials would no longer check passports at boarding gates to save time and money. This includes all passengers departing on international flights, an official, who did not want to be named, told Arab News on Wednesd

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

BENGALURU: Transport department officials booked and seized 150 vehicles after checking 2000 in Bennerghatta Road, IIM-B, JP Nagar, Jayanagar, Delmia Circle, Banashankari Circle, Ashoka Pillar for various violations. Private Vehicles including goods vehicles, buses, Maxi cabs and private cars wer

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s economy took a $16-billion hit this year from forest fires that cloaked Southeast Asia in haze, more than double the sum spent on rebuilding Aceh after the 2004 tsunami, the World Bank said Tuesday. The fires and resulting haze are an annual occurrence caused by slash-and-burn

JEDDAH: The Ministry of Labor will launch on Tuesday an e-services website for enterprises on www.mol.gov.sa in order to enable owners and their representatives to create accounts with the ministry to execute a number of online services. Services which can be handled through the ministry's portal a

You could soon charge mobile phones using power from your kitchen table. British-based designers have developed solar cells that can sit within a glass-topped table to turn light into electricity. In future, families will simply plug their smartphone into their table rather than the mains.

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

امریکا میں سیاہ فام مسلمان خاتون جج نے قرآن پاک پر حلف اٹھایا۔ کیرولن کے اس اقدام کو سوشل میڈیا پر بھی سراہا جا رہا ہے۔ نیویارک کی سول عدالت میں کیرولن واکر نے بائبل کے بجائے قرآن پاک پر حلف اٹھانے کو ترجیح دی۔ امریکا اور بیشتر مغربی ممالک میں سیاستدان اور عدالتی ارکان اپنے عہدوں کے لیے عیسائی

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

(CNN)Calling Islamic extremism a disease, Saudi Arabia has announced the formation of a coalition of 34 predominately Muslim nations to fight terrorism. "This announcement comes from the Islamic world's vigilance in fighting this disease so it can be a partner, as a group of countries, in the fig

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