General

New Delhi, Feb 16 : With China as the elephant in the room, India-Japan strategic ties are moving to the next level.Both countries are leveraging the location of India’s North-East region, to secure a trans-border regional corridor where China’s inte…

New Delhi, Feb 16 : A Delhi Court on Tuesday extended Punjabi actor-turned-singer Deep Sidhu’s police custody by seven more days in the Republic Day violence case.Sidhu, arrested from Karnal bypass in Haryana on February 9, has been touted by Delhi P…

New Delhi, Feb 16 : The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has sought a fresh count of the number of Gurdwaras in Pakistan following a controversy.The SGPC — Sikh’s single largest representative body in the world, has asked the Pakistan …

New Delhi/Guwahati, Feb 15 : Ahead of the state assembly polls, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar during his visit to Assam along with a Japanese delegation on Monday said that the potential is immense for India’s collaboration with Japan in th…

New Delhi, Feb 15 : Penguin Random House India is to publish prizewinning writer Irwin Allan Sealys stunning new novel, titled “ASOCA: A Sutra”, an imagined memoir of Ashoka The Great, the emperor who ruled most of the Indian Subcontinent and played …

New Delhi, Feb 15 : Former army chief Ved Prakash Malik has taken up cudgels against those who are slamming the India-China agreement on troop withdrawal from Ladakh.”Surprised to see criticism.Mostly due to ignorance of facts or politico-military un…

New Delhi, Feb 15 : Mexico received a consignment of 870,000 doses of the Pune-made AstraZeneca-Oxford Covid-19 vaccine from India on Sunday, the government of the Latin American country said. Mexico is the second Latin American country to get India-…

New Delhi, Feb 15 : NTPC on Monday said it has fast tracked all modalities and procedures for distribution of compensation to the immediate families of those who lost their lives in the natural disaster that struck Tapovan project in Uttarakhand’s Ch…

New Delhi, Feb 15 : Continuing its streak of low number of single-day coronavirus cases, India reported 11,649 new infections in the last 24 hours even as its overall tally mounted to 1,09,16,589, health officials said on Monday.For over a month, Ind…

New Delhi, Feb 15 : Alok Sharma, an Indian-origin minister in the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Cabinet, on Monday arrived in New Delhi for two days of climate discussions with Indian leaders.Sharma, the COP26 President-Designate to lead the cruc…