Smriti Mandhana continued her impressive run in the Women's Cricket Super League
Food retailing major McDonald's opened its first restaurant at Kolkata's Park Street.
The Railways cancelled 234 trains while 340 trains have been affected so far due to protests against the Agnipath scheme for recruitment in the defence services, the Railways said on Friday.
In a major initiative marking Prime Minister Narendra Modi's maiden visit to Bangladesh, two bus services connecting key cities in the two countries were flagged off on Saturday to boost connectivity and enhance people-to-people contact.
Modi wants the BJP to gets an additional 10% of the vote share from what it won in 2019. Plans are afoot to get new faces to replace MPs with poor chances of winning. Sources say more than 100 MPs are like to be axed, notes Modi biographer Ramesh Menon.
The present happenings in Manipur are the wages of continued neglect, and not so benign at that, of a vital region and its people. Had we lavished on the North East even a fraction of the care and resources we do on Kashmir, things would not have come to this pass, asserts Shreekant Sambrani.
'In terms of sheer incompetence, this government has rivaled the Rajiv Gandhi-led government that was derisively called the 'Baba-log' government for its naive handling of many issues,' notes Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Reliance Industries, the largest Indian private company, is in talks with Brazilian energy giant Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) to set up two petrochemical joint ventures, sources close to the development said. Both greenfield projects will require a total investment of around $6 billion (nearly Rs 25,800 crore).
Chief ministers of the two North-eastern neighbours announced in separate tweets that they met at Namsai in Arunachal Pradesh and signed the agreement.
Six constituencies speared across four north-eastern are currently casting their ballot in the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections.
Narsimha will meet representatives of various BCCI state units to discuss the multiple Interim Appeals (IA) before the next apex court hearing on Thursday, April 25. He is expected to submit a report on the matter on that day.
'Bihar, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Bengal can be the game changers of 2024.'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg are being finalised, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra said on Monday but did not give a direct reply on the possibility of a meeting between Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
There's a spate of book-to-screen adaptations dominating OTT streaming this week. Sukanya Verma lists her recommendations.
Senior bureaucrat Tarun Bajaj was appointed revenue secretary as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle by the Centre on Tuesday.
A new landmark of India -- both structural and spiritual -- rises on Ayodhya's horizon on Monday as a new-age architectural marvel of elegant sandstones, diligently carved by craftspeople with dedication and devotion to Lord Ram.
Battling the virus, enduring separation from loved ones, and working extended hours became part of the job.
D Vishwa was part of the Tamizhaga Table Tennis Association (TTTA) State men's team who were on their way to take part in the 83rd Senior National and Inter-State table tennis championships to be held in Meghalaya, Shillong.
After causing unimaginable devastation in Philippines, Typhoon Haiyan, one of the worst storms recorded in history, has made a landfall in Vietnam.
Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial nominee and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused the Congress party and the United Progressive Alliance government of conniving with terrorist outfit Indian Mujahideen, suspected to have played a key role behind the serial blasts at his Patna rally last month.
The local train traffic on the Central and Western Railway routes was mostly normal though the trains were running a few minutes late, railway officials said.
'... that they should listen to people of the soil of the North East and find a permanent solution to tribal problems.'
Union minister for Development of North Eastern Region Vijay Kumar Singh on Friday said floods in Assam is "nothing new". "Flood condition is nothing new to Assam. I have been dealing with floods in Assam since 1970 onwards," Singh said at a press conference in Guwahati.
The operations are being carried out in coordination with the railway authorities on the ground, he said.
Both the BJP and Congress understand that coalitions and alliances are not just about numbers, but have symbolic value.
"Rapid development of the North Eastern Region is among the top priorities of the Central government. The NER states are Special Category States which get liberal central funding on 90:10 pattern and non exempted Central ministries / department are mandated to allocate 10 per cent of their Plan funds for development of NER," said Paban Singh Ghatowar, Union minister, ministry of development of northeastern Region.
Manipur beat defending champions Orissa 3-1 in the final to win the 20th women's National Football Championship for the 17th time, at the Golaghat stadium in Assam, on Monday.
Jaishankar also said that there is a need to take the disengagement process forward.
As the lower house took up the motion moved by Gogoi, there were heated exchanges between the opposition and treasury benches after Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi wondered why Rahul Gandhi's name as lead speaker was withdrawn at the last minute.
In September, issue of new LPG connections had been put on hold pending a massive nationwide exercise to eliminate multiple connections
As much as 8 billion rubles (about Rs 1,000 crore) of dividend income belonging to Indian oil firms is stuck in Russia after the Putin administration clamped down on dollar repatriation, officials said on Friday. Indian state oil firms have invested $5.46 billion in buying stakes in four different assets in Russia. These include a 49.9 per cent stake in Vankorneft oil and gas field and another 29.9 per cent in TAAS-Yuryakh Neftegazodobycha fields.
In a daylong closed-door meeting, Joint Secretary (North East) of Union Home Ministry, Naveen Verma, recently reviewed the internal security and ways to tackle militancy in the north Eastern states with the director general of police and state home secretaries of the region.
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj will lead a fourteen-member Parliament delegation to Sri Lanka on Monday to study the alleged human rights violation during the operations against Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the north eastern province of the island nation.
A large number of NRIs having origins in these states are understood to have been defrauded by many such companies, including the Saradha group.
The relations between India and China cannot be normal if peace and tranquillity in border areas are disturbed, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Friday.
While star gazers in north-eastern, eastern and southern parts of the country will witness a partial eclipse of the sun, those in southern parts of Africa, Antarctica, South East Asia and Australia will be treated to a rare annular solar eclipse.
BSF Director-General M L Kumawat said in Shillong that New Delhi has decided to raise 29 additional battalions of the BSF and set up over 500 new Border Outposts, most of which will be located along the porous and sensitive frontier with Bangladesh in the Northeast.
The anti-government protests near the presidential secretariat in Colombo resumed on Sunday after the authorities lifted the nation-wide curfew to celebrate the Vesak -- what we call Buddha Purnima in India -- festival.
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