New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha was disrupted on Monday over a private member’s bill on giving special status to Andhra Pradesh, which could not be taken up in the House on Friday due to pandemonium. The Congress, which raised the issue on Monday morning as well, disrupted the proceedings post-lunch over the issue, with its […]

New Delhi: The countries under the Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC) have called for imparting urgency to the initiative for the sake of integration and connectivity in the south-east Asian region. “The ministers endorsed the SOM (Senior Officials Meeting) report and emphasised that collaboration under MGC must be given a sense of urgency since it actively supports […]

Srinagar:  Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrived here on Saturday morning on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir to take stock of the prevailing law and order situation in the Valley. A special BSF plane carrying the minister landed at the technical area of the Srinagar International Airport at 11.45 a.m. A team of […]

Tripoli: At least 14 unidentified dead bodies were found in Benghazi, Libya  second largest city, officials confirmed on Saturday. The bodies with gunshots to their heads, taken by the members of the Red Crescent society were brought to a local hospital on Friday, Xinhua news agency reported. UN envoy to Libya, Martin Kobler expressed his […]

Islamabad:  Authorities conducted polygraph and DNA tests on Pakistani social media sensation Qandeel Baloch  brother who killed the model-cum-actress for honour. The police official heading the investigation team took suspect Muhammad Waseem, Qandeel’s brother, to Lahore to conduct the tests in a forensic lab on Friday, Dawn online reported. The result of the polygraph test […]

New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday flagged off here a three-day bus yatra to Uttar Pradesh which is intended to inform the people about the failures of successive non-Congress governments in the state. The bus yatra, with a message ’27 saal, UP behal’, will travel through Ghaziabad, Hapur, Amroha and Moradabad on the […]

Tokyo: Japanese authorities on Saturday urged visitors to stop playing augmented reality smartphone game Pokemon Go in popular tourist sites. The most emphatic protest came from the Izumo-Taisha shrine, considered the second most sacred in Japan, which banned the use of Pokemon Go within its premises on Friday after the game had launched, according to […]

Chennai: The search for the AN-32 aircraft with 29 people on board that went missing on Friday morning, continued on Saturday with no sightings of any debris in the Bay of Bengal, said an official of Indian Air Force (IAF). “The search is going on. If there is any substantial development it will be made […]

Mumbai: Actor Ranveer Singh says that during the shoot of one of the sequences of his film “Befikre”, the director Aditya Chopra observed that he was acting like Anil Kapoor and told him to act like himself. “‘Befikre’ shoot was going on in Paris and Adi (Chopra) sir cut a shot, came from behind the […]

New York:  In a bid to use drones to beam free internet to the nearly four billion people (60 percent of the global population) from the sky, social media giant Facebook has announced the first full-scale test flight of its Aquila solar-powered high-altitude unmanned aircraft. “After two years of engineering, I’m proud to announce the […]