Agartala/Guwahati: The Union Home Ministry has alerted all the eight northeastern states to maintain a maximum vigil to deal with any threat of Jihadi Activities in the region, a top official said on Monday. “The MHA (Ministry of Home Affairs) has requested all the eight northeastern states to remain maximum alert to tackle any threat […]

Ranchi: JMM leader Hemant Soren has lodged a complaint against police officer Anurag Gupta under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, for using “humiliating words” against him. Soren visited a police station here on Sunday night and produced a CD to claim that Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Gupta […]

London, July 25: Researchers in Germany have discovered tools that were used for rope making about 40,000 years ago, the time when modern humans arrived in Europe. The find in Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany is a carefully carved and beautifully preserved piece of mammoth ivory 20.4 cm in length with four holes between seven […]

New Delhi, July 25: Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Transition Holdings, which has entered the Indian market with its itel Mobile global brand has sold more than one million handsets in less than three months. The 15 products launched so far include eight feature phone and seven smartphones aimed at empowering the aspiring consumer base with value-plus […]

New Delhi, July 25: The Union Ministry of Power on Monday warned the public against online vendors fraudulently selling 9W LED bulbs under the name of government UJALA scheme and even using Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s images. “Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) is hereby alerting its consumers of fraudulent websites selling 9W LED bulbs under […]

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 […]

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 […]

Washington, July 23: NASA astronauts were sent to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on a 16-day mission to prepare for future deep space missions and the journey to Mars. The “aquanauts” were sent to train undersea in simulated space mission as the bottom of a blue ocean and the surface of a Red Planet […]

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 […]

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 […]