Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday emplaned for New Delhi from Nairobi, after completing his four nation tour in the African continent. “My trip to Kenya was memorable. Has made economic and cultural relations between India and Kenya to be more consistent,” he said prior to his departure. Earlier in the day, India and Kenya exchanged several agreements ranging on Read More

Amid protests over steep hike in hostel fees for girl students in Hindu College, senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy asked on Monday if the institution is turning into a “madrassa” and said he has written to HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar in this regard. “I have written a letter to HRD (Human Resources Development) Minister objecting to Hindu College DU charging Read More

With the valley on the boil following protests over the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, a grenade attack on CRPF troop in Nowhatta, Srinagar resulted in three jawans getting injured. The attack targeted a troop of 28 Bn CRPF who were deployed in the area. The injured jawans were immediately rushed to the SMHS hospital in Karan Nagar Read More

Boko Haram gunmen killed seven people in a raid on a town in northeast Nigerian Borno state near the border with Cameroon on Sunday, residents told AFP. Gunmen on motorcycles stormed the town of Rann in Kalabalge district overnight yesterday to today and opened fire on homes, fleeing residents said. “They opened fire on homes as we slept and killed Read More

India and South Africa will sign a MoU on grassroot innovation in selected areas, including agricultural technology and indigenous knowledge systems, on the sidelines of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s maiden visit to the country. The 20th anniversary of the bilateral cooperation in science and technology between South Africa and India will be celebrated by the signing of the memorandum of Read More

US President Barack Obama said on Saturday he expected Britain to go through with leaving the European Union after last month’s referendum and was concerned to limit the damage to the British, European and global economies from the move. As a friend, ally and trading partner of Britain and of the EU, he said Washington wanted to see an orderly negotiating Read More

Iraqi government forces on Saturday recaptured an air base in northern Iraq from the Islamic State group, a victory hailed by the prime minister as a key step ahead of the long-awaited operation to push the militants from the northern city of Mosul. In a statement issued on his web site, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi described the air base in the town of Qayara as an Read More

Roger Federer insists he will be back at Wimbledon in 2017, when he will be pushing 36, despite his heartbreaking loss to Milos Raonic in the semi-finals. The seven-time champion suffered a shock 6-3, 6-7 (3/7), 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 defeat in a match where he crucially failed to convert break points in the fifth and ninth games of the fourth Read More

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari will arrive on Sunday on a week- long official visit aimed at attracting billions of dollars in Foreign Direct Investment in the crucial infrastructure sector in India and accelerating bilateral cooperation with the US. On his maiden visit to the US in his capacity as Union Minister, Gadkari is scheduled to crisscross Read More

The Dallas police early Thursday night released a picture of an unidentified man as one of the ‘suspects’ behind the attack that killed five transit officers and and two civilians in the city. They posted a tweet asking help from people in identifying the ‘suspect’. They later added in a tweet that the ‘person of interest’ has ‘turned himself in.’ Within minutes, Read More