Tamil Nadu Congress spokesperson Khushboo on Monday met AICC vice-presidentRahul Gandhi and discussed the party affairs in the state in the wake of the recent electoral drubbing. “The new TNCC president will be announced soon,” she told reporters after the meeting, adding that she was ready to take charge. But there are many senior leaders eligible for the post, she said. 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

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

Delhi government on Friday approved formation of ‘Mission Swaraj’ to implement its ambitious ‘mohalla sabhas’ project through which people will be empowered and encouraged for participating in governance at the local level. A senior government official said ‘Mission Swaraj’ being the nodal agency of the project, will play a vital role for the idea of ‘swaraj’ to succeed in the national Read More

Congress general secretary in-charge of party affairs in Uttarakhand Ambika Soni on Thursday met Chief Minister Harish Rawat and state party chief Kishore Upadhyay to review relief efforts in the wake of torrential rains and cloudbursts in Pithoragarh and Chamoli districts that killed 21 people. Taking stock of the relief efforts at the Congress office, Soni asked party workers to Read More

Two investigative journalists at the heart of a controversial leaks trial at the Vatican were acquitted on Thursday after judges ruled they did not have the authority to examine their cases. Italians Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi, who had published books based on the documents at the heart of the trial, were not considered to have committed a crime on Read More

Poland’s ruling conservatives rushed an amended version of its constitutional court reforms through parliament on Thursday, apparently in an effort to reassure its Western allies over the issue hours before a NATO summit opens in Warsaw. Opposition critics said, however, the changes fell short of what was needed to keep from undermining democratic checks and balances, a concern expressed by Read More

The prime challenge that the education sector faces in the country is raising the quality of education and ensuring it reaches all, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar, who took charge, said on Thursday. “The major challenge that is there in the education sector is to raise the standard. Quality education is vital as it lays the foundation for life and builds Read More

Tenzin Gyatso Gyatso, who celebrates his 81st birthday Wednesday, is the 14th and current Dalai Lama. Dalai Lamas are priests of the Gelug faculty, a brand new order of Tibetan Buddhism. The Dalai Lama was born in Taktser village, Amdo in Tibet and become decided on as the ‘tulku’ of the thirteenth Dalai Lama in 1937. He turned into formally Read More