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Centre to hold one lakh LPG Panchayats

The Central government on Saturday launched a country-wide LPG Panchayat as a backup to the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana to distribute LPG connections among...

Hindu groups want Ayodhya temple construction to start by next year

Hindu leaders are hopeful that the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre will ensure that construction work for a Ram temple at Ayodhya in...

Yogi takes battle to criminals, police carries out 430 encounters in six months

The Uttar Pradesh police carried out a staggering 430 encounters in the last six months after the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in...

‘Pak army attacking Baloch population to sanitise CPEC’

Baloch activists have approached the United Nations urging it to ask Pakistan to put a halt to the ongoing military operations in Kolwah and...

Boeing inaugurates second phase of aerospace engineering facility

Boeing’s additional new facility at the Boeing India Engineering and Technology Centre (BIETC) was inaugurated here on Saturday by Minister of State for Civil...

No formal role for Rajamouli in Amaravati design

Bahubali filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli who has been roped in to finalise the architectural designs of Amaravati, the new capital city of Andhra Pradesh, has...

And now braid chopping starts in J&K

The mysterious braid chopping incidents have created a wave of fear and anger among the women folk in Jammu and Kashmir. A few incidents...

Arabs with fake medical certificates go bride hunting in Hyderabad

Most of the Arab sheikhs who come to Hyderabad to marry young Muslim girls are found to be in possession of fake medical certificates....

Liquor bonanza in telugu states ahead of 2019 polls

Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are expecting heavy revenues through the sale of liquor ahead of general elections in early 2019. The two states which...

Poll bugle to be sounded at BJP national executive

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah will set the tone for the 2019 general elections at the party’s extended national executive...

Congress does not want BJP to take credit for women’s reservation bill

In an attempt to prevent the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) from taking credit for the Women’s Reservation Bill (WRB), Congress president Sonia Gandhi has...

Rahul embarks on outreach plan to revive Congress at grassroots

At a time when Rahul Gandhi is expected to be elevated as Congress president, he has embarked on outreach programmes and efforts to expand...

Chhattisgarh takes huge strides to bridge digital divide

Under the dynamic leadership of Chief Minister Raman Singh, Chhattisgarh has taken rapid strides to bridge the digital divide in the state.When Chhattisgarh came...

Chhattisgarh witnessing rapid progress in all major sectors

The old adage “where there’s a will, there’s a way”, holds true for Chhattisgarh. The 16-year young state, which had started its journey with...

Enabling start-up environment boosts state’s growth story

If one is an entrepreneur, then Chhattisgarh is the best destination. The state government genuinely believes in nurturing entrepreneur-talent, as today it is the...

Naya Raipur: world’s no.1 integrated city

Chhattisgarh’s Naya Raipur is all set to emerge as a smart and vibrant city to drive economic growth and improve the quality of life...

Chhattisgarh educating tribal students on a mission mode

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” These words of Nelson Mandela have stood the test of...

Chief Minister Raman Singh woos foreign investors to state

Chhattisgarh has been aggressively wooing foreign investors to set up business operations in the state, with Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh leading the blitzkrieg.The...

‘We aim to make the Internet relevant for small businesses’

GoDaddy is the world’s largest web-hosting company dedicated to small and medium-sized businesses as well as to independent ventures. Guardian 20 speaks to Nikhil Arora,...

Dylan’s third ‘bootleg series’ to release soon

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Bob Dylan’s Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series Vol. 13...

IIT grad from Kanpur wins James Dyson Award for his ‘patient transfer’ prototype

Asish Mohandas, 25, a fresh graduate in product design from IIT Kanpur, has recently won the James Dyson Award for his innovative product, MAATTAM,...

Running for a cause: Delhi Pinkathon hosts over 10,000 women from all walks of life

Colors Delhi Pinkathon, an initiative to raise awareness on the importance of a healthy lifestyle for women and issues like breast cancer, successfully concluded...

Global Child Rights, and Wrongs: There’s nothing universal about child-protection laws

This week, the Government invited comments from the public on whether India should accede to the Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child...

American artist of Indian origin returns to Delhi

Art Alive Gallery is presenting The Open Window, a solo exhibition of paintings by Tara Sabharwal. Sabharwal is an Indian artist who hails from Delhi...

Mentorship programme for art curators an object lesson in exhibition-making

Mumbai Art Room, a not-for-profit art space with special focus on curating exhibitions, will mentor emerging Indian and international curators for the next two...

Majestic In All Things

On the day of the new president’s inauguration, when we worried that he might be murdered as he walked hand in hand with his...

Sunil Jakhar, Swaran Salaria file nominations for Gurdaspur Lok Sabha bypoll

Congress leader Sunil Jakhar and BJP rival Swaran Salaria on Friday filed their nominations for the 11 October by-election in the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha constituency, with senior Congress leader...

Coal India steps in with increased supplies to support TPPs

During the month of August 2017 as the country was reeling under energy crunch with growth in hydro, nuclear and others sources plunging down...

Aquakraft’s Swachhagraha business plan emerges among top three plans of ‘Be a Chatur’ contest

Mumbai based Chatur Ideas, one of the leading enablers of start-ups, has announced Aquakraft’s Swachhagraha business plan as among the top three business plans...

Rohingya issue is not just about refugees, it’s about India’s security: Govindacharya

Former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue and former BJP national general secretary, K.N. Govindacharya, who is credited with strengthening the BJP’s organisational base in...

Kashmir names neolithic pot ‘Kim Kardashian’

Kim Kardashian, a well-known American reality TV personality and actress, has been surprisingly linked to Kashmir after archaeologists named a beautiful pot, discovered at...

Mandatory system sought to ensure children’s safety in private schools

The warning issued by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) earlier this week to affiliated schools to pay heed to the new safety...

Amnesty slams state and Central governments for using pellet guns

Amnesty International India has asked for an immediate ban on the use of pellet shotguns in Kashmir as means to control crowds.At a symposium...

Communal tension at peak in Leh, as deadline ends for Kargil Muslims to leave

Communal passions are running high in Leh where the Ladakh Buddhist Association (LBA) had asked hundreds of people from Kargil, who work in Leh...

Yogi plans grand Ardh Kumbh in 2019

With Yogi Adityanath at the helm of the state, the Ardh Kumbh Mela in 2019 is bound to be bigger, better and different. The...

Kancha Ilaiah gets threats for ‘abusive’ book

Prominent “Dalit-Bahujan” writer Kancha Ilaiah has sought protection from Hyderabad police as he received “death threats” after his Telugu book, Samajika Smugglerlu, Komatollu (Vysyas,...

Hyderabad police keeps an eye on pro-Rohingya meetings

The Hyderabad police is keeping a watch on the meetings protesting the deportation of Rohingya Muslims in Hyderabad for the past few days. Such...

KCR will force LS bypoll on Congress

Congress’ tally in the Lok Sabha may officially go down from 44 to 43, as TRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao...

Track-II parleys behind separatists’ talks offer

Behind the surprise development of the Kashmir separatist leadership issuing a statement on Friday calling for meaningful and serious dialogue with New Delhi without...

Speculation rife Maken may lose DPCC post

In the aftermath of the Congress’ loss in the recent Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections and last month’s Bawana by-election, Delhi Pradesh Congress...

Sharad Yadav, Ali Anwar may be disqualified from RS

The Rajya Sabha membership of two JDU rebel Members of Parliament, Sharad Yadav and Ali Anwar, is likely to be disqualified before the winter...

India News felicitates change-makers

India News, India’s leading Hindi news channel, celebrated the unique Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (ZNMD) Award, bringing the spotlight on unassuming people who create...

European rivals of Shinkansen trying to undermine India’s bullet train project

European rivals, who did not succeed in the bidding for India’s ambitious bullet train project, are casting aspersions about the Japanese Shinkansen technology. Work...

Growing India, Japan ties irk China

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to India earlier this week has augmented India-Japan defence ties significantly and has irked China on expected lines....

Joint statement maps out road for India-Japan ties

The Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe visited India on 13 and 14 September 2017 for the annual India-Japan Prime Ministerial Summit. This visit...

‘Product and profitability are two key pillars of Cleartrip’

Cleartrip is completing over a decade in the online travel space and has taken great leaps as a steadily growing business and brand name....

Experience the wilderness with shades of green and blue in Saputara, Gujarat

As a fond lover of hills and mountains, I find it hard, almost impossible, to stick to a bland, page-long itinerary while roaming around...

International health programme prescribes eye care to truck drivers

Sightsavers, a leading global development organisation working in over 30 countries to combat avoidable blindness and promote equal opportunities for visually impaired, unveiled “Eyes...

Breaking free: Travel made accessible with Planet Abled

For Neha Arora, a family vacation with her parents, who are suffering from physical disability, is always more of a challenge than a leisure...

One sentence at a time: Short story authored by netizens

I found it hard to get over my broken heart, I thought I never would.” This is the first sentence of a crowdsourced short...

ISLAM: Tazkiya; Means of reaching God

Questions rise about effectiveness of police and Central officials in Manipur

The debate in Trump world over Ukraine isn’t what India thinks it is

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