The death toll in the Kosi-Seemanchal belt, where a cyclonic storm destroyed several acres of land, has risen to 48 even as Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announced compensation to farmers whose crops were damaged. According to Kumar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had already s ....

A reluctant opposition was forced into a debate on the agrarian situation by a sharp intervention from Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. After an hour had passed post lunch with the Opposition’s tactics ranging from demands for the prime mi ....

Farewells in the Rajya Sabha are usually solemn, at times emotional. On Thursday, it was also about comradeship as MPs across parties rooted for the return of a member freshly retired. One by one, opposition and ruling coalition MPs asked CPM general secretary Sitaram Ye ....

The third edition of Delhi Literature Festival provided the much required platform to writers and book lovers. The Third Delhi Literature Festival (DLF) concluded on April 19 at Triveni Kala Sangam in the Capital. The three-day festival was inaugurated by the chairpers ....

Hail and floods occurred in the past more than 25 million  hectare crops are destroyed. In return they would receive compensation to farmers only three thousand crore, while the actual shed millions crore. According to sources, the district Klctoron violence through ....

Reclusive Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has not resumed day-to-day control of the organisation since he was wounded in an air strike in March, the Guardian reported on Tuesday. The daily cited an Iraqi source as saying that Baghdadi’s injuries were init ....

A Michigan woman was sentenced three to seven years in prison after firing her gun at a McDonald’s drive-through when her hamburger was delivered twice without bacon, local media reported. Shaneka Monique Torres, 30, was convicted in March of carrying a conceal ....

Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, was calm overnight and into Wednesday morning after Saudi Arabia declared an end to its month-long airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Iran-backed Shiite rebels and their allies, a campaign that has claimed hundreds of lives and pushed the impov ....

Synopsis: First comes the rain, then arrives Raina before Chennai produce Super magic in the field and Nehra blows kiss of death on skipper Kohli’s lone stand. Raina arrives Heavy rain and a torrent of sixes are two inevitabilities that the thousands who throng ....

At his home in Nangal Jhamarwada in Bandikui, from where set out two days ago, Gajendra Singh Kalyanvat always hoped to be a ‘kisan neta’. He had missed a Samajwadi Party ticket for the assembly elections in 2008 by a whisker. The lost opportunity had dishearten ....