Riyadh, Sep 6 (IANS) Minister of State for External Affairs, Kirti Vardhan Singh, on Sunday met Saudi Arabia's Human Resources and Social Development Minister Ahmad bin Sulaiman Alrajhi and discussed cooperation in labour and manpower sectors.
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will be on an official visit to Sri Lanka from September 8-10, during which he will hold talks with the island nation's leadership on various issues and interact with the Indian diaspora in Colombo.
Surat, Sep 6 (IANS) More than 3,000 people took part in a five-kilometre cycling rally in Surat on Sunday as the 89th edition of the ‘Fit India Sundays on Cycle’ initiative focused on promoting a drug-free lifestyle among young people.
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) India is targeting a major expansion in its space launch capabilities, with plans to increase the number of launches to 50 a year by 2030 as the country looks to build a full-fledged commercial space ecosystem, Pawan Goenka, Chairman of the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe), said on Sunday.
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) There can be no greater terror than seeing your name, occupation, contact numbers, residential address, and details of your family and relatives publicly marked by terrorists. And the only reason for this is that you are a Kashmiri Pandit -- an original dweller of Kashmir trying to return and reclaim the land of your ancestors.
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) Following the collapse of a multi-storied building in Delhi's Satya Niketan area, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) RK Puram MLA Anil Kumar Sharma said that several students who were residing in a Paying Guest accommodation within the structure, are trapped under the debris and that some of them are calling for help by making phone calls from beneath the rubble.
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) Opposition leaders on Sunday took a jibe at Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat, saying that he "might have left some of his luggage in America" after the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) announced a ban on any Muslim participation in garba and dandiya events in Maharashtra.
Gudalur (Tamil Nadu), Sep 6 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu Forest Department has launched an operation to capture a male tiger that has repeatedly entered residential and agricultural areas in Vimalagiri, near Nambalakottai in the Gudalur Forest Range in the Nilgiris district.
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday shared glimpses of his light-hearted interaction with passengers during a Delhi Metro journey, turning what is generally an ordinary daily commute into an unexpected and memorable experience for the people travelling alongside him.
Mumbai, Sep 6 (IANS) A crime resembling the plot of the Bollywood film "Special 26" came to light in Mumbai, where a businessman was kidnapped and threatened with arrest by a gang posing as Income Tax and Crime Branch officials and demanding Rs 1 crore to settle the matter.
