Kolkata, Sep 18 (IANS) Sanchita Dey Pradhan, the candidate from the Mamata Banerjee-led faction in the Trinamool Congress for the bypoll in Nandigram Assembly Constituency in East Midnapore district of West Bengal, withdrew her nomination on Friday afternoon after a meeting with Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari.
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said he had a productive meeting with Maninder Sidhu, Minister of International Trade, Canada, here on advancing the India-Canada Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA).
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) India on Friday rejected Pakistan's allegations over the collision between the Indian Navy's INS Kolkata and Pakistani naval ship Hunain in the western Arabian Sea on September 15, terming them as "usual prevarication".
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday received a phone call from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan during which the latter congratulated the Prime Minister on India's successful BRICS Presidency.
Ranchi, Sep 18 (IANS) The Jharkhand High Court on Friday extended its stay on the state government's decision to cancel appointments made through the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) Child Development Project Officer (CDPO) examination and the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC) Combined Graduate Level (CGL) recruitment process.
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) South Korea's Ambassador to India, Lee Seong-ho, said on Friday that ties between the two nations are expanding "very rapidly" and termed the relationship between Seoul and New Delhi as one of the most promising partnerships in the 21st century.
Ujjain, Sep 18 (IANS) Dharma does not bind a person but liberates them, RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat told young participants on the second day of the three-day ‘Yuva Dharma Sansad’ (Youth Religious Parliament) held at Gita Bhawan in Ujjain on Friday.
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) The government on Friday eased the existing 15-day sugar stockholding limit for bulk consumers to 30 days, subject to the condition that the quantity of stock held beyond the existing 15 days limit is sourced exclusively from sugar imported under advance authorisation scheme (AAS) and tariff rate quota (TRQ).
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) India highlighted the three pillars of 'Security, Connectivity, and Opportunity' for international trade at the 25th meeting of Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Member States Responsible for Foreign Economic and Trade Activities held in Tajikistan's Dushanbe, according to an official statement issued on Friday.
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) A 73-year-old man was arrested after his car struck a motorcycle and dragged it nearly 500 metres on a road in southwest Delhi’s R.K. Puram area.
