Shillong: National People's Party (NPP) President Conrad Sangma will be the new chief minister of Meghalaya, Northeast Democratic Alliance (NEDA) convenor Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday.

Speaking to reporters here, Sarma stated that there would be no deputy chief minister for the state.

He furthe

New Delhi: A nearly Rs 40,000 crore deal to procure S-400 Triumf air defence missile systems from Russia is yet to be concluded mainly due to differences over price which India would look to sort out during Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's upcoming visit to Moscow, official sources said.

India wants to pr

Paris: Judges are investigating whether French far-right leader Marine Le Pen and her party illegally took more EU parliament money to pay for France-based staff than previously thought, a report said Sunday.

If confirmed, the claims could cast a pall over the National Front congress next weekend aimed at recastin

Mangaluru: Congress president Rahul Gandhi will undertake a two-day campaign in Dakshina Kannada district from March 20 ahead of Karnataka assembly elections, party chief whip in the state Legislative Council Ivan D'Souza has said.

Gandhi would address several public meetings in the coastal district during his

New Delhi: A month before the expiry of the deadline, around 80 per cent of bank accounts and 60 per cent of mobile connections have been linked with national biometric identifier Aadhaar, according to a senior official at UIDAI.

The government has mandated submission of the 12-digit unique identity number by ever

Amaravati: The opposition YSR Congress today said that it would boycott the Budget session of the Andhra Pradesh Legislature starting here tomorrow.

The ruling TDP and the BJP, in the absence of the YSRC from the session, claimed that they would be "the government as well as the opposition".

Th

(Online Desk)

Italy international defender Davide Astori died in his hotel room during the night of Saturday to Sunday, his club Fiorentina said on Sunday.

"Fiorentina are profoundly shocked to have to announce the death of captain Davide Astori after a sudden illness," the Serie A club said on Twit

Lucknow: In a major realignment of political forces in Uttar Pradesh, the two bitter rivals Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati and Samajwadi Party  (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav have decided to come together for upcoming bypolls to Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha seats slated to be held on March 11, thus setting the

Kohima: Neiphiu Rio has the majority and should form the government, Nagaland Governor P B Acharya said today after a meeting with the NDPP leader, who claimed he has the support of 32 MLAs in the 60-member Assembly.

Acharya said he has asked Rio to submit signatures of all the 32 MLAs supporting him by tomorrow.<

Cairo: Egypt's military said on Sunday four soldiers and 10 jihadists were killed in a military operation in Sinai against Islamic State group jihadists.

The deaths raise military casualties to at least 16 dead, along with more than 100 jihadists, since the start of the operation on February 9, according to pr