Hyderabad: The Telangana government today issued orders to constitute a task force on urban mobility to study the monorail model in the IT corridor of the city.

Municipal Administration Minister K T Rama Rao underlined the need to integrate and synergise various modes of mass transportation systems such as me

Ahmedabad: The BJP continued its winning performance in Gujarat by bagging 47 out of 75 municipalities today. The main opposition, Congress, won 16 municipalities, while the NCP and BSP emerged victorious on one each.

Voting for the 75 municipalities was held on last Saturday and the results were declared tod

Islamabad:  Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi reversed his decision to take stern action against Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Falah-i- Insaniyat Foundation fearing that any such move could trigger a political crisis, a media report said today.

Pakistan has come under intense pressure to

Baghdad: The Islamic State group has killed 27 members of a pro-government paramilitary group in an ambush north of Baghdad, the Hashed al-Shaabi force said.

"On Sunday evening, a unit of the Hashed al-Shaabi was ambushed by the Islamic State terrorist group in the Hawija region" about 300 kilometres (18

Mumbai: The Star India Pvt. Ltd, which holds the media rights of the Indian Premier League, today also won the audio-visual production rights for not just the IPL but also the BCCI's domestic circuit for the 2018-19 season.

The BCCI had invited Request For Proposal (RFP) documents for services relating to the

Chennai: A Mahila court in Chengalpet here convicted 23-year-old techie S Dhasvanth to death in the rape and murder of seven-year-old Hasini. He had burnt the child's body after he committed the crime on February 6 last year.

Dhasvanth is also facing a separate case of killing his mother when he came out on ba

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South Korean President Moon Jae-in called Monday for a "stern" response to new US tariffs on the South's exports as concern grew over looming trade restrictions by Washington.

US President Donald Trump last week threatened retaliatory action against China and South Korea and vowed

Coimbatore: Chief Minister K Palaniswami has hit out at Union minister Pon Radhakrishnan over his remarks that Tamil Nadu was turning out to be a "training centre" for extremists, saying the state was the "most peaceful" in the country.

A few days back Radhakrishnan had alleged, "Tami

Gorakhpur: A ruling BJP lawmaker and 27 other people have been booked under various charges, including rioting and criminal conspiracy, following a fracas over a land dispute in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, police said today.

Kamlesh Paswan, the sitting MP from Bansgaon constituency, and others were booked las

Bhubaneshwar: Veteran Odia actor Aparajita Mohanty today joined the BJP in the presence of the party's senior leaders, including Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

She quit the Congress earlier this month.

"I joined the BJP as I was influenced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi&