New Delhi: The Centre has refuted the claim made in a PIL that due to lack of vacant posts in the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), its members are working on their own without any direction and coordination.

“It is not true, NDMA is headed by the prime minister,” the Ministry of Home Affa

Moscow: Moscow on Saturday said Washington was encouraging “new bloodshed” in eastern Ukraine by its decision to provide Kiev with “enhanced defensive capabilities.”

In a strongly-worded statement deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov accused the United States of “crossing the line&r

Ahmedabad: A civil court here on Saturday vacated an ex parte and interim injunction imposed on news web portal ‘The Wire’ against further use and follow-up of its story in October about the astronomical rise in the business of BJP President Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah after the Narendra Modi government came

New Delhi:Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin today held wide-ranging talks with a focus on further boosting the bilateral defence and security ties through joint manufacture and co-development of key military platforms and weapon systems.

Official sources said various a

Chennai: The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leaders Kanimozhi and A Raja, who were acquitted in 2G spectrum allocation scam case, were accorded grand welcome here on Saturday.

Hundreds of DMK workers and supporters gathered at the Chennai Airport after the party leaders were acquitted by the Special Central Burea

New Delhi: Two trial court judges have been suspended by the Delhi High Court for alleged corruption.

The decision to suspend the two additional sessions judges, posted at Dwarka District Court, was taken by a full court of the high court on December 21, sources close to the Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal’

New Delhi: A major fire today broke out at a hospital in east Delhi’s Preet Vihar and 84 patients were evacuated from the building, officials said.

Some patients suffered minor injuries in the rescue operation in the fire that broke out on the second floor of the Metro Hospital and Cancer Institute, they sai

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a segment of the newly-built Magenta Line of Delhi Metro on Monday which will connect Botanical Garden in Noida to South Delhi’s Kalkaji Mandir, the government said on Saturday.

Modi will also address public at the inauguration, which will happen at the

Mumbai: The BCCI today extended the services of noted cricket administrator Ratnakar Shetty, the Board’s general manager (Game Development), till March 31.

An announcement to this effect was made by BCCI acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary at a press briefing here this evening, where the ODI tour for the Sout

Ahmedabad: Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who today met party leaders here to discuss assembly election results, claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much talked- about Gujarat development model was debunked during the polls.

The Congress chief held zone-wise “introspection meetings” here to