New Delhi: Calling it a momentous achievement, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister JP Nadda on Friday declared India free of Infective Trachoma, which has been a leading cause of infectious blindness among children.

Announcing it among the senior Health Ministry officials and faculty from Opthalmology De

Gandhinagar: As the first phase of the Gujarat assembly election became underway on Saturday morning, the security has been beefed up to maintain law and order across the state.

Over 1,74,000 police personnel have been deployed with security apparatus on highest alert to ensure smooth conduct of the voting process

New Delhi: The Delhi government will launch a mobile application on Saturday through which Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Classes, minorities, and handicapped persons can apply for employment loans, SC and ST Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam said here on Friday.

The mobile application will be launche

Washington: The United States today advised its citizens to defer all non-essential travel to Pakistan, saying that foreign and indigenous terrorist groups continue to pose a threat to them throughout the country.

The warning comes in the wake of increasing terrorist violence, including sectarian attacks, in Pakis

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday wished Congress President Sonia Gandhi on her 70th birthday.

“Birthday greetings to Congress President… I pray for her long life and good health,” Modi said in a tweet.

The Congress party also wished Gandhi. “Compassionate, hard

Ahmedabad: Around 11 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the initial two hours during polling on 89 seats of Saurashtra and South Gujarat regions in the first phase of the crucial Gujarat assembly polls

After the polling process began at 8 am, people could be seen stepping out of their homes despite cold weathe

Guragaon: A woman has alleged that she was molested and thrown out of a moving cab by three men on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway here but the police “forced” her to file a case of robbery only.

However, Gurgaon Police Chief PRO Manish Sehgal, while reacting to the allegation, said the woman had only fil

Colombo: Sri Lanka today formally handed over the southern seaport of Hambantota to China on a 99-year lease.

Two Chinese firms – Hambantota International Port Group (HIPG) and Hambantota International Port Services (HIPS) managed by the China Merchants Port Holdings Company (CMPort) and the Sri Lanka Ports

Mumbai: A helicopter ferrying Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to Aurangabad today was forced to land soon after taking off from Nashik apparently due to overloading.

The private chopper took off again successfully for its scheduled journey after offloading one of the passengers and some luggage, the p

Mumbai: Union Roads Minister Nitin Gadkari today said the government will be soon announcing a policy which calls for 15 per cent blending of methanol in petrol to make it cheaper and also reduce pollution.

“In the upcoming Parliament session, I am announcing a policy of blending 15 per cent methanol in petr