Thiruvananthapuram: Heavy rains continued to lash coastal areas of Kerala today, crippling normal life, even as Cyclone Ockhi lay centered about 80km north-northeast of Minicoy in Lakshadweep.

About 150 fishermen, who put out to sea from various southern districts, were rescued, Thiruvananthapuram District Commissioner

New Delhi: The government has approved the launch of the National Nutrition Mission (NNM) which will be driven by technology to monitor the growth of children as well as check the pilferage of food ration provided at anganwadis.

The mission will kick off in 315 high burden districts during 2017-2018 and will be impleme

Kolkata: Amid the H1B visa row in India, the US government on Friday said there has been no change in law regarding the H1B regime and the system continued to be as before.

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for State for South Asia Thomas Vajda said no legislation has been passed so far on the particular category of vi

Lucknow: The ruling BJP today established early gains in the Uttar Pradesh civic polls as counting of votes was in progress for all the 652 urban local bodies.

For the mayoral elections, the saffron party forged ahead on almost all the 16 seats from where trends were available after an hour of counting.

BJP’s mayor cand

New Delhi: A Delhi resident has urged former US president Barack Obama to wear a face mask during his scheduled town hall meeting in the city tomorrow.

Data scientist Amrit Sharma, who made the request in an open letter to Obama, said doing so would help generate awareness and catalyse action on air pollution.

Agartala: A BJP party member was shot dead by unidentified miscreants in Tripura’s Gomati district on Wednesday night, hours after Chief Election Commissioner A.K. Joti ended his two-day visit to the Left-ruled state to review poll preparedness and directed improvement in the law and order situation in order to hold state

Hubbali: The Hubbali Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) is facing the ire of residents after a seven-year-old boy who was bitten by stray dogs earlier this month died, apparently as there was no follow-up anti-rabies treatment.

Afridi Bepari, student of class two and resident of Mantur Road in Hubballi, was bitten by

New Delhi: Mirabai Chanu today became the first Indian in over two decades to claim a gold medal at the World Weightlifting Championship in Anaheim, USA, exorcising the ghosts of her forgettable outing at the Rio Olympics.

Chanu, who is employed with the Indian Railways, lifted 85kg in snatch and 109kg in clean and jer

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said achieving a 10 percent GDP growth rate is challenging and will depend on how the world is moving.

Speaking at the HT Leadership Summit here, he said India has done well by growing at 7-8 percent during the last three years. To scale to 10 percent rate is “very c

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate today conducted multiple searches in Delhi in connection with a Rs 5,000 crore money laundering probe against the directors and associates of Gujarat-based pharma firm Sterling Biotech.

Official sources said the raiding teams seized documents and computer hardware like hard drives