Kedarnath: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday attacked the Congress for rejecting his proposal in June 2013 when he was Chief Minister of Gujarat for redevelopment of the revered Himalayan shrine of Kedarnath that was badly damaged in the catastrophic flash floods.

“The floods of 2013 had made all of us

Dhaka: Bangladesh’s embattled former premier Khaleda Zia has surrendered before a local court that granted her bail in graft and defamation cases, a week after it issued an arrest warrant against her.

“The bail was granted on conditions that she would inform the court before leaving the country in future,&r

New Delhi: Disinvestment-bound Air India has sought proposals for short term loans worth Rs 1,500 crore to meet “urgent” working capital needs, according to a document.

This is the second time in little over a month that the flagship carrier has floated tenders for short tenure loans even as the government

Bhubaneshwar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today inaugurated 182 drinking water supply projects and laid foundation for 555 similar schemes.

Patnaik launched the projects for the urban poor people through video conferencing at an indoor stadium in Cuttack.

“This will give cent per cent pipe wate

New Delhi: The Indian Railways will soon cut short the running time of over 500 long distance trains by up to two hours, a senior railway official said today.

The new timings will be updated in the November timetable of the railways, he said.

Following directions from Railway Minister Piyush Goyal earlier thi

New Delhi: The ban on sale of firecrackers in Delhi-NCR may not have had the desired impact on air quality, but major hospitals in the national capital have reported less burn injury cases this Diwali than the year before.

Centre-run Safdarjung Hospital and RML Hospital, both of which have big burn units, received

Mogadishu (Somalia): The US military says it carried out a drone strike this week against al-Shabab in Somalia, shortly after the extremist group was blamed for the country’s deadliest attack.

The US Africa Command tells The Associated Press that the strike occurred Monday about 35 miles southwest of the cap

London: Ed Sheeran has sworn off alcohol for a speedy recovery after the singer broke his right arm in a cycling accident recently.

The 26-year-old musician has also cancelled his scheduled gigs in Taipei, Osaka, Seoul, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Talking to the Daily Star newspaper, Sheeran said, “Appare

Odense: H S Prannoy recorded his second successive win over three-time Olympic silver medallist Lee Chong Wei, while Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth also registered contrasting wins to advance to the quarterfinals of the Denmark Open Super Series Premier here.

Just four months back, Prannoy had created a flutter

Bengaluru: John Distilleries Private Limited (JDPL), a leading liquor maker in India, today announced that Sazerac Company, a family-owned spirits company in the United States has acquired an equity stake in it.

Sazerac, owners of brands including Fireball, Southern Comfort, Buffalo Trace Bourbon, Pappy Van Winkle Bour