Shillong: The newly appointed Meghalaya Governor, Ganga Prasad was today sworn in as the 17th governor of the state at a function at the Raj Bhavan here.

Prasad is also the fifth governor to have been sworn in in as many years since July 2013.

The Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court. Justice Dinesh Mah

Kolkata: Argentine football legend Diego Maradona’s visit to the city has been postponed for the fourth time due to security issues as his trip is clashing with the FIFA Under-17 World Cup.

A day after the organisers claimed that Maradaona’s trip was “confirmed” for October 8-9 following a three

Navi Mumbai: Having given a tough fight to Brazil and England in the warm-up games, a confident New Zealand side will be squaring off with much-fancied Euro U-17 semi-finalists Turkey in the opening group league game of the FIFA U-17 World Cup, here tomorrow.

New Zealand lost 1-2 to Brazil and were impressive in t

New Delhi: Two persons were arrested and a juvenile apprehended for allegedly snatching the camera of a 32-year-old Belarus woman inside the Humayun Tomb in southeast Delhi, the police said today.

The woman, Volha Thomus, approached the police yesterday with a complaint about two men snatching her camera near the

New York: Dan Brown is once again taking on the big questions.

“Will God survive science?” asks the author of the blockbuster “The Da Vinci Code” and other philosophical-religious thrillers during a recent interview. “All the gods of our past have fallen. So the question now is: Are w

Karachi: A suicide attacker today blew himself up at a Sufi shrine packed with devotees in Pakistan’s troubled Balochistan province, killing at least 12 people and injuring eight others, police officials said.

The attacker tried to enter the Dargah Fatehpur in the Jhal Magsi district of Balochistan and blew himse

Mumbai: Oman has revised the tourist visa for people from India, China and Russia in order to attract more tourists from these countries.

Lubaina Sheerazi, India Representative, Ministry of Tourism, Oman, said, “The outbound segment in India is on a rise with the Indian economy booming and increasingly better sta