Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the third Mahamana Express running between Vadodara and Varanasi from here today.

While the prime minister inaugurated the first run of the train remotely from here, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal joined him via video link from Vadodara along with senior officials of th

London: London’s transport regulator has decided not to renew the licence of the US-based cab aggregator Uber for safety reasons, authorities said today.

The ride-hailing company’s licence to operate in the British capital will expire on September 30.

Uber will not be issued a new private hire lic

New Delhi: The CBI has issued fresh summonses to RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and his son Tejashwi Yadav for questioning in connection with alleged graft in giving maintenance contracts of two IRCTC hotels to a private firm, officials said today.

Lalu, a former railway minister, has been asked to appear on September 25, and

Beijing: US President Donald Trump’s announcement that Beijing told its banks to stop dealing with North Korea is “not consistent with the facts,” a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said today, but he gave indication what steps China might be taking.

The spokesman, Lu Kang, said Beijing complies wit

Mumbai: Stocks ended the week on a distinctly bearish note after the Sensex tanked 447 points — the biggest fall in over nine months — and the Nifty ended below the 10,000 level on Friday as renewed geopolitical worries about North Korea rattled investors.

The rupee hit near six-month low against the dollar

Amidst continuous ceasefire violations by Pakistani forces on the Line of Control and International Border, top military commanders of both armies held telephonic talks to defuse the tension. When Pakistan alleged of its civilian killings in firing by Indian army, but Indian Army categorically told Pakistan that it reserves the right to “r

Mohali (Punjab): Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the economy is on a “downhill path” because of the “adventure” of demonetisation undertaken last year which was not required at all, either technically or economically.

Singh, a renowned economist considered to be the architect of

Mumbai:More than 180 flights at the Mumbai airport had to be cancelled in the past 24 hours due to heavy rainfall in the city and after a SpiceJet aircraft skidded off the runway and got stuck in mud, shutting down the main runway.

The Boeing 737, which skidded off the runway yesterday, was towed away to the paved area

Brussels:NATO on Wednesday condemned a UN treaty banning nuclear arms as unrealistic and warned that it risked undermining the international response to North Korea’s atomic weapons programme.

The United Nations adopted the treaty in July, though none of the nine countries that have nuclear weapons took part in s

Paris:French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said attacks on Myanmar’s Rohingya minority amounted to “genocide”.

France will work with other members of the UN Security Council for a condemnation of “this genocide which is unfolding, this ethnic cleansing”, Macron said in an intervie