New Delhi,  The Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday appointed Ruchira Kamboj as the next Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations. Kamboj is IFS 1987 batch and is presently Ambassador to Bhutan, and is expected to take up the assignment shortly.

Kamboj was earlier posted as Counsellor

Chennai,  Tamil Manila Congress president and former Union Minister, G.K. Vasan have called upon the youth of the nation to grab the opportunity and join in the Agnipath scheme.

In a statement on Tuesday, the senior leader said that everyone should support the Agnipath scheme and that the youth should no

Agartala,  The over a month-long hectic poll campaign for the June 23 by-elections to four assembly seats in Tripura came to an end on Tuesday even as a tense situation prevailed in some areas of these poll-bound constituencies. The campaign was marred by violent incidents.

Former BJP government minister

New Delhi,  The Bhartiya Janata Party is keeping a close watch on political developments in Maharashtra and exploring all the options, but cautious in its approach keeping the past experience in the state.

A political crisis hit the Maha Vikas Agadhi government on Tuesday morning when over 25 Shiv Sena M

Bengaluru,  Former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda on Tuesday demanded rollback of the textbook revised by the Karnataka government. Deve Gowda has written to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai in this regard.

Chief Minister Basavraj Bommai has responded to Gowda's letter and said that he will speak to E

New Delhi,  As survival threat looms over the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in Maharashtra with several Shiv Sena MLAs camping in Surat, the Congress has deputed senior leader and former Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath to defuse the political crisis.

Congress is one of the allies of the ruling MVA coal

New Delhi,  Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana on Tuesday said the courts in India assist and support arbitration and "leave substantive part of adjudication to arbitral tribunals".

In his address at the annual meet of Indo-German Chamber of Commerce on the theme "Arbitration in a Globalis

Bhubaneswar,  Three Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans were killed during an exchange of fire with Maoists in a remote forested region in Patdhara of Nuapada district on Tuesday, police officials said.

The jawans who sacrificed their lives include two assistant sub-inspectors Sishupal Singh and S

Srinagar,  A terror module of terrorist outfit LeT in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam has been busted with the arrest of three terrorist associates by a joint security force team on Tuesday, police said.

Police, along with army's 53 RR and the CRPF, arrested three terror associates, identified as Ashi

New Delhi,  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi left the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) headquarters at around 8 p.m. on Tuesday after being questioned for about nine hours in connection with the National Herald issue. Sources said he has been given a dinner break.

Gandhi is expected to return to the ED off