New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) US Secretary of State John Kerry called up External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to congratulate her on ministerial posting and discussed “re-energising strategic” ties, an official said Thursday. Kerry called up Sushma Swaraj late Wednesday night. It was the first congratulatory call that she received from one of her counterparts around […]
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) It was a humid Thursday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded a notch below average at 26.3 degrees Celsius. The Met Office has forecast a clear day. “The skies will remain clear with the maximum temperature likely to hover around 42 degrees Celsius,” said an official of […]
Hyderabad, May 29 (IANS) The day-long shutdown called by TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao Thursday protesting the Centre’s ordinance to hand over 200 villages of Telangana to Andhra Pradesh for Polavaram irrigation project, affected normal life. Buses of state-owned Road Transport Corporation (RTC) went off the roads in all 10 districts including Hyderabad. Shops, hotels and […]
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) US Secretary of State John Kerry called up External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to congratulate her, an official said Thursday. “The US secretary called up Sushma Swaraj late last night (Wednesday). He congratulated her and the party (BJP) on its election victory,” Syed Akbaruddin, spokesperson, ministry of external affairs told IANS. […]
Kochi, May 28 (IANS) Blaming Rahul Gandhi for the party’s electoral reverses in the Lok Sabha election, a senior leader in Kerala Wednesday termed the Congress vice president a “joker” and demanded he be removed from his posts if he does not step down voluntarily. T.H. Mustafa, a former minister, also demanded Gandhi’s sister Priyanka Gandhi […]
Kolkata, May 28 (IANS) Alipore zoo authorities here are investigating the matter of escape of a male zebra Wednesday from an enclosure where it was undergoing treatment. The animal has been captured and put in a separate area. Around 8 a.m. Wednesday, zoo-keepers discovered that the zebra was missing from the treatment area, a specially built […]
New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) Consumer durables manufacturer Philips Wednesday re-entered the Indian mobile phone market after a gap of two years, launching four devices ranging from a basic feature phone to an android-based smart mobile phone priced between Rs.1,960 and Rs.20,650. “We are entering into the market again with a whole range of feature and […]
Jammu, May 28 (IANS) Security forces Wednesday busted a guerrilla hideout in the hilly Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir and recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition, officials said. “Based on specific intelligence inputs about a hideout, a joint operation was launched by the army and Jammu and Kashmir Police in Gundoh (Doda) area,” […]
Mumbai, May 28 (IANS) A benchmark index of Indian equities markets Wednesday closed flat — only 6.58 points or 0.03 percent up — a day after the markets plunged 167 points on profit bookings. Heavy selling pressure was observed in metal, automobile, oil and gas and consumer durables. However, healthy buying took place in information technology […]
Chandigarh, May 28 (IANS) With his daughter-in-law Harsimrat Kaur Badal taking over as the union food processing industries minister, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Wednesday approved the setting up of a mega food park in Ludhiana. A spokesman of the chief minister’s office said the food park, spread over an area of 100 acres at […]