'Dramatic' US offer to India

The Donald Trump administration is seeking to "dramatically deepen" cooperation with India in response to China's challenges to "international law and norms" in Asia, US...   | Read..

Central force caution

The Centre has advised states to set up a committee to ensure optimum use of state security forces instead of relying on central forces.   | Read..

CBSE set for one syllabus policy

One board, one exam, one curriculum is the new mantra of the Central Board of Secondary Education.   | Read..

Army gloves off on braid backlash

The army on Wednesday opened fire on a mob that had gheraoed soldiers after accusing them of shielding a braid-chopper in south Kashmir's Pahalgam, the first time the...   | Read..

Apology on note ban, cue for PM

Actor Kamal Haasan has apologised for "hastily" supporting demonetisation and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should accept his "mistake".   | Read..

Ganga on waste list

Ten of the world's rivers, including the Ganga and Brahmaputra, together account for about 90 per cent of plastic waste deposited by rivers into the sea, a study has...   | Read..

Americanisation of Booker

American short story writer George Saunders has won the Man Booker Prize for his first full-length novel, Lincoln In The Bardo, which tells of the night Abraham Lincoln...   | Read..

Undertrial shift bar

A Gopalganj judge has ruled that the inspector-general (prisons) is not empowered to transfer any undertrial prisoner from one jail to another and that too without prior...   | Read..

Piped gas launch

A pilot project to supply piped natural gas in the city will be launched at Nalco Nagar on Friday.   | Read..

Centre lens on girl death

Union food minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Wednesday said a central team would be sent to Jharkhand to probe the alleged hunger death of a 11-year-old Simdega girl on a day...   | Read..