In Madhya Pradesh, campaigning for the legislative assembly elections is on peak as it ends this evening. All the major political parties and candidates are making all out efforts to woo the voters.BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is addressing election rallies in Mandsour and Ujjain while Union minister Manish Tiwari, Srikant Jena, Santosh Choudhry […]
The Empowered Group of Ministers, EGoM on Telecom has approved hiking the reserve price by 25 per cent for the next round of auction of the mobile phone spectrum. The group, headed by Defence Minister AK Antony, agreed with the recommendations of the Telecom Commission to better the reserve or base price, suggested by the […]
India’s batting mainstay Virat Kohli became the fastest batsman to score 5000 runs in one-day internationals when he scored 86 against the West Indies in the first ODI in Kochi last night. Kohli achieved the feat in just 120 matches and 114 innings. He has so far amassed 5005 runs, which included 17 centuries and […]
Needing at least two wins in the last four games of the World Chess Championship, defending champion Viswanathan Anand lost 9th game against challenger Magnus Carlsen in Chennai on Thursday. A blunder in the 28th move by Viswanathan Anand gave the advantage to Magnus Carlsen, who won with black pieces again.Carlsen now leads Anand 6-3 […]
Falling for the third straight session, the Sensex at the Bombay Stock Exchange closed with a marginal loss of 12 points at 20,217, today. The Sensex had lost over 660 points in the previous two trading sessions. The Nifty at the National Stock Exchange dropped 4 points, to 5,995.
The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan has risen above 5,000. The country’s National Disaster Agency says that 5,209 people are now known to have lost their lives, with many more still missing. Haiyan, known as Yolanda in the Philippines, was one among the deadliest natural disaster in the country’s history. Floods in the Ormoc region […]
A new wave of attacks in different parts of Iraq today, killed at least 16 people and wounded 34, police said. It was the latest in a surge in violence that has swept across Iraq since April, when security forces carried out a bloody raid on a Sunni protest camp in the country’s north, pushing […]
The Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) has ruled out withdrawing its candidates in Delhi Assembly polls figuring in a sting operation. Briefing reporters in New Delhi this evening, party leader Yogendra Yadav said the AAP has gone through the tape and found that the contents of the tape have been doctored to malign the party’s image. He […]
The severe cyclonic storm, ‘Helen’ made a landfall at Machilipatnam in Krishna district this afternoon. Heavy rains were lashing the coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh which may continue for another 36 hours. Heavy rain may extend to Telangana region as the system will move westwards across coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The system is […]
Minister of State for Home Affairs RPN Singh has said that his ministry has asked to Goa Government to provide details in Tarun Tejpal case. Addressing a press conference in Jaipur Mr. Singh said that after receiving details from Goa government appropriate action will be taken by the government. Replying an another question the minister […]