India, Dec. 23 -- India's rural employment programme, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (or MGNREGS), has long attracted two criticisms. First, that it is wasteful, and plagued... Read More
India, Dec. 23 -- The earliest radio station in Asia, Radio Ceylon, turned 100 last week. Nearly a decade older than All India Radio (AIR), the Sri Lankan radio service was once the Indian Subcontinen... Read More
India, Dec. 23 -- China-Japan ties are likely to see a prolonged chill after newly minted Japanese Prime Minister (PM), Sanae Takaichi, described a Taiwan Strait conflict as a "survival-threatening si... Read More
India, Dec. 23 -- The Malayalam movie actor-director, Sreenivasan, who passed away at the age of 69, had become a legend in his own time. His filmography includes two directorial ventures, screenplays... Read More
Lucknow, Dec. 23 -- Three persons were killed and seven others seriously injured after a speeding car rammed into a stationary truck from behind on the Purvanchal Expressway near Darpipur village unde... Read More
Lucknow, Dec. 23 -- A 29-year-old man was killed on Monday morning after a private bus, allegedly driving on the wrong side, hit his motorcycle on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway service road. The acciden... Read More
LUCKNOW, Dec. 23 -- The King George's Medical University (KGMU) administration on Monday set up a six-member committee under the Vishakha guidelines to probe the Saturday's suicide attempt bid by a wo... Read More
Bhopal/Jabalpur, Dec. 23 -- The Madhya Pradesh high court on Monday directed the state government to dispose the residual ash - generated from the incinerated toxic waste at the Union carbide plant - ... Read More
Panaji, Dec. 23 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led ruling alliance in Goa swept the zilla panchayat elections, winning 32 of the 50 seats across the state, according to results announced by the s... Read More
New Delhi, Dec. 23 -- External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Monday travelled to Sri Lanka as a special envoy of the Prime Minister for meetings with the leadership in Colombo to follow-up on relie... Read More