Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:16:29
Mangaluru, Jan 22 (PTI) Adithya Rao, who is suspected to have planted an explosive device at Mangaluru international airport, was kept out of the family two years back after he started indulging in eccentric acts like hoax bomb calls, his brother Akshath said on Wednesday.
Talking to reporters at his home in Chilimbi here, he said despite several pleas from his father and other family members,
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Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:13:38
Bengaluru: Ahead of the launch of India's maiden human spaceflight venture 'Gaganyaan' in December 2021, the ISRO will undertake two unmanned missions in December 2020 and June 2021, its chairman K Sivan said on Wednesday.
Addressing the inaugural session of a symposium on "Human Spaceflight and Exploration - Present Challenges and Future Trends," Sivan said the Gaganyaan mission not only aims
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Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:11:32
New Delhi, Jan 22 (PTI) India slipped 10 places to 51st position in the 2019 Democracy Index's global ranking, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit, which cited "erosion of civil liberties" in the country as the primary cause for the downtrend.
India's overall score fell from 7.23 in 2018 to 6.90 in the Index that provides a snapshot of the current state of democracy worldwide for 165 i
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Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:10:07
Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday slammed the Centre over economic issues, saying inflation and unemployment may lead to starvation in the country.
He accused the Centre of diverting people's attention from real issues and said disagreement today was being taken as sedition.
"People are very concerned about what is happening in the country today. Disagreement today m
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Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:09:23
New Delhi, Jan 22 (PTI) Ishan Sharma who saved a Russian tourist from two robbers, Omkar Singh who holds the world record for the youngest theoretical author and youngest pianist in India Gauri Mishra were among those who were given the Bal Shakti Puraskar 2020 by President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday.
Kovind conferred the awards to 49 children in the age group of 5-18 years at a ceremony
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Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:08:06
Darjeeling (WB), Jan 22 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday led a 4-km-long protest march in Darjeeling hills against the new citizenship law.
The rally began at Bhanu Bhakta Bhavan near Mall in Darjeeling and will conclude in the Chowkbazar area.
Earlier, she had led ten protest marches and six rallies in various parts of the state against the CAA and the proposed
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Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:06:02
New Delhi, Jan 22 (PTI) As many as 1,029 candidates have filed 1,528 nominations for the Delhi Assembly polls on February 8, according to data shared by the poll panel.
On the last day of filing nominations on Tuesday, over 800 nominations were filed for the 70 assembly constituencies, which go to polls on February 8.
As many as 1,029 candidates, including 187 women, have filed a total o
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Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:52:45
A nine-year-old Aarthi Kiran Shet of Uttara Kannada district has been selected for the award of National Bravery, which will be given by the department of Indian child welfare, as announced by the central government.
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Wed, 22 Jan 2020 14:06:47
Nagpur,: The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court on Wednesday refused to hear a PIL challenging constitutional validity of the Citizenship Amendment Act, saying the Supreme Court is already hearing petitions pertaining to the issue.
A division bench of Justices R K Deshpande and A M Borkar permitted the petitioner, social worker Urmila Kowe, to approach the apex court.
The bench noted that si
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