New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday announced that the Indian security forces dismantled the ISI-backed Shahzad Bhatti Network (SBN) ahead of Independence Day, by thwarting the terror group's plan of carrying out attacks. The...
Kolkata, Aug 17 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Monday, extended the interim protection from coercive police action, including arrest, for the Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, in...
Kolkata, Aug 17 (IANS) Due to the combination of active low pressure area and monsoon winds, the Met office on Monday predicted heavy rain across south Bengal districts including Kolkata for the next two days. A red alert for heavy...
Mumbai, Aug 17 (IANS) Maharashtra’s ballooning public debt reaching Rs 9.37 lakh crore, has placed it second in absolute terms behind Tamil Nadu. While absolute numbers paint a stark picture, critical analysis reveals a structural squeeze on the state's public...
Bhubaneswar, Aug 17 (IANS) With floodwaters continuing to affect several parts of Odisha, BJD president and Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Naveen Patnaik on Monday deputed three senior party leaders to visit Jajpur, Bhadrak and Balasore districts and take...
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) launched a scathing attack at senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Monday, over his remark that he was "proud to be a dimagi Naxal", asserting that the Maoism problem, which the...
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) Expressing serious displeasure, the World Bank has warned the Pakistan government that redirecting funds from a multi-billion-rupee resilient housing programme for the flood-affected population in Balochistan to infrastructure projects would further aggravate poverty in the...
Kolkata, Aug 17 (IANS) After seven people died in a devastating hotel fire at Tarapith in West Bengal's Birbhum district, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from Rampurhat Assembly Constituency, Dhruba Saha, accused the local development authority of giving permission...
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) The US is pushing for the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), a planned undersea electricity link connecting Greece, Cyprus and Israel, to be taken up as a top priority in Greece’s Eastern Mediterranean strategy, according to...
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) Expressing serious displeasure, the World Bank has warned the Pakistan government that redirecting funds from a multi-billion-rupee resilient housing programme for the flood-affected population in Balochistan to infrastructure projects would further aggravate poverty in the...
Galle, Aug 17 (IANS) Niroshan Dickwella and Sonal Dinusha mounted a stirring second-session counter-attack for Sri Lanka by striking unbeaten half-centuries to lead a brilliant recovery in the second session on day three’s play of the first Test against India.By...
Golfpark Holzhäusern (Switzerland), Aug 17 (IANS) Diksha Dagar fell out of the Top-10 on the LET order of Merit after a missed cut at the Swiss Ladies Open this week.Diksha, who had reached Top-6 at one stage, is now 11th...