Seventeen coal miners die after blast in west China
Seventeen coal miners have died after being trapped by a weekend gas explosion in northwestern China, an official news agency reported on Monday. The miners were trapped Saturday by the explosion at a mine 120 km from Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region, the Xinhua News Agency said. It said... read more »
Seoul warns Japan not to undermine N Korea nuclear arms abandonment
Seoul: South Korea warned Japan on Thursday against undermining efforts to force North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons, after Tokyo announced the lifting of selected sanctions on Pyongyang.Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said a number of unilateral sanctions would be revoked after progress... read more »
PM Narendra Modi inaugurates Udhampur-Katra rail link, calls first train &#...
I dedicate this ‘Shree Shakti Express’ to the nation, says PM Modi as he concludes his address. My priority is to win the hearts of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, says PM. People in the remotest parts of the country should be a part of national development, says Modi. J&K is... read more »
AAP petitions for fresh polls
A delegation of Aam Aadmi Party MLAs led by national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday met President Pranab Mukherjee and requested him to dissolve the Delhi Assembly and get fresh polls conducted at the earliest. While pushing its case for another election, the party, in a memorandum submitted... read more »
Modi’s Gujarat Meet Tomorrow Triggers Talk of Search for Successor
Gandhinagar – Narendra Modi, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, has called a meeting tomorrow evening of all his party’s state legislators in Gandhinagar, triggering... read more »
Kejriwal Says His Fight is With Modi, Incorrect Says Congress’ Ajay Rai
Varanasi – As voting got underway in this high-profile constituency, Arvind Kejriwal, the head of the Aam Aadmi Party, declared that his is a direct fight with Narendra Modi, the... read more »
UP votes, Varanasi in the fray in last phase
Polling began on Monday morning on a peaceful note for 18 seats in the crucial last phase of Lok Sabha polls in eastern Uttar Pradesh, to decide the fate of 328 candidates, including... read more »
Stock markets hits record high in India
India’s stock exchange markets, BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) Sensex and Nifty hit a record high on Friday posting their biggest daily gains since September. The general impression is... read more »
Nigeria’s president vows to defeat Boko Haram
Nigeria’s president has said that his country will win its “war on terror”, despite another attack by Boko Haram fighters in the northeast that reportedly killed hundreds. Speaking... read more »
