PM joins school children, helps clean school in Delhi as part of ‘Swachhta Hi Seva’
New Delhi, Sep 15: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday visited a school in Paharganj Delhi and picked a broom and joined the ...
India outlines series of measures to stem declines in rupee
New Delhi: The Indian government late on Friday announced a slew of steps aimed at stemming a steep decline in the rupee, which has ...
Japan’s commercial whaling bid rejected by IWC
Japan’s determined bid to return to commercial whale hunting was rejected by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) Friday ...
Justice Ranjan Gogoi appointed new Chief Justice of India
The President has appointed Justice Ranjan Gogoi as the 46th Chief Justice of India.
Justice Gogoi will assume office from ...
US for India’s membership in NSG
Washington, Sep 14: A senior Trump Administration official has said that India has not been able to secure membership of the Nuclear ...
Sebi may consider proposal to allow foreign entities in commodity mkts
New Delhi, Sep 14: With an aim to deepen the commodity derivatives market, regulator Sebi is likely to consider a proposal to allow ...
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos commits $2 billion to help homeless, pre-schools
Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc’s founder and the world’s richest person, on Thursday said he will commit $2 billion to helping ...
Colombian zoo celebrates birth of endangered spider monkey
A zoo in Colombia is celebrating the birth of a baby spider monkey, a rare species in danger of extinction.
The monkey was born on ...
Bangladesh says it won’t assimilate Rohingya Muslims
Hanoi: Bangladesh has no plans to take in hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees permanently, its foreign secretary said ...
IWC vote backs aboriginal whale hunts — with new quotas
The International Whaling Commission on Wednesday cast a rare strong vote in favor of whale hunting — but strictly for small ...