Call it happenstance, Aug. 30 -- I picked up this latest offering from one of India's finest fiction writers Namita Gokhale in late August, and - as in the novel - in real life, a red alert has been d... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- Shashi Raut ordered his third Thums Up-three more than he had drunk in the last thirteen years. The sugar kept him alert as he waited. This was already his second evening of wait... Read More
Tokyo, Aug. 30 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met governors of 16 Japanese prefectures in Tokyo and called for strengthening state-prefecture cooperation under the India-Japan Special Str... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- Torrential rain and cloudbursts wreaked havoc across northern and western India on Friday, killing at least five people and leaving 11 missing in Uttarakhand, inundating large pa... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- Fresh spells of rain drenched large parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) on Friday, triggering severe waterlogging, traffic gridlocks, and widespread disruption. ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- The government has cleared the appointment of former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Urjit Patel as Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a three-y... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- The Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has urged a nationwide prohibition on the cultivation of Conocarpus, a fast-spreading exotic tree species, warning t... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- The national capital has logged its wettest August in a decade and a half, recording 399.8 mm of rainfall so far this month, according to data from the India Meteorological Depar... Read More
Faridabad, Aug. 29 -- Three men drowned after their car fell into a drain in Faridabad while they were returning from a pandal set up for Ganesh Chaturthi celebration, police said on Friday. The inc... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- A major disruption on Delhi Metro's Yellow Line turned Friday morning commutes into a test of patience, with services slowed to a crawl for nearly five hours between New Delhi an... Read More