newsCongress faced with unprecedented challenge: Maken
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Congress leader Ajay Maken, under whose leadership the party failed to win even a single seat in last month's Delhi assembly polls, Sunday took charge of the party's
Restore budget for women and child developmednt: Maneka Gandhi
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Sunday urged Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to restore part of the budgetary allocations slashed in the union budget
President, PM call for end to violence against women
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called for gender equity and decried violence against women as the government said it has initiated
Jan Dhan, pension scheme to help women in big way: Modi
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana and the pension scheme announced in the union budget could help women in a "big
Motor rally helped India-Nepal relations: Sushma Swaraj
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) The first India-Nepal friendship motor rally has "significantly contributed in strengthening the friendship" and the "already existing cultural ties" between the two
Vrindavan widows visit Taj Mahal
Agra, March 8 (IANS) The Taj Mahal on Sunday had special visitors -- widows from Vrindavan and Varanasi.As the women, dressed in white sarees, walked on the red sandstone pathways in twos and
Modi 'eagerly awaiting' Seychelles, Mauritius, Sri Lanka visit
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said he was looking forward to enhancing India's ties with the friendly Indian Ocean countries of Seychelles, Mauritius and Sri
Meet with Modi is Mamata's 'ghar wapsi': CPI-M
Kolkata, March 8 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Sunday described West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Monday meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "home coming"
Rally for road safety among women held in Delhi
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) A rally to promote road safety awareness among women was organised here on Sunday by International two-wheeler maker Honda in collaboration with the Delhi Traffic
Mulayam Singh Yadav recovering well: Doctors
Gurgaon, March 8 (IANS) Samajwadi Party chief and parliamentarian Mulayam Singh Yadav has recovered "well" from suspected swine flu even as some tests were still awaited, doctors at the Medicity
Campaign for child rights launched in Haryana
Panchkula (Haryana), March 8 (IANS) Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar launched a campaign on Sunday to spread awareness about child rights which will have vans touring nearly 300 villages
President calls for gender equity in India
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Terming equality, liberty and dignity as women's "sacred rights", President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday asked the people to reaffirm their commitment to ensure gender
Four kids burnt to death in Ghaziabad car blast
Ghaziabad, March 8 (IANS) Four children were burnt to death in Ghaziabad when fire crackers kept inside a car exploded on Sunday afternoon, police said.The incident took place in Farookh Nagar
Modi urged to safeguard women's rights
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) On the occasion of International Women's Day on Sunday, over 30 organisations and NGOs came together to "assert women's freedom" and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to
Defence ministry under monkey-attack: Parrikar
Panaji, March 8 (IANS) Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Sunday that his ministry is under "attack" by monkeys, adding that two army personnel were always on duty outside his office to
Very few officials know business rules: Parrikar
Panaji, March 8 (IANS) Very few people in government, both in the states as well as at the Centre, were familiar with rules of government business, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on
As rain damages crop, Punjab CM seeks compensation from Centre
Chandigarh, March 8 (IANS) With unseasonal rain damaging the standing wheat crop in several areas of Punjab, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday sought compensation for the farmers from
Togadia's entry banned in Karnataka coastal town
Bengaluru, March 8 (IANS) Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) international working president Pravin Togadia's entry into Udupi in Karnataka's coastal district has been banned for a week from Sunday to
SAARC Yatra Marks Incremental Movement with Pakistan: Experts
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar's four-nation SAARC Yatra has given a fillip to India's outreach to neighbours, more so with Pakistan, say experts.Starting March 1,
Heavy rush in trains in Bihar after Holi
Patna, March 8 (IANS) All the trains running from Bihar were on Sunday packed with thousands of migrant workers returning to their places of work across the country two days after Holi."After
