Panaji, March 18 (IANS) The Goa Tourism Department on Monday cancelled the traditional Shigmo festivities, scheduled to be held from March 21, in view of the demise of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Sunday.
State Tourism Director Sanjiv Gadkar said the festivities were cancelled as a mark of respect and...
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday moved a Delhi court seeking permission to question Altaf Ahmad Shah and another person in judicial custody in connection with the terror funding case.
Altaf Ahmad Shah is the son-in-law of Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani. The other...
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday sought the Election Commission's (EC) response on a plea by the 21 opposition parties seeking the audit of at least 50 per cent of EVMs with corresponding Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (VVPATs).
Issuing the notice to the EC, the...
Mumbai, March 15 (IANS) Six people have been reported dead and 32 injured in the past 12 hours since a portion of an overhead pedestrian bridge outside the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus came crashing down here.
Police registered cases against Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Indian Railway officials charging them...
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday received its order on the government's plea claiming privilege over the documents filed by petitioners - former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, journalist-turned politician Arun Shourie and activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan - in connection with the Rafale case.
After an hour-long hearing,...
Attari (Punjab), March 14 (IANS) Officials from India and Pakistan on Thursday held "detailed and constructive" discussions on the Kartarpur corridor which will enable pilgrims from India to travel to the Sikh shrine inside Pakistan through a dedicated corridor.
"Both sides held detailed and constructive discussions on various aspects and...
Panchkula (Haryana), March 14 (IANS) The hearing in the Samjhauta Express link train blast case was adjourned twice on Thursday following a strike by lawyers in Panchkula.
The hearing, which was to be held on Thursday morning, was adjourned by the judge till 2 p.m. Since the strike by lawyers...
Attari (Punjab), March 14 (IANS) Exactly a month after the Pulwama terror attack killed 40 CRPF troopers, Indian and Pakistani officials met on Thursday here, near Amritsar, to finalise modalities of the corridor to the Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara. This is the first time the two sides met after tension...
By Arul Louis New York, March 14 (IANS) Meeting US leaders in the wake of the Pulwama suicide attack and the regional tensions arising from it, India's Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale has evoked Washington's firm resolve to stand "shoulder-to-shoulder" with New Delhi in fighting terrorism.
As they sought to advance...
NP NEWS 24 ONLINE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi called out a wide spectrum of politicians, sportsmen, journalists and filmstars including Rahul Gandhi and Mamata Banerjee to Virat Kohli, Ranveer Singh and Vicky Kaushal and much more through his twitter handle by tweeting to urge them to help to bring...
