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Dubai: Iran's culture minister Sunday dismissed President Donald Trump's latest threats, calling the US leader an "unstable, delusional figure." "Iranian society generally does not pay attention to his statements, as it believes he lacks personal, behavioral and verbal balance, and constantly shifts between contradictory positions,"...

New Delhi:  Two months after the first phase of the Census gets over, local bodies' government officials will collect granular data on civic amenities across 784 districts to come up with the country's District Census Handbook, or DCHB, containing a comprehensive record of civic infrastructure...

New Delhi: Responding to criticism that he did not raise Punjab's concerns in Parliament, sidelined AAP leader Raghav Chadha Sunday shared a video showing his interventions on key issues affecting the state. In the video, the Rajya Sabha MP from Punjab can be seen raising...

Islamabad: Pakistan Sunday said nearly 800 Afghan Taliban terrorists have been killed in the ongoing operation launched by the security forces in Afghanistan. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar shared the latest update on operation Ghazab lil-Haq, giving a summary of the losses suffered by the Tehreek-e-Taliban...

New York: A US Air Force officer whose jet was shot down in Iran hid in a mountain crevice and hiked up to 7,000 feet to evade the enemy before he was rescued by the American forces after a two-day life-or-death mission, the New York...

Chandigarh: Punjab Police has arrested two alleged perpetrators of a recent blast outside the BJP headquarters in Chandigarh, taking the total number of arrests in the case to seven, a senior police officer said Sunday. The arrested are allegedly part of an ISI-backed module, and...

Kargil: Climate Activist Sonam Wangchuk was accorded a warm welcome in Kargil Sunday, where he called for unity across Ladakh and the country and reiterated the demand for democratic and constitutional rights for the Union Territory. This marked the first visit of Sonam Wangchuk to...

New Delhi: The Central Information Commission has pulled up the IRCTC, the catering arm of the Indian Railways, over the denial of information on an RTI plea seeking to know if companies bidding for railway tenders had disclosed their alleged links to the Rail Neer...

Kolkata: Ahead of the Assembly elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has transferred the Officers-in-Charge (OCs) of several police stations in Kolkata, said an official Sunday. It has been learnt that Hirak Dalpati, in charge of Park Street police station, has been transferred to...

Kolkata: The West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Sunday, approached the Election Commission of India (ECI) with a complaint against four-time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member and senior advocate, Kalyan Banerjee, accusing him of issuing “inciteful, derogatory, hateful and provocative statements” which...