Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan will take over as Prime Minister on August 18 and Indian cricket legends Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Navjot Sidhu have been invited for the swearing-in ceremony, a party spokesperson said on Friday.
President Ramnath Kovind on Friday inaugurated the "One District One Product (ODOP)" summit in the state capital and expressed hope that the changing environment in Uttar Pradesh would make the state a trillion-dollar economy sooner than later.
The DMK on Friday demanded the nation's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, for party patriarch M. Karunanidhi who passed away in Chennai on August 7.
India expects to save up to Rs 12,000 crore in foreign exchange over the next four years through blending ethanol in petrol, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday.
Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwar said that the state government has take steps to identify the drugs sales racket to eradicate drugs menace in the state, for which a campaign was started across the state.
The Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Friday regretted blaming former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and thanked him for sheltering thousands of exiled Tibetans after they fled from their motherland.
India lost the opening pair of Murali Vijay (0) and Lokesh Rahul (8) before rain once again played spoilsport to the proceedings, shortly after the toss on the second day of the second Test against England at the Lord's here on Friday.
Due to heavy downpour in the city on Friday afternoon, a temporary flood situation was created at Kottara Chowki.
With growing cooperation between Saudi Arabia and India in the fields of education and health, Saudi Arabia has donated $5 million to the Jamia Hamdard University in New Delhi as a contribution towards the cost of building the medical college and expanding the existing Majeedia Hospital.
The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to respond to Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali's plea challenging the rejection of his bail plea by a trial court in a terror funding case.