New Delhi: Former Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia was appointed as non-executive chairman of Bank of Baroda on Friday, according to a Personnel Ministry order.
Srinagar: Three security personnel were killed on Friday in an encounter with militants in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
Dhule: Congress president Rahul Gandhi Friday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he can't leave aside his public relations exercise even for five minutes.
Bengaluru: The ruling Congress-JD(S) alliance will win more than 20 out of total 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka during the coming Lok Sabha elections, state Congress chief Dinesh Gundu Rao claimed Friday.
Bengaluru: Karnataka BJP president B S Yeddyurappa Friday urged the party workers to live up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's expectation of winning 300 seats in the coming Lok Sabha elections by winning all the 28 seats from the state alone.
New Delhi: As many as 21,000 low birth-weight babies have been identified in Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh, who were born between October 2017 and October 2018, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said Friday.
New Delhi: Pakistan has turned down a request by India to send back Indian Air Force pilot Abhinandan Varthaman by aerial route and not through the Attari-Wagah land border, official sources said Friday.
Washington: An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck southeastern Peru on Friday, the US Geological Survey said.
New Delhi: Padma Vibhushan awardee Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan says as a young boy he used to practice in a graveyard so that he could sing without any inhibition or distraction and also without disturbing anyone.
Abu Dhabi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday raised the issue of terrorism at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting and said the menace is caused by "distortion of religion" and "misguided belief".
