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Activist Easwar Rahul arrested for promoting religious enmity
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Oct 28 (ANI): Activist Rahul Easwar was on Sunday taken into custody for allegedly promoting enmity between groups on religious grounds.
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BJP MLA questions validity of MeToo accusations
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Oct 15 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Usha Thakur on Monday questioned the validity of accusations made as part of MeToo campaign, saying there is no point in levelling allegations years after 'compromising on moral grounds for selfish gains'.
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DCW Chief urges PM Modi to oust MJ Akbar
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 12 (ANI): The chairman of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), Swati Maliwal, on Friday penned a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to oust Minister of State (MoS) External Affairs MJ Akbar from the government on grounds of alleged sexual misconduct.
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India called off meeting on flimsy grounds: Pak FM
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [U.S.A.], Sep 30 (ANI): Pakistan Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Saturday begrudgingly accused India of cancelling the meeting between the foreign ministers of the two countries on flimsy ground.
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Hospital curtains may harbour dangerous bacteria: Study
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 28 (ANI): A recent study suggests that privacy curtains in hospitals can become breeding grounds for resistant bacteria, thus posing a threat to patient safety.
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Companies eyeing rural India to usher in the next wave of growth
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 26 (ANI): Despite rapid urbanization, nearly 70% of India still inhabits its hinterlands. Besides, the urban landscapes are now cluttered with the fast-emerging new brands, while the non-metropolitan cities and towns offer much more fertile grounds and opportunities.
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Hypocrisy of Parrikar to drop ministers on health grounds: Congress
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], Sep 24 (ANI): Goa Congress president Girish Chodankar on Monday termed Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's decision to drop two ministers from the state cabinet on health ground as 'laughable and hypocrite'.
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Lord's gets new groundsman ahead of World Cup
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], Sep 15 (ANI): The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has appointed Karl McDermott as the new head groundsman of the Lord's Cricket Ground ahead of the World Cup.
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`Why were people made to suffer during demonetisation?`
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 02 (ANI): Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government should reconsider on what grounds they wanted to talk about the Indian economy, citing the recent Reserve Bank of India (RBI) report that stated 99.3 per cent o
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Quit AAP on personal grounds: Ashish Khetan
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 25 (ANI): Journalist-turned-politician Ashish Khetan, who is the latest to join the list of leaders who stepped down from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), has said that he parted ways from the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led party on personal grounds.
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Trump asks Pompeo to cancel North Korea visit
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], Aug 25 (ANI): United States President Donald Trump asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to cancel his trip to North Korea, on grounds of not making significant progress regarding the denuclearisation deal.
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UP man barred from offering Namaz for participating in Kanwar Yatra
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Baghpat (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Aug 13 (ANI): A Muslim man was prevented from offering Namaz in a mosque in Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat district on grounds of participating in the recently-concluded Kanwar Yatra.
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