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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a USD 2.5 billion project to electrify all of the countrys households by the end of 2018.

Despite govt's claim, many houses yet to be electrified

In fact, even in Assam, there are still a few unelectrified households which are yet to be electrified as on July 19,...

29 July 2019 1:38 AM IST

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal. (Photo: File)

Assam proposes Attari-like function at Bangladesh border

Sonowal also informed that efforts are afoot to set up another airport at Barak Valley to boost economic growth of the...

29 July 2019 1:27 AM IST

Indian soldiers after winning a battle during the Kargil wa

Wounds fester, strife continues; dispute unsettled after 20 years

Operation Vijay was an intensification of Pakistan's fourth war against India, which, since the late 1980s, continues...

29 July 2019 1:20 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi and Amit shah (Photo: File/PTI)

PM Modi, Amit Shah to be at BJP meet on J&K tomorrow

BJP working chief J.P. Nadda will also attend the meeting, to be held at the party headquarters on July 30.

29 July 2019 12:36 AM IST

Photo released by Chinas Xinhua News Agency shows Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shaking hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 30, 2018. (Photo: AP)

Huawei row may escalate, hit PM Modi-Xi Jinping meet

The department of telecommunications is expected to take a final decision soon, and the MEA has already given its inputs...

29 July 2019 12:23 AM IST

Hold polls for CWC and all Congress posts: Shashi Tharoor

Tharoor also backed Punjab CM Amarinder Singh's assessment that a young leader would be more suitable to lead the...

29 July 2019 12:19 AM IST

Speaker Ramesh Kumar

Speaker disqualifies 14 more MLAs ahead of Karnataka vote

The Congress-JD(S) combine has the support of only 100 MLAs (excluding the Speaker), indicating which way the trust vote...

29 July 2019 12:13 AM IST

Karnataka governor Vajubhai Vala administers the oath of office to B.S. Yediyurappa as Karnataka chief minister during the swearing-in ceremony at Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru on Friday. (Photo: AFP)

Speaker's action adds a new twist in Karnataka

The trust vote arithmetic is left to the House floor, where it will be tested today, but many of the Speaker's steps...

29 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

She has been admitted in a hospital in Lucknow.

Unnao rape case: Woman who accused UP MLA of rape, hit by truck;...

Her mother and lawyer Mahendra Singh died in the accident while she is critically injured.

28 July 2019 9:44 PM IST

Meghalaya Assembly speaker Donkupar Roy. (Photo: ANI)

Meghalaya Assembly Speaker Donkupar Roy passes away

PM Modi, Meghalaya Governor, Meghalaya CM condole his death.

28 July 2019 9:15 PM IST

Kerala Cong workers sprinkle cow dung water to purify' where Dalit MLA...

Kerala Minister for Health, Social Justice and Woman and Child Development, K K Shailaja condemned the attack.

28 July 2019 8:58 PM IST

The motorcycle is registered in the name of a person named, Kapil, police said. (Photo: ANI)

Man jumps off Yamuna bridge in Delhi

According to the police, the incident took place around 9 am.

28 July 2019 8:36 PM IST