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Syed Ali Shah Geelani has been viewed as a key separatist leader in Kashmir Valley and has been vocal on advocating Kashmiri separatism. (Photo: AP)

Geelani's family terms statements attributed to him false, fabricated

The family also requested media and social media users not to drag the ailing leader or his kin into unnecessary...

25 Aug 2020 9:58 AM IST

Security personnel conduct a search operation at Lal Chowk Srinagar. PTI photo

Pakistan targets Indian forward areas in Rajouri along LOC

Nakas or makeshift checkpoints are laid on roads in the frontier and their locations changed randomly on daily basis

25 Aug 2020 9:50 AM IST

Army chief General Bipin Rawat addressed hi annual press conference in New Delhi. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Military options only if diplomatic talks with China fail: Bipin Rawat

The military stand-off between India and China is now nearing four months with no prospect of a resolution in near...

25 Aug 2020 8:49 AM IST

Now running between platforms to look for a toilet in CST will be a thing of the past as the authorities are planning to build a two-storey toilet by early 2020.

CSMT station to get Rs 1,642 crore makeover

The CSMT is a UNESCO recognised world heritage site and the biggest railway terminal in Mumbai

25 Aug 2020 8:33 AM IST

Vijay Wadettiwar was formerly the State Minister of Water Resources in the Government of Maharashtra. (Photo: Twitter | @WadettiwarVijay)

If RaGa wants, we will quit govt: Maharashtra Congress minister

If he asks us to leave the government, we will do it immediately"

25 Aug 2020 8:26 AM IST

Many people rely on the Delhi Metro Rail Corporations very active Twitter handle to receive updates regarding issues like this.

Metro trains may start after September 1

It is learnt the government may allow bars to reopen, but on condition that they sell liquor over the counter, only for...

25 Aug 2020 8:18 AM IST

NDRF rescue mission underway at the site of mishap. (Pic: Twitter)

Five storeyed building in Raigad collapses, 70 feared trapped

Teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been moved to the spot for rescue operations

25 Aug 2020 8:08 AM IST

Sonia Gandhi (Photo: PTI)

Congress retains Sonia as interim chief for six months

At CWC meet, 'hurt' Sonia asks to be relieved of party chief duties

25 Aug 2020 7:52 AM IST

Facebook has agreed to pay tax its French operations over a 10-year period from 2009, and to pay 50 percent more tax in the current year. The dispute between France and the United States on the digital giants tax had escalated to the extent that the United States in July unveiled heavy import duties on France. Many American technology firms have their EU headquarters in low-tax-regime countries. (Photo | Flickr - Jimmy Baikovicius)

Facebook agrees to pay 106 million euros to France in retrospective...

Payment of tax by US tech giants in countries where they earn revenue has been the subject of a longstanding conflict...

24 Aug 2020 10:19 PM IST

The record speed was achieved by transmitting data through a much wider range of colours of light, or wavelengths, than is typically used in optical fibre, the researchers said.

You can download Netflix entirely in a second at the record internet...

Researchers from University College London achieved a data transmission rate of 178 terabits a secondfive times faster...

24 Aug 2020 9:34 PM IST

According to a source, the appointment of Challa Sreenivasulu Setty as managing director (MD) of SBI has been cleared by the BBB, headed by former Department of Personnel and Training secretary BP Sharma, while the name of Ashwin Bhatia, MD & CEO of SBI Mutual Fund, has been kept as a standby for the same position.

SBI calls for MDs for interview over chairman post

While the interviews are for the chairman's position, the bank will soon have a vacancy for an MD too after Arijit Basu...

24 Aug 2020 7:00 PM IST

Representational image (PTI)

Validity of driving licences extended till Dec. 31, 2020

This is the third such extension after the earlier advisories on March 30 and June 9

24 Aug 2020 6:47 PM IST