Beijing : China will return an underwater US drone seized by a naval vessel this week in the South China Sea, both countries said on Saturday, but Beijing complained that Washington had been “hyping up” the incident. US President-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to take an aggressive approach in dealing with China over its […]
ADEN : A suicide bomber killed at least 43 soldiers in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on Sunday, officials there said, a week after an attack by the militant Islamic State group killed 50 troops nearby.The officials said the soldiers were queuing to collect salaries near a military base in the Khor Maksar […]
New Delhi : The Centre has decided to set up a single permanent Tribunal to adjudicate all inter-state river water disputes subsuming existing tribunals, a step aimed at resolving grievances of states in a speedy manner. Besides the Tribunal, the government has also proposed to float some benches by amending the Inter-State Water Disputes Act, […]
New Delhi : The year 2014 witnessed 2.37 lakh road accidents on national and state highways across the country that left at least 85,462 people dead and 2.59 lakh injured. These findings in official statistics placed before the Supreme Court, which noted that as per 2009 data, India had reported the highest number of road accident […]
New Delhi : The Election Commission has urged the central government to ban anonymous contributions of over Rs 2000 made to political parties to stop black money from being used in next year’s assembly elections. Although there is no constitutional or statutory prohibition on political parties’ receiving anonymous donations by political parties, they need to […]