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With Delhi choking with smog created by burning of paddy straw in neigbhouring states, noted agri-scientist M S Swaminathan on Sunday suggested to Prime Minister Narendra Modi ways to commercialise the straw to help tide over the problem.

Three photojournalists from the Times of India, Mid-Day and the Hindustan Times were allegedly beaten by the guards on Friday last following a scuffle when ousted Tata Sons Chairman Cyrus Mistry had arrived to chair the board meeting of Indian Hotels in M...

The protestors from various citizen's group of Delhi demanded that government should take effective measures to curb the rising air pollution immediately, otherwise they will be forced to hold protest at Jantar Mantar every Sunday.

A terrorist was on Saturday killed and a soldier injured as an encounter broke out between ultras and security forces after the latter launched a search operation in a village in Shopian district of south Kashmir, police said.

As Delhi suffers its worst smog in 17 years, there is much gloom among officials working to curb crop burning in the neighbouring states of Haryana, Punjab, and parts of western Uttar Pradesh.

"Entry of any country into the Nuclear Suppliers Group needs certain procedures which are to be followed. It is not that simple," Ma told reporters here.

Schools running under the three municipal corporations of Delhi have been ordered to be closed on Saturday in view of the heavy smog, the worst the national capital has faced in 17 years.

According to AP intelligence reports Naxals are regrouping in Visakhapatnam and Vizianagaram area close to Orissa border

The Centre has called a meeting with Delhi's neighbouring states on Friday to discuss the national capital's deteriorating air quality.

Following the Uri attack in which 18 soldiers were killed, India had called for a boycott of SAARC, a move that was backed by Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.

Defending the MP government over the alleged encounter of 8 SIMI activists, Chairman of All India Anti-Terrorist Front (AIATF) Maninderjeet Singh Bitta said he salutes Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and the state police for "killing terrorists".

"In this NRIs can play the role of more than a bridge. They can help promote trade and investment and growing cultural relations," he said.

An Inter-ministerial committee of the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry has recommended that a Hindi news channel be taken off air for a day after it concluded that the broadcaster had revealed "strategically-sensitive" details while covering th...

The US is "more backward" than India when it comes to leadership role for women, according to H R Shah, the CEO of TV Asia, the largest South Asian TV network in America.

India on Wednesday summoned Pakistan Deputy High Commissioner here and conveyed its "grave concern" as well as strong protest at the recent escalation in incidents of ceasefire violations by Pakistan on border which have resulted in several fatalities on...

Manipuri rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila on Wednesday for the first time attended the anniversary programme to commemorate Malom Massacre which had prompted her to go on a 16-year-long hunger strike demanding the withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special...