Railways on Thursday offered discounts to customers to gain lost ground in freight share, which has been witnessing a decline over the years.
Earlier reports said the new Chinese space station will initially be much smaller than the ISS, which weighs 420 tonnes, but could be expanded for future scientific research and international cooperation.
At least eight miners were killed in a methane gas explosion in a coal mine in western Ukraine`s Lviv region on Thursday.
Assam assembly today condemned the attack on the Foreigners Tribunal member in Goalpara and expressed satisfaction over steps taken by the state government to ensure security of the judiciary.
Delhi university student Gurmehar Kaur issue rocked the Haryana Assembly today, with opposition INLD seeking state minister Anil Vij's apology for his tweet that dubbed her anti-ABVP campaign supporters as pro-Pakistan, liable to be thrown out of the country.
A parliamentary committee in Pakistan has expressed apprehensions about selling a flight-worthy Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft to a German museum, and asked the airline to submit a report on the matter.
Senior Democrats have called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign after it emerged that he failed to disclose two meetings with Russia`s Ambassador to Washington during the US election campaign.
The Odisha government has facilitated self-employment opportunities for 11.21 lakh youth through 2.49 lakh MSME units in the state, a minister said on Thursday.
A court in Saudi Arabia has convicted two Saudi citizens of trying to organise mass protests in 2011 inspired by Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia and sentenced them to three and four years in jail, local media reported on Thursday.
Umar Akmal was jailed for a day in February 2014 after fighting a traffic warden who stopped him for breaking a traffic signal.
Pakistan government on Thursday approved the merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province to bring the impoverished and politically deprived tribal region at par with the rest of the country.
In a stern message to Punjab, the Supreme Court today said its verdict allowing construction of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal in Haryana and Punjab has to be implemented.
The Election Commission has cancelled the February 19 voting at booth number 154 of Sawaijpur assembly seat in Hardoi district and has ordered re-poll for it on March 8.
Two years after the Centre cleared the decks for its auction, Taj Mansingh Hotel will finally go under the hammer, the NDMC on Thursday decided, as it also cancelled Le Meridien Hotel's licence over dues of Rs 523 crore.
Despite being one of the most consistent batsman for the team across formats, Rahane has looked off-colour lately, as he has scored 204 runs in his last five matches.
Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited (BRBNMPL), an RBI subsidiary, started printing the Rs 2000 notes two and a half months before the November 8 demonetisation.
RSS clarified on Thursday that the views expressed by Kundan Chandrawat on Kerala CM are not official statement of the sangh.
China's annual political season will begin tomorrow, the first since President Xi Jinping was elevated as the "core leader" of the ruling Communist party.
China on Thursday said its economy is expected to remain the "strongest engine" for world economic growth this year despite the slowdown.
BJP national president Amit Shah has promised to end the crippling indefinite economic blockade in Manipur if BJP is voted to power.
Union Minster Arun Jaitley today said nationalism is considered a bad word only in India even as he accused the opposition parties of "orchestrating" the the Ramjas College row ahead of the UP Assembly polls.
Digital wallet company Mobikwik on Thursday said it would stay firm to its three-fold growth projection to USD 10 billion gross merchandise value by the end of 2017 despite the arrival of Aadhaar-based biometric payment system.
But while the result silenced predictions of another Indian whitewash against the Australians, batting legend Tendulkar is convinced the hosts will put it behind them by the time the second Test starts.
As many as 1064 people, including the security personnel, have lost their lives in various Naxal incidents in Chhattisgarh during 2010-16, the Legislative Assembly was informed today.
The campaigning saw BJP state president KP Maurya likening rivals SP, Congress and BSP to different types of venomous "snakes" and "social cancer" and urging people to eliminate them by voting for the BJP.
