An advisory for the Hajj pilgrims of India has been issued by the external affairs ministry for the prevention of epidemic swine flu while they fly to Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
 
The advisory restricts the pilgrims from sharing greetings in the form of shaking the hands ...

Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid mentioned on Monday that government is in the process of finalizing a bill which will ensure that the Wakf boards present across India will function in a streamlined fashion.  He mentioned that the bill will be introduced during Parliament’s ...

The Central Industrial Security Forces, CISF, has rolled out a new section of their website, www.cisf.gov.in, called the ‘lost and found’, which will help the travellers to trace the baggage which they missed from an airport.
 
CISF handles the security of 57 Indian airports. ...

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, in an attempt to shed India’s tag of being ‘diabetes capital of the world’, has made the diabetes and hypertension tests for all the villagers above 35 mandatory.  The test kits have been made easy and affordable.
 
"We have a ...

Nikhil Kumar, the former Police Commissioner of Delhi, has been appointed as the New Governor of Nagaland on Sunday.
 
Nikhil Kumar will be taking over as the Nagland governor from the Governor of Manipur, Gurbachan Jagat, who has been assumed the additional charge as the Governor of ...

Rao Birender Singh, the ex-Haryana Chief Minister and a former minister of the union cabinet, passed away on Wednesday in Gurgaon following a cardiac arrest. He was 88.
 
He had held the post of the chief minister from March to November 1967and was the second person to rule after Haryana ...

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani on Monday told that he wants to quit politics. Advani, who was visiting Swami Vishwesh Teerth at the Udupi Pejawar Math in New Delhi, told his spiritual mentor he keen on retiring from politics.
 
But his spiritual guru has asked him not to ...

The National Commission for Women has formed teams for probing the flesh trade channels which have been reported from Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Delhi to the Middle East.
 
"The NCW has been deeply disturbed with the recent spurt of missing girls in NCR (National Capital ...

Unique Identification Authority chief Nandan Nilekani said on Saturday that mobile phones will be used for verifying the credentials of a person. The mobile numbers will now be used for authentication at the banks, for availing gas connection as well as while looking out for rural ...

Indian Ruchira Gupta, a journalist and activist, has been conferred with Third Annual Clinton Global Citizen Award. She has been awarded for the work she has done for countering human trafficking in four Indian states.
 
Ruchira Gupta, who is chief of Apne Aap Women Worldwide, received the ...

If you are mentally strong, you can do anything. Indian Air Force para jump instructor Wing Commander Ramesh Chandra Tripathi has shown this death defying act from the top of the Mt. Everest. Six months ago, he had suffered a brain haemorrhage, due to which he had to be resisted from the strenuous ...

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) scientist K. Santhanam, putting forward a strong opposition against National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan’s statement on Monday said that he was "barking up the wrong tree". He also added that the 1998 thermonuclear tests had ...

Do you know that there exists rice which can be eaten without cooking it? Yes, it is true. The soft varieties of rice, which are grown in Assam as well as other North-Eastern states of India, can be eaten by just soaking it in plain water for some time.
 
Soft rice, as it is popularly known, ...

Minister of State for Home Ajay Maken told on Saturday that measures for countering human trafficking as well as crimes against women have been strengthened by the combine efforts from Central and State governments.
 
"The home ministry along with the United Nations Office on Drugs ...

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has mentioned that National Patient Safety Policy will be launched in India which will enable a safer healthcare environment for patients.
 
He said that even though there are numerous national programmes which are meant for the controlling and eradicating of ...

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has emphasized on the deployment of technology and innovation by police agencies to combat the current–age terrorist attacks.
 
"This conference must mark the beginning of a process of reinventing the security system in the country. We must ...

Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan has disclosed that the laws required for the seizing of the properties of corrupt officials and prosecuting these officials should come into existence at the earliest.
 
"If a public official amasses wealth at the cost of public, then the state ...

Raj Singh Dungarpur, the former president of BCCI, passed away on Saturday morning after prolonged illness. He was 73.
 
'Rajbhai', as he was commonly known, had been a part of the national cricket selection panel twice. Dungarpur was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
 
 Raj ...

If everything goes according to the plans, then the people who suffer from AIDS will be allotted about 75% concession on their tickets while they are travelling to avail treatment.  Many states have also mentioned that these people not charged while they are travelling to avail medical help. ...

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has kicked off his three-day Tamil Nadu tour on Tuesday. This tour is an attempt for giving Congress a total revamping in the state.
 
His tour is packed with a series of meetings, mainly addressing the youth and hopping from one town to another. ...

Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has disclosed on Sunday in Kolkata that the railway recruitment examinations can now be attempted in all the major Indian languages, with the inclusion of Urdu.
 
Mamata Banerjee, who was addressing the media during an ‘Iftar’ party, which ...

A  Sanskrit-teaching academy based in Ahamdabad is using the dialogues from Hindi movies to promote India’s oldest language, Sanskrit.
 
This initiative has been taken by the Academy to break the popular view that the Sanskrit is a language which is hard to learn and of little ...

Indian Prime Minister has activated his Facebook account, but he is neither net savvy nor uses cell phones.
 
Sanjay Baru, who is Manmohan Singh’s former media advisor, had disclosed during a TV channel interaction that, despite the fact that PM is not net savvy, he owns a Facebook ...

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati, named a new university for the physically challenged after the mother of her party’s General Secretary Satish Chandra Misra.
 
The university, named after late Shakuntala Misra, a homeopath physician, is in the outskirts of the Lucknow city. ...

Renowned economist B. M. Bhatia, who is very famous for the works which have been done on Indian famines as well as the issues related to agricultural sector, passed away on Wednesday night in New Delhi. He had been ill for quite some time.
 
Bhatia, 94, is survived by three daughters and a ...

The body of the late Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who happened to be killed in a helicopter crash, will be brought to Hyderabad from Kurnool by 5 pm. This information was given by AP Finance Minister, K. Rosaiah.
 
Rosaiah, when addressing the media, has disclosed ...

Reports from Prime Minister’s Office have confirmed that Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy has passed away in the chopper crash. 
 
 
The helicopter carrying YSR Reddy, two of his staff and two pilots lost its way amidst pouring rain on Wednesday morning ...

Tarun Kanti Mishra, a senior Indian Administrative Service officer, has assumed the charges of the State Chief Secretary of Orissa on Monday. This information was given by official sources from Bhubaneswar.
 
Tarun Kanti Mishra who had been held the position of the Home Secretary of the ...

Sharad Yadav, the JD (U) leader, has been unanimously elected as the national president of the party again.
 
Yadav is being selected for the second time for a two-year term without any other person being nominated against him.
 
The decision came during the event which marked the ...

According to an NGO, the ATM will be made friendlier to the disabled people very soon.
 
The draft on the national Policy on Electronic Accessibility, which has been developed by an NGO, has been approved by the information technology ministry and is waiting for the approval from central ...