NSG meet underway, India in touch with member nations: MEA

Afghanistan and Ireland have been approved as Full Members by the International Cricket Council, meaning they have become cricket's 11th and 12th Test-playing nations. This was signed off on by the ICC Board in London on Thursday, during the ICC's AGM. Ireland and Afghanistan are included into the elite group that is permitted to play in the traditional five-day Test matches. Afghanistan Cricket Board Chief Executive Shafiq Stanikzai said, "For a nation like Afghanistan, it is a huge and ...

Nitish Kumar's support for NDA's presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind could be a clever ploy of sitting on the fence, or, it may just be a realisation that New Delhi is far away The post Presidential Election 2017: Nitish Kumar treads on edge with support ...

In the early 1980s, the concept of a formal national cricketing coach was alien to most countries, but still teams like Australia and England were far more professional in their approach than India. Still in 1983, out of the blue, India won its still arguably ...

National football team's chief coach Stephen Constantine is confident that he will be able to unearth new talent from the current pool of India U-22 players aiming to seal a spot for the 2018 AFC U-23 Championship. "Obviously, our primary target is to qualify ...

The National Intelligence Grid or NATGRID, a network aimed at sharing information about terrorists among security agencies, will now be getting access to the income tax department's PAN records and individual taxpayers' data. The ambitious project, conceived by the then home minister P Chidambaram during UPA II’s rule, will soon be getting new powers to access tax payers' information after it signs a memorandum of understanding with the income tax department. According to an order issued ...

New Delhi is talking about the new national headquarters of the BJP that promises to be uber luxurious.The plot of land where the HQ is being constructed was given to the BJP in 2008 during the UPA regime. While other parties too were given plots, it's only the BJP that has begun construction of a new office building. The RJD has a three-storeyed building as its national HQ in Delhi. Heres what we can tell you about the under-construction national headquarters of the Bharatiya Janata Party: - ...

From Peru's historic citadel of Machu Picchu to the United Nations’ sprawling lawns in New York, yoga mats were spread at iconic landmarks across the world as yoga practitioners today performed asanas to mark the third International Yoga Day. Top UN diplomats, officials, envoys, yoga practitioners and people from all walks of life attended a grand event organised by India’s Permanent Mission to the UN to mark the day at the world body's headquarters in New York. IMAGE: People ...

New Delhi [India], June 22 (ANI-NewsVoir): The third meeting of the National Medical and Wellness Tourism Board was held on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Tourism and Culture.

Officers of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Ahmedabad, nabbed a Kenyan national with 700 gram amphetamine and 587 gram cocaine — worth Rs6 crore — from the Delhi Sarai Rohila-Bandra Garib Rath at Kalupur railway station on Tuesday. Primary ...