NEW DELHI-The electoral college numbers seem to be stacked in favour of NDA’s presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind and he may well end up getting more votes than incumbent President Pranab Mukherjee and his predecessor Pratibha Patil. With Shiv Sena joining other NDA allies in backing Kovind and Odisha’s ruling Biju Janata Dal, the YSR Congress and Telangana’s ruling TRS too extending support, the 71-year-old...

NEW DELHI - The International Court of Justice has asked India to make its submission by September 13 in the case relating to Kulbushan Jadhav who faces execution in Pakistan as an alleged spy. Similarly, Islamabad has to make a counter-submission by December 13 before the UN court starts hearing the matter. Disclosing this, External Affairs Ministry spokesman Gopal Baglay dismissed Pakistan media reports that the world court...

UNITED NATIONS - The General Assembly (UNGA) re-elected India on Thursday to another three-year term on the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) with the backing of the Asian and Pacific group of nations. India received 183 of the 188 votes to serve again on the 36-member UN body that guides sustainable development policies and coordinates the activities of several UN units and organisations working development and social...

NEW DELHI - NDTV founder Prannoy Roy on Friday said the CBI case against him was "ridiculous and a concocted set of facts" and asserted that he and his wife Radhika Roy "never touched black money and never bribed even a single person" in their lives. He was speaking at a protest meet organised at the Press Club of India which was attended by a number of senior journalists including Kuldip Nayar, S. Nihal Singh, Arun Shourie, 

CHENNAI - India's heaviest rocket -- Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III) -- is all set for its maiden flight into space along with a communications satellite on Monday evening as its countdown of 25 hours and 30 minutes began at 3.58 p.m. on Sunday, an official of the Indian space agency said. The rocket, weighing 640 tonnes and standing 43.43 metres tall, will blast off from the second launch pad at India's rocket port...

KATHMANDU - A team of expert climbers successfully retrieved the body of an Indian climber who died of high altitude sickness in the Mt. Everest, the world's highest peak, and brought it back to Kathmandu on Monday. According to The Kathmandu Post, the body of Ravi Kumar, 27, was lying at a 200-metre-deep crevasse near the summit of the world's tallest mountain since May 22 and went missing from the so-called balcony...

LONDON -  British Airways (BA) warned of further delays and cancellations as it resumed flights on Sunday following a major IT failure that saw most services cancelled from London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports on Saturday. The unions blamed the airline's decision last year of outsourcing IT jobs to India as causing the disruptions. Between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m., 91 British Airways flights were scheduled to depart from both the...

DHOLA - Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the strategically crucial and India's longest 9.15-km river bridge connecting Assam and Arunachal Pradesh near the China border, and made a veiled attack on the previous Congress-led government for "delaying" its construction. Marking three years of the BJP-led central government, Modi named the bridge -- built over Brahmaputra tributary Lohit and linking Dhola in Assam to...