Babylonia was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in central-southern Mesopotamia and parts of Syria. A small Amorite-ruled state emerged in 1894 BC, which contained the minor administrative town of Babylon. Read More
Nine former US ambassadors have warned that Afghanistan could collapse in a "total civil war" if US President Donald Trump withdraws all American forces before the Afghanistan administration and the Taliban conclude a peace settlement. ...
India is set to witness a sharp slowdown in population growth in the next two decades, states the Economic Survey 2018-19 tabled by Finance Minister and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament on Thursday. ...
The Central government has not accorded the status of special category state to Odisha as the Fourteenth Finance Commission does not make any distinction between special and general category states, said Minister of State (MoS) in the Ministry of Hom ...
The decisions were taken at a meeting of Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA). Besides, India celebrated 2018 as the National Year of Millets. Food and Agriculture Orgsation (FAO) Council has approved India's proposal to observe an Internatio ...
The Central government is considering bringing a Data Protection Bill to strengthen the protection of personal data, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday. ...
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Tuesday said that West Bengal was being unnecessarily targeted in the Parliament despite many instances of violence taking place in other states. ...
The Minister of State in Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Ashwini Kumar Choubey said that there is no definition of 'generic drugs' in the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and Drugs & Cosmetics Rules, 1945, on Tuesday in Lok Sabha. ...
After acute water crisis gripped Tamil Nadu, State's Municipal Corporation Minister SP Velum on Saturday appealed people to save water and install rainwater harvesting systems in their houses, during a joint press conference of Chennai Corporation an ...
