Raghuram Rajan objects to ‘anti-national’ tag in universities
File Pic New Delhi: Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan said universities need to be "safe spaces" where debates take place and no one is shouted down after being branded an "anti-national". Every stream of thought needs to be encouraged in...
Video: Rahul Gandhi gets off the stage, poses for a selfie on student’s demand
New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi got off the stage and posed for a selfie with a student at Maharani’s Arts College for Women in Mysuru in Karnataka on Saturday. Rahul was interacting with students when the girl student asked...
Lalu gets 7 years in prison in fourth fodder scam case
Jailed former Bihar chief minister Lalu Yadav has been sentenced to seven years in prison in the fourth fodder scam case. On Monday, the former Bihar CM was found guilty along with 18 others. This is the fourth conviction for...
BJP at 69, Congress at 50 in Rajya Sabha after polls
The Bharatiya Janata Party has made a significant gain of 11 additional seats while the Congress made an overall loss of four in the biennial elections to 58 Rajya Sabha seats, consolidating the saffron party's position in the House and...
Jet Airways Asks 2 Drunk Pilots to Resign Immediately, Suspends Their Licenses
New Delhi: Private carrier Jet Airways has asked its two pilots to quit after they were found drunk before operating the flight. The two pilots who have been asked to resign are a captain and a co-pilot of a...
Maha govt to constitute SIT into fake UK passport, visa scam
Mumbai: Maharashtra government will set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the fake passport and visa scam exposed by authorities in the United Kingdom, Minister of State for Home (Urban) Ranjit Patil said in the Legislative Council today. The...
Congress wins 3 Rajya Sabha seats in Karnataka; TRS bags all 3 in Telangana
New Delhi: The ruling Congress in Karnataka has bagged three Rajya Sabha seats and the Bharatiya Janata Party one in the biennial election. Congress' Dr L Hanumanthaiah, Dr Syed Naseer Hussain and G C Chandrasekhar, as also BJP's Rajeev Chandrashekar, were...
Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat attends Pak National Day
New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Agriculture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat attends the Pakistan National Day reception as a government representative at Pakistan high commission in New...
Rajya Sabha Elections Results 2018 Live Updates: BJP Wins 8 Seats in Uttar Pradesh, Congress Bags 3 in Karnataka
Rajya Sabha Elections Results 2018 Live Updates: 9:47 PM IST Rajya Sabha Elections Results Live Updates: The BJP has won 8 seats in Uttar Pradesh.
9:46 PM IST Rajya Sabha Elections Results Live Updates: SP candidate Jaya Bachchan has been elected to the...
‘ISIS’ gunman kills butcher, takes eight hostages and shoots cop in French
Paris: There are two victims in a hostage-taking at a supermarket in Trebes, in southern France, the mayor of the town said on Friday (March 23) as La Depeche du midi newspaper reported one person was dead. The condition of the...
4 JJ Hospital doctors booked for securing MBBS admissions with forged documents
Mumbai: The JJ Marg police in Mumbai have booked four doctors of renowned JJ Hospital (Grant Medical College) on the charges of submitting forged documents to secure admissions to the MBBS course. The accused doctors have been identified as Sayyed...
After US, Australia goes tough on Indian job seekers, scraps 457 visa programme
Representational pic Melbourne: In yet another big blow to the Indian job seekers looking for positions in Australia, the country has abolished its popular employer-sponsored 457 visa programme, widely used by Indians. Australia has also replaced this programme with much...
Karti Chidambaram gets bail in INX Media case
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court granted bail to Karti Chidambaram, son of senior Congress leader P Chidamabaram, in the INX Media corruption case. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Karti Chidambaram on February 28 for allegedly helping INX Media...
Office of profit row: Delhi HC sets aside EC recommendations to disqualify 20 AAP MLAs
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today set aside the Election Commission of India order disqualifying 20 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs for holding office-of-profit when they were appointed parliamentary secretaries. A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and Chander Shekhar had...
Kamala Mills owner Ravi Bhandari moves Supreme Court against arrest
Mumbai: The owner of Mumbai's Kamala Mills today moved the Supreme Court challenging his arrest in connection with a fire that claimed 14 lives in December last year. A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan asked Ravi Bhandari...
Shocking: Prime accused get bail in Kamala Mills Fire case, Police didn’t Know
Mumbai: Hookah supplier gets interim bail from the apex court; public prosecutor says he didn’t inform NM Joshi Marg police, who failed to oppose his plea. In what appears to be an unprecedented occurrence, one of the prime accused in the...
Voting for Rajya Sabha polls begins
Voting has begun for the Rajya Sabha elections in seven states to fill 26 of 59 seats falling vacant. Of these, 33 candidates have been elected unopposed. The BJP is expected to gain about a dozen seats in the...
Journalists should defend constitutional values: Manmohan Singh
At a time when our democracy is "experiencing some shocks", journalists should stand up for defending and promoting the values enshrined in the Constitution, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday. He was speaking at an award ceremony in New...
Anna Hazare to start indefinite hunger strike today
Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare will here on Friday begin his indefinite fast to bring about a competent Lokpal and ensure better production cost for farm produce. The Gandhian has been pressing for setting up of the Lokpal at the Centre and...
Allocation of land at Nagpur’s MIHAN to the Ramdev-promoted Patanjali group raised in Mah assembly
Mumbai: There was an uproar in the Maharashtra Legislative Council today after a senior BJP minister described Yoga guru Baba Ramdev as a "Rashtra Purush", while a Congress member called him "trader baba". Opposition members took objection to the epithet "Rashtra...
BJP IT cell founder Prodyut Bora quits party; attacks PM Modi, Amit Shah’s style
New Delhi: Disillusioned by the "subversion of democratic tradition in the government and party", young BJP leader from Assam Prodyut Bora, who founded the highly successful IT cell of the party, resigned from National Executive Committee and primary membership of...
