CS assault case: AAP MLAs sent to 14-day judicial custody
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party MLAs Amanatullah Khan and Prakash Jarwal, arrested for allegedly assaulting Delhi chief secretary, were today sent to Tihar Jail for 14 days in judicial custody by a Delhi court, which reserved its order on...
HC rejects plea alleging glorification of Sati in ‘Padmaavat’
New Delhi: The Delhi high court today rejected a plea seeking penal action against the producers and director of Bollywood movie Padmaavat for alleged glorification of the practice of 'sati'. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C...
Multi-national Child Porn Racket Busted After Raids in Mumbai, Delhi: CBI
Representational Pic New Delhi: A multi-national child porn racket has been busted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after raids in Noida, Kannauj, Delhi, and Mumbai. The WhatsApp group had 199 members who circulated child porn on the social...
Mamata Banerjee to Shut Down 125 RSS-affiliated Schools For Not Following Syllabus
Kolkata: The West Bengal government has decided to shut down around 125 schools affiliated to the RSS. The state education department had begun the probe into the affiliation of these schools in March 2017. It was found that these 125 schools...
Parrikar presents Goa budget hours after discharge from hospital
Panji: Goa CM Manohar Parrikar puts to rest morbid rumours of his illness as he presents the budget in the state assembly. Parrikar, who was recently hospitalised in Mumbai, was discharged from Lilavati Hospital and reached Goa at 11:40 am by...
He should never have received invite: Trudeau on Khalistani terrorist
New Delhi: Canadian PM Justin Trudeau on inviting Khalistani terrorist Jaspal Atwal to a dinner with the Canadian Prime Minister, hosted by the Canadian High Commissioner in New Delhi. "Obviously, we take this extremely seriously. He should never have received an...
Board makes it clear, no re-examination of 12 standard English paper
Pune: Maharashtra State and Higher Secondary Education Board 's Chairman Shakuntala Kale has made it clear that the English paper of 12th Board exam held on Tuesday had gone viral on Wahtsapp one and a half hours after the exam started...
Parrikar discharged from Mumbai hospital
Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar was today discharged from the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai, where he was undergoing treatment for a pancreatic ailment. Parrikar has arrived in Goa after the discharge. Deputy Speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly Michael...
AIUDF grew faster than BJP, says Army Chief
A "planned" influx of people from Bangladesh into the Northeast is taking place as part of a proxy warfare by Pakistan with support from China with an aim to keep the area disturbed, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat today said. Referring...
Mumbai: RPF personnel save woman’s life who slipped while boarding train
Mumbai: Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel, along with some other people, saved a woman passenger’s life while she was boarding a train at Central Railway Station in Mumbai. The incident happened on Wednesday. In the video shared by news agency ANI,...
Bombay High Court seeks response from Centre, Maharashtra government on plea against Navi Mumbai airport
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today issued notice to the Centre and the Maharashtra government and sought their response to a PIL challenging the environment clearance granted for construction of the Navi Mumbai International Airport. The PIL, filed by city-based NGO...
Responsible leaders should think of the country as a whole and “not just Gujarat or Ahmedabad” : Sharad Pawar
Pune: Only the Congress has the ability to challenge the country's ruling BJP presently, and its 'acche din' will come, predicted Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar here on Wednesday. The veteran politician was replying to blunt questions thrown by...
Magnetic Maharashtra poll event, need white paper on
Mumbai: Describing the Magnetic Maharashtra business summit as an event with an eye on the 2019 polls, Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) president Ashok Chavan today demanded that the Devendra Fadnavis government submit a white paper on investments during its...
Maharashtra Civil Judges, Judicial Magistrate Results Declared at mpsc.gov.in
Maharashtra Civil Judges, Judicial Magistrate Results Declared at mpsc.gov.in vide advertisement No.57/2017 dated 21 February 2018. Maharashtra Public Service Commission has declared final results of Judicial Services on its official website today. MPSC has conducted exam for the posts of...
English paper of 12th Board exam goes viral after an hour in Barshi
Solapur/Aurangabad: within an hours after the 12th standard board exams started, in the Tambewadi's Ashram school in Barshi taluka the question paper went viral on social media. Till now it is not known from where the question paper leaked. The use...
Ishrat Jahan encounter case: Ex-Gujarat DGP PP Pandey discharged
New Delhi: CBI court allows discharge plea of retired Gujarat DGP P P Pandey in Ishrat Jahan alleged fake encounter case. Pandey was heading the state crime branch when Ishrat, a 19-year-old girl based in Mumbra near Mumbai, Javed Shaikh...
CBI begins questioning Rotomac owner
New Delhi: The CBI today began questioning Rotomac owner Vikram Kothari at its headquarters in New Delhi in connection with the alleged loan default of Rs 3,695 crore towards a consortium of seven nationalised banks, officials said. Earlier, Kothari was being...
AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan detained
New Delhi: AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan was today detained in connection with the alleged scuffle between Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash and party MLAs. Khan reached Jamia Nagar Police Station to surrender and added that he has not done anything wrong. Earlier...
State board brings strict norms to check paper leaks for class 12th
Mumbai: Taking cue from the past incidences of paper leaks, the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education has taken extra precaution to make the class 12th exams, which began across Maharashtra on Wednesday, completely 'leak-proof'. In order...
I was hit on the head: Full text of ‘assault’ on Delhi Chief Secy
New Delhi: As the alleged manhandling of the Delhi chief secretary Anshu Prakash by few AAP MLAs intensified on Tuesday, Prakash wrote to DCP North narrating the entire incident. In a letter, the chief secretary alleged that the AAP MLAs abused...
Rohith Vemula’s mother accepts compensation from Hyderabad University
Hyderabad: The mother of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula, who allegedly committed suicide, has accepted a compensation of Rs 8 lakh from the University of Hyderabad. Radhika Vemula, mother of Rohith Vemula said her lawyers had advised her to take it. Vemula,...
