1993 Mumbai blasts case: SC stays death sentence of Mohammed Tahir Merchant Read
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the death sentence of convict Mohammed Tahir Merchant in connection with 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case which killed 257 people and injured over 700. The court had earlier convicted and sentenced all the...
Mumbai: Medical student falls from train while fighting off thief
File Pic Mumbai: A 19-year-old medical student fell from a moving local train while trying to fight off a thief on board near Juinagar railway station on Saturday night. The victim, identified as Rituja, was travelling in the ladies compartment of...
Rahul Gandhi files nomination for Congress chief
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi filed his nomination papers for the post of Congress president. He will take over from his mother, Sonia Gandhi, who has been holding this post for over two decades. With him at the Congress HQ are...
National Consumer Commission New Delhi issues notice to MHADA for delay in possession
New Delhi: The National Consumer Redressal Commission New Delhi comprising of Shri Anup Thakur, {presiding member} has issued notices to Chief Officer, MHADA, and its Contractor M/s IVRCL Infrastructure and Project Ltd. on a “consumer complaint” jointly filed by flat...
Infosys appoints Salil Parekh as CEO and MD
Mumbai: IT bellwether Infosys has appointed Salil S. Parekh as its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director with effect from January 2, 2018, a regulatory filing by the company said here on Saturday. "We are delighted to have Salil joining as...
Army has various options available: Rawat on across-LoC ops
Army Chief General Bipin Rawat today said the Indian Army had various retaliatory options at its disposal as far as carrying out operations on the lines of the 2016 surgical strikes was concerned. He was speaking at the launch of a...
Training aircraft crash lands in Maharashtra, 2 suffer minor injuries
A training aircraft with the Bombay Flying Club crash landed in a farm in Datarshi village of Sakri Taluk in Dhule district, Maharashtra. According to police, the pilot and a co passenger suffered minor injuries. The spot where the aircraft...
After UP local body polls, dictionaries should re-define sweep, surge
Veteran Congress leader P Chidambaram, a vocal critic of the BJP-led government at the Centre, took to Twitter today to make a stinging remark a day after the BJP won the UP local body polls. The former finance and home minister...
JEE Main 2018 Online Registration Begins, Apply Before 1st January 2018
New Delhi: JEE Main 2018 Online Registration has begun on the official website of JEE Main - jeemain.nic.in. JEE Main is scheduled to be conducted on 8th April 2018 in pen and paper mode while the computer based exam will...
BJP set to sweep UP civic polls; Cong fares poorly in Amethi
File Pic Lucknow: The ruling BJP today forged ahead of its rivals, leading on 14 of the 16 mayoral seats in Uttar Pradesh where the civic bodies polls were held in three phases. In the remaining two places, the BSP was...
Ochki intensifies into ‘severe cyclonic storm’, 30 missing
Cyclone Ockhi intensified into a severe cyclonic storm and moved to the Arabian Sea today even as the Navy rescued eight fishermen caught in choppy waters and intensified search for 30 others missing. Rains, which left eight persons dead including...
11 injured as terrorists storm govt building in Pakistan
Militants today stormed a government building in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar and opened fire, sparking a gun battle with security forces in which at least 11 people were injured. The militants attacked the student hostel of the Directorate of...
SC dismisses plea seeking SIT probe in alleged bribery case
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today dismissed another plea filed by a non-government organisation seeking an SIT probe into the alleged bribery case in the name of judges. A bench comprising justices R K Agrawal, Arun Mishra and A M...
Respect Tharoor’s right to silence, HC tells Republic TV
The Delhi High Court refuses to restrain journalist Arnab Goswami and his Republic TV from airing news about Sunanda Pushkar's death case. The HC, however, holds that Arnab and his channel should respect Shashi Tharoor's right to silence in connection...
Hotel security breach: Modi-Ivanka dinner’s CCTV feed goes live on TV
Hyderbad: After making elaborate security arrangements to ensure the smooth conduct of GES-2017, Telangana police ended up in an embarrassing situation when local TV channels aired the live CCTV footage visuals from Falaknuma Palace Hotel when Prime Minister Modi was...
Maharashtra loan waiver: Latur farmers get SMS from banks, postcards from Fadnavis, but money’s nowhere
Latur: An ongoing Firstpost investigation into the implementation of the Maharashtra government's farm loan waiver scheme — known as the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Shetkari Sanman Yojana — has established it has been botched because of the ineptitude of 66 banks....
Devendra Fadnavis praises North Indians, MNS condemns him
Mumbai: Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis lauded the North Indians and other states people staying Mumbai but the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) of Raj Thackeray quickly condemned him. Fadnavis said, the commercial capital of this country has given place to many...
GDP Growth Improves to 6.3% In July-September Quarter
New Delhi: In what could provide the BJP government more substance to back its claims that country’s economy is on the right track, India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the July-September quarter improved to 6.3 per cent from a year...
Debt on Gujarat Rose to 2.4 Lakh Cr in BJP’s Tenure, Why Should Gujaratis Pay For it, Rahul Asks Modi
New Delhi: In the run up to Gujarat Assembly elections, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will ask a question to Prime Minister Narendra Modi every day on Bharatiya Janata Party‘s 22-year tenure in the poll-bound state. Rahul asked the Prime...
Is Arvind Subramanian ‘Stupid’, Chidambaram Asks PM Modi
New Delhi: Former finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidamabaram on Thursday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi whether he is calling Chief Economic Advisor Dr Arvind Subramanian and other economists ‘stupid’ for arguing for a cap of the tax...
Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Somnath Mandir sparks row, marked Non-Hindu in register entry
Nagpur/Saurashtra: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Somnath Mandir in Gujarat on Wednesday sparked a major controversy. His entry in the Security Register of the Mandir has been marked as Non-Hindu. The entry was made by Congress Media Coordinator...
