Mayawati resigns as Rajya Sabha MP
New Delhi: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Tuesday resigned as Rajya Sabha MP. Mayawati earlier in the day threatened to resign from the pper House as she was not allowed to speak on Dalits and other weaker sections being...
IFS officer’s tour led to tiger deaths in Pench: Probe report
Representational Pic Bhopal: A three-member probe committee of state forest department has held the ‘unauthorised’ tour of a senior IFS officer to Pench National Park responsible for the death of a tigress and two cubs at the Park on March...
Let me speak or I will quit, says Mayawati walking out of Rajya Sabha
New Delhi: Pandemonium in the Upper House. Mayawati walks out of the House and threatens to resign from the Rajya Sabha amid ruckus in the House. She said she will resign if she is not allowed to speak and says...
Smriti Irani given charge of Naidu’s I&B ministry
New Delhi: The Prime Minister's Office tweets: The additional charge of the Ministry of I&B has been given to @smritiirani.
The additional charge of the Ministry of I&B has been given to @smritiirani.
— PMO India (@PMOIndia)...
Wearing saffron, Naidu arrives in Parliament to file nomination for VP poll
New Delhi: NDA's Vice Presidential candidate Venkaiah Naidu arrives in Parliament to file his nomination. With a rich, saffron angavastram draped around his shoulders, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu, is one of most recognisable faces in the Bharatiya Janata Party....
Venkaiah Naidu can be NDA VP of India
New Delhi: Information and Broadcasting Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu has been finalized as the ruling NDA candidate for Vice Presidential poll and the announcement will be made on Monday evening, party sources said. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary Board will...
Asaduddin Owaisi will support Meira, but prefers a non-Congress candidate
New Delhi: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said they voted for Opposition candidate Meira Kumar for the post of the President. "We have decided to support Meira Kumar. But a non-congress candidate would have been better...
NCP denies supporting Kovind, says party has voted for Meira
New Delhi: Amid reports of the Nationalist Congress Party voting for National Democratic Alliance's presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind, party leader Praful Patel on Monday clarified that all their MPs and MLAs have voted for Opposition candidate Meira Kumar. Patel...
Sasikala kitchen ghotala: Whistleblower top cop transferred
Bengaluru: The Karnataka Deputy Inspector General of Police, D Roopa, who spoke out against the alleged VIP treatment being given to AIADMK chief Sasikala Natarajan in jail, has been shunted out. Roopa has now been posted as commissioner for road safety...
Jawan, girl, killed in Pak shelling along LoC
Srinagar: An Army jawan and a nine-year-old girl were killed as Pakistani troops shell areas along the LoC in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. Two more civilians have been injured. The army said soldier Muddasar Ahmed (pictured) was hit when...
Ceasefire violation by Pak in Rajouri, Poonch, Indian Army retaliating
Representational Pic Srinagar: The Pakistan Army on Monday violated ceasefire along the Line of Control in Poonch's Balakote and Rajouri's Manjakote and Bhimber Gali sector. The Indian Army is strongly retaliating to it. On July 12, two soldiers were killed after Pakistan...
Prez polls: Voting begins across India
New Delhi: So, PM Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah were the first to cast their vote in Parliament in the Presidential Polls being held today. Voting, which began at 10 am across the country, is underway simultaneously in...
Presidential elections fight between ideologies, not persons: NCP
New Delhi: The Nationalist Congress Party on Monday said that the Presidential election is a fight between two different ideologies, and not between two persons. Talking to a news agency, NCP leader Tariq Anwar said, "I believe that this fight is...
On 31st day of shutdown, Darjeeling tense but violence-free
Darjeeling: Pro-Gorkhaland activists took out rallies in Darjeeling as security forces maintained tight vigil across the hills today -- the 31st day of the indefinite shutdown for a separate state. No incident of violence or arson was reported by the police...
PMO terms RTI query on Narendra Modi, Manmohan Singh’s foreign trips as vague
Lucknow: Terming the query as “vague”, the Prime Minister’s Office has denied information on various expenses incurred in foreign trips by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his predecessor Manmohan Singh, an Right To Information activist said. Nutan Thakur, the RTI...
Explosive in UP House: ATS team finds pan masala packets all over
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad team conducts thorough search at the assembly, where explosive material was found on Friday. "ATS conducted an extensive security check-up of the assembly on July 14, pan masala packets etc were found at many places. A...
16th batch of 3,398 pilgrims leave for Amarnath from Jammu
Srinagar: Amid tight security, the sixteenth batch of 3,398 pilgrims today left Jammu for the 3,888-metre Amarnath cave shrine of Lord Shiva in the south Kashmir Himalayas. Escorted by the Central Reserve Police Force and police, the batch consisting of 2,535...
Bihar rift widens, Tejashwi skips event attended by Nitish
Patna: The rift between Bihar's ruling alliance was widened on Saturday with Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav skipping an event where he was to share dais with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Tejashwi's name plate was earlier covered, and then removed, at...
Supreme Court demands Vijay Mallya’s presence to proceed in contempt case
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today considered the Centre's submission that proceedings to extradite embattled businessman Vijay Mallya are going on in London and said the contempt case against him would move further only when he is produced before it. A...
Women can’t live in Bengal for 15 days without being raped, says Rupa Ganguly
Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rupa Ganguly, while commenting on the ongoing violence in West Bengal, on Friday dared those flattering Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Congress to send their wives and daughters to Bengal to live for 15...
Rahul returned empty-handed (brainless) from grandparents’ house, mocks BJP
New Delhi: After repetitively being called 'immature' by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the saffron party once again targetted Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday, saying that the latter returned from his maternal grandparents' house without learning anything. Haryana Sports Minister Anil...
