Bus conductor arrested for 7-year-old’s murder in Gurgaon school
Gurgaon: A bus conductor was arrested on Friday in connection with the murder of a second grader at a prominent private school in Gurgaon. The seven-year-old boy was found outside a school toilet, crawling and bleeding profusely before he died. Sources...
Maharashtra: 55 newborns died in Nashik Hospital in August due to lack of ventilators
Representational pic Nashik: s many as 55 infants died in the special newborn care unit of the Nashik Civil Hospital in August, but authorities denied the deaths were due to medical negligence. Since April, 187 infants have died in the unit...
Govt announces Rs 10 lakh reward to anyone giving clues in Gauri Lankesh’s murder
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government today announced Rs 10 lakh reward to anyone who provides clues about the killing of senior journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh. The announcement was made by Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy, a day after the city police asked...
Unacceptable Caste bias in this day and age surprisingly shown by a ‘scientist’
Representational Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: She is Deputy Director General of the Indian Meteriological department. Must be highly educated, having a Doctorate at least. She makes forecasts about monsoons and rains, which are hopefully based on scientific findings and satellite pics. Then...
Kid was still alive when he lay in a pool of blood: School
Gurugram: After a seven-year old student was found dead inside the school premises in Gurugram, the authorities of the Ryan International School have said that there wasn't any delay in taking the child to hospital. Speaking to the media, school...
BJP and Modi busy dividing society, says Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today alleged that the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were busy dividing society in their quest to retain power. Only the Congress ideology could take on the BJP and the RSS, he...
No-fly rules finalised, has minimum 2-year ban
New Delhi: Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha today announced the finalisation of the country's first no-fly list. The minister said the motive behind the No-Fly List was the safety and security of passengers, which was a priority...
Supreme Court bans NEET agitations in Tamil Nadu
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has banned agitations on NEET in Tamil Nadu. Political parties and pro-Tamil outfits have been staging state-wide protests over the suicide of a 17-year-old girl who had moved the Supreme Court against the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance...
Delhi HC refuses to restrain Republic TV from airing news on Sunanda Pushkar
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court refuses to pass an interim order on Shashi Tharoor's plea to restrain Arnab Goswami, channel from airing news on Sunanda Pushkar's death. In May, the Congress MP had filed a civil defamation suit against...
Cong’s Digvijaya Singh posts abusive meme against PM Modi
Congress' Digvijaya Singh posted an abusive meme on Friday taking a shot at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his followers who were termed as 'Bhakts', a derogatory term used on the social media against those who were supporters of PM...
Gauri Lankesh’s sister thinks there’s only one suspect “Right-wing activists”
Bengaluru: Gauri Lankesh's sister Kavitha Lankesh has said she thinks only one group harboured a possible motive to kill the journalist: "Right-wing activists". "Only one, I think. The Right-wing activists. Most of it she used to write about that," Kavitha said...
Chinese jailed for diamond heist at Mumbai exhibition dies
Thane: A 48-year-old Chinese national arrested for alleged theft of diamonds died in the Thane central jail, a prison official has said. The Vanrai police in adjoining Mumbai had arrested Jiang Changquing and another Chinese national Deng Xiaobo (45) on August...
Seven year old student of upscale Gurugram school found with his throat slit in restroom
Gurugram: In a incident that is sending shock waives in the country's capital, a student's mutilated body was found in the washroom of a private school in Gurugram, Haryana, on Friday. The seven-year-old was found lying in a pool of...
Plaint against BJP MLA who said Gauri Lankesh killed for writing against RSS
Sringeri:A group of Congress workers in Sringeri have filed a police complaint against Bharatiya Janata Party MLA D N Jeevaraj, who said yesterday that journalist Gauri Lankesh was killed for her statements against the right wing. "She may have written some...
Eat beef in your country before coming to India, jokes tourism minister
New Delhi: The newly-appointed Union Tourism Minister Alphons Kannanthanam has apparently asked the tourists coming from abroad to 'eat beef in your own country and then come to India'. The statement came in the aftermath of him being questioned about cow...
Army, police enter Dera HQ in Sirsa to conduct search ops
Sirsa: Security personnel and concerned officials have entered premises of Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters in Sirsa to conduct searches as ordered by Punjab and Haryana high court. 41 Paramilitary companies, four Army columns, Police of four districts, one SWAT team and...
BJP on #BlockNarendraModi: PM follows Rahul, Kejri too
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party has dismissed as 'farcical and fake' the row over Prime Minister Narendra Modi following some Twitter users accused of making objectionable comments over journalist Gauri Lankesh's murder, and and said it shows selective approach...
India can’t afford to become intolerant society: Raghuram Rajan
New Delhi: Amid nationwide outrage over the murder of an outspoken journalist, former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan today said India cannot afford to become an intolerant society as tolerance is "extremely important" for its economic growth. Rajan, who...
Rashtriya Sahara journo Pankaj Mishra shot in Bihar
Arwal: The nation and the journalist community were not even out of shock of Lankesh’s assassination when Pankaj Mishra, another journalist, with the Hindi newspaper Rashtriya Sahara, was shot at in Bihar's Arwal district. This comes just two days after the...
To be continued: Another train derails, this time near Khandala
Mumbai: In the third train derailment of the day, two coaches of a goods train have reported to be derailed in Maharashtra on Thursday. Two coaches of the goods train came off tracks near Khandala. The incident followed derailment of the Rajdhani...
Maharashtra minister’s daughter gives up higher studies’ scholarship for minorities after row
Mumbai: After media reported about the controversy over the scholarship awarded to Maharashtra's Social Justice Minister's daughter, the beneficiary Shruti Rajkumar Badole has decided to give up the scholarship. Maharashtra government on Wednesday had released a list of scholarships for students...
