Rajasthan: Activist Zafar Hussein lynched to death for resisting photography of women defecating in open
Jaipur: A 44 year old man social worker was reportedly beaten to death by muncipality employees in Pratapgarh district of Rajasthan as he tried to stop them from taking photographs of Muslim women who had come out of their homes...
Mandatory to link Aadhar to bank accounts by December 31: Govt
New Delhi/Nagpur: Existing bank account holders have been asked to furnish the Aadhaar number issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) by December 31, 2017, failing which the account will cease to be operational, according to a revenue...
Jammu & Kashmir: Top LeT terrorist Junaid Mattoo killed in encounter
Anantnag: Top Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Junaid Mattoo was today killed in an encounter with security forces in Arwani village of Bijbihara in Anantnag District of south Kashmir, media reports. Mattoo was trapped for more than eight hours with two other local Lashkar...
Talk to AK programme probe: CBI team at Dy CM’s residence
File Pic New Delhi: The CBI today visited premises of Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia to seek clarifications in connection with a preliminary enquiry against him related to alleged irregularities in the AAP's 'Talk to AK' campaign. The agency had registered...
Prices of petrol, diesel to be revised daily from today
New Delhi: From today onwards, the retail prices of petrol and diesel will be revised daily. Earlier this month, the oil marketing companies decided to make the daily revision. It is intended to make the retail prices more reflective of the...
Twin sisters, 5, die after being locked in hot car in Gurgaon
Gurgaon: Locked in a hot car for over two hours, five-year-old twin sisters died in Gurgaon near Delhi yesterday afternoon. The girls were spending their summer holiday with their grandparents, who live in the Pataudi area, in a village called...
In Trump’s America, prof holds after-sunset classes for fasting Muslims
Washington: In a beautiful gesture symbolic of accommodating religious sentiments, a professor at the University of Washington offered to conduct examinations after sunset for his Muslim students, who are fasting during the holy month of Ramzan. This decision was taken Bryan...
SC to hear plea against ban on cattle sale for slaughter today
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today will hear a petition challenging the Centre's notification banning the sale and purchase of cattle from animal markets for slaughter, a move that received flak since its announcement. The petition was filed by a Hyderabad-based...
RSS holds iftar party in Ayodhya
Ayodhya: Rashtriya Swayam Sewak's Muslim wing Muslim Rashtriya Manch has organised an Iftar party in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya on Wednesday. Senior RSS leader Indresh Kumar was also present at yesterday's party. The MRM was set up in 2002 by the RSS in...
6 dead in London highrise fire
London: Six people confirmed killed in the huge fire at Grenfell Tower in London, says Commander Stuart Cundy of the Metropolitan Police. The police said it expected numbers to rise, and that it was too early to give details. The BBC...
US Congressman Steve Scalise injured in shootout during baseball practice
Virginia: In a shocking incident, a gunman opened fire on Republican members of Congress during a baseball practice near Washington early on Wednesday, wounding several people, including House of Representatives Majority Whip Steve Scalise. The gunman was later taken into custody,...
Rajnath Singh, Venkaiah Naidu to meet Sonia Gandhi over consensus Prez candidate
New Delhi: A three-member Bharatiya Janata Party panel set up to consult political parties on selecting a consensus candidate for the upcoming presidential poll will meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday. After meeting Gandhi, the panel of three ministers will...
Mandsaur calm and peaceful, says top cop
Mandsaur: Madhya Pradeshs Inspector General of Police Makarand Deuskar said today that the situation in Mandsaur is calm and Section 144 has been lifted from the area ahead of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's visit. The Madhya Pradesh CM met the...
Yogi Adityanath may not host iftar party
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath might not host an Iftar party at his official residence, 5 Kalidas Marg. Chief Minister Adityanath will be the second BJP Chief Minister after Ram Prakash Gupta to skip hosting an Iftar party. Earlier, top...
President Pranab Mukherjee to confer IIT-Kanpur’s honorary doctorate on PT Usha on June 16
New Delhi: Friday, June 16, is a special day in the life of Payyoli Express, P T Usha. It is when President Pranab Mukherjee will confer upon her the Doctor of Science (honoris causa) degree on her. The honoris causa is the...
FIR against Congress MLA Shakuntala Khatik for inciting violence in Mandsaur
Mandsaur : An FIR has been registered against Congress MLA Shakuntala Khatik and Venus Goyal in the Karera Police station in Mandsaur on charges of inciting a mob and other sections to resort to violence. A day before, the Congress' Shivpuri...
MP CM to meet families of farmers killed in Mandsaur protests tomorrow
Mandsaur: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is likely to visit Mandsaur tomorrow and meet the families of the five farmers killed in police firing. The Chief Minister, who had gone on an indefinite fast to calm frayed tempers of...
Pak baby Sushma promised help arrives in Delhi for treatment
New Delhi: Four-month-old infant, Rohaan, who was slated to come to India for medical treatment banking on the assurance by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, arrived in Noida on Monday evening, and will undergo treatment at Jaypee Hospital in the...
Uma Bharti ends 2500-km road trip along the Ganga
File Pic Lucknow: Union Minister for Water Resources, Uma Bharti has been on a road trip since May 26 for six days. After her appearance in the Lucknow lower court in the Ram Janmabhoomi case, Uma Bharti began the Ganga...
President Pranab Mukherjee gets set to move house
New Delhi: New Delhi is getting sprucing up to receive the next President. There are two places in Delhi which is seeing a flurry of activity. First stop, Rashtrapati Bhavan. The President's residence is getting ready to receive the next head...
Sonia must apologise for ‘sadak ka gunda’ statement, says enraged BJP
New Delhi: BJP's Nirmala Sitharaman weighs in on the Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit's remarks against Army chief General Bipin Rawat by calling him a "sadak ka gunda". Dikshit made the remark while responding to a question about the aggressive statements made...
