Drama at airport as BJP MP insists on taking knife on flight
New Delhi: BJP MP from Barabanki Priyanka Singh Rawat on Friday insisted on taking an unfolded knife with her on a flight, leading to a long argument between her and officials at Indira Gandhi International Airports Terminal 3 in the...
Lata Mangeshkar is known as ‘Maithili Kokila’, says Bihar’s Class XII topper in Arts stream
Patna: A year after Ruby Rai made the headlines for all the wrong reasons, this year too, Bihar Class XII topper in Arts stream Ganesh Kumar, is in the news for failing to answer some basic questions on the subject...
Wipro gets another bio attack threat mail, Rs 500 cr ransom in bitcoin demanded
Representational Pic Bengaluru: IT major Wipro on Friday said it has reinforced security measures at all its office locations after receiving a second threat email, but there was no impact on the company's operations. However, Wipro did not specify the nature...
I eat beef, nothing wrong with it, says BJP’s Arunachal CM Pema Khandu
Representational Pic Guwahati: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister and BJP leader Pema Khandu on Friday opposed the Union government notification which put a ban on the sale of cattle for slaughter. Khandu told media that the Centre would have to relook the...
Andhra Infosys techie, 3-yr old son drown in swimming pool in US
Washington: A software engineer from Andhra Pradesh, who was working for Infosys, and his three-year-old son have drowned in a swimming pool in the US, according to news reports. Nagaraju Surepalli, 31, was from Guntur. He worked and lived in...
Ramachandra Guha tears into Dhoni in resignation letter, backs coach Kumble
New Delhi: Historian Ramachandra Guha might have cited personal reasons for quitting from his position in the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators of the BCCI, but in a strongly worded letter to chairman Vinod Rai, he has spared none, even...
CP Joshi of Congress wins Rajasthan Cricket Association President election 2017, defeats Lalit Modi’s son Ruchir
Jaipur: Congress leader CP Joshi won the elections for the President of Rajasthan Cricket Association on Friday, defeating outgoing RCA President Lalit Modi’s son Ruchir Modi by five votes. Out of 33 votes polled, while Joshi got 19 votes, Modi...
ED files money laundering case to probe Bihar toppers scam
Patna: The Enforcement Directorate has registered a money laundering case to probe alleged irregularities in the 2016 Bihar toppers scam case related to the state school examination board. Officials said the agency has booked a criminal case against a total...
GDP slump: Chidambaram slams Centre for ‘ridiculing’ Manmohan’s suggestions
New Delhi: Following the release of the GDP and Gross Value Added figures for 2016-17 showing the sliding of the economy by 1.3 percent, former finance minister P. Chidambaram on Friday trained his guns on the Centre for ridiculing the...
US withdraws from Paris climate deal,Top CEOs tell Trump: You’re wrong
ris: United States President Donald Trump has announced withdrawal from the Paris climate deal. He, however, said that the US will begin fresh negotiations to enter either the Paris deal or a totally new climate deal. Announcing the withdrawal, he said the...
Rajasthan judge’s ‘peacock don’t have sex’ remark draws flak
New Delhi: "Peacocks don't have sex". That bizarre remark came from a Rajasthan High Court judge and it kept Twitter hooked to their keyboards for hours. That comment was made by Judge Mahesh Chandra Sharma who, on Wednesday, recommended that the...
Liftman, 2 others trick KGMU patient’s wife, allegedly gang-rape her
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Police on Thursday arrested one person out of the three for allegedly gang-raping a lady at the King George's Medical University (KGMU) in Lucknow. The other two are still absconding. The accused have been identified as liftman Vinay,...
AAP will hold hackathon on same day as Election Commission
New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party will hold an EVM or Electronic Voting Machine hackathon on the same day as the Election Commission's challenge for parties to prove allegations of tampering. AAP says its "counter-hackathon" aims at proving that the...
Kerala Police arrest 8 Youth Congress workers for killing ox in Kannur
Representational Pic Kannur: Kerala police arrested eight workers of Youth Congress who slaughtered an ox in full public view, cooked its meat and then distributed it to protest against the Centre’s latest rules on the sale of cattle. The eight...
MakemyTrip co-founder tweets on beef, tour operator comes under attack
New Delhi: Online tour operator MakeMyTrip was trolled on Twitter after one of the company's co-founders made some hard hitting comments on the Central government's new rules on cattle sale. Keyur Joshi, who is one of the co-founders of MakeMyTrip, had...
Beef fest: IIT-Madras students seek expulsion of Sooraj attackers
Chennai: A day after an IIT-Madras scholar was beaten up allegedly by right-wing students for participating in a beef fest on Sunday, students of the premiere institute took out a rally in support of R Sooraj and sought expulsion of...
Centre says Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose died in air crash; grandnephew seeks SIT probe
Representational pic New Delhi: Rejecting the Centre's statement on the death of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Bharatiya Janata Party leader and his grandnephew Chandra Bose on Wednesday demanded setting up a special investigation team to unravel the mystery of Netaji's...
Petrol prices hiked by Rs 1.23/litre, diesel by Rs 0.89/litre
New Delhi: India’s oil marketing companies, on Monday, hiked petrol price by Rs 1.23/litre and diesel by Rs 0.89/litre tracking global crude oil prices in the trailing fortnight and the corresponding fall in the prices of the Indian crude basket,...
UPSC 2016 results declared: Nandini KR tops, 1099 candidates qualify
New Delhi: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has declared the Civil Services Examination 2016 results on Wednesday. Based on the results of the written part of Civil Services Examination, 2016 held by the UPSC in December, 2016 and the...
Kerala High Court refuses to interfere in cattle slaughter ban
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala High Court has said there is no need for it to interfere with the Centre's ban on cattle sale for slaughter. A PIL seeking the quashing of a notification on a ban on cattle sale for slaughter...
Declare cow as national animal, make slaughter punishable by life term: Rajasthan High Court
Representational Pic Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court on Wednesday recommended the Narendra Modi government to declare cow as national animal. The court also recommended life term for cow slaughter instead of three years under the Bovine Act while hearing the...
