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...
Pro-Left student bodies protest attack on IIT Madras student
Chennai: Pro-Left student bodies today staged a protest outside the IIT Madras here condemning the attack on a PhD scholar for taking part in a beef fest in the campus opposing the Centre's ban on sale of cattle for slaughter. Expressing...
Noida: B.Tech engineer Anjali Rathour shot dead at Shatabdi Rail Vihar Apartment in Sector 62
Noida: In yet another shocking incident from Uttar Pradesh, a 23-year-old software engineer was shot dead in Noida on Wednesday morning. The techie, Anjali Rathour, was shot dead at the Shatabdi Rail Vihar society in Noida, Sector 62. She was...
Kejriwal baiter Kapil Mishra dragged out of Assembly
New Delhi: Former minister Kapil Mishra was heckled and dragged out of the Delhi Assembly today. The Assembly met at a special session today to discuss and pass the GST bill. But, he said, the moment he stood up to speak, the...
Trolled for ‘showing leg’ at meet with PM, Priyanka responds…
Newly-minted Baywatch star Priyanka Chopra who happened to be in Berlin at the same time as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, tweeted a picture of the meeting yesterday, saying, "Thank you for taking the time to meet me this morning @narendramodi...
Yogi offers prayers at Ram temple in Ayodhya
UP CM Yogi Adityanath offers prayers at the banks of the river Saryu in Ayodhya. UP CM Yogi Adityanath offers prayers at makeshift Ram temple in Ayodhya. Adityanath's visit comes a day after the crucial Babri Masjid hearing in which senior...
Huge blast near Indian embassy in Kabul, all officials safe
A huge explosion has hit the Afghan capital, Kabul, say reports. The explosion occurred near the Indian embassy in the diplomatic area of the city. Early reports say the glass panes of the windows and doors of the embassy are damaged....
NH-74 scam: Pressure on Rawat to withdraw names of NHAI officials from FIR
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, who had recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation probe in the multi-crore NH24 scam, appears to be under pressure from the Centre to withdraw the names of NHAI officials from a first information report...
Armed man at Orlando airport taken into custody after standoff
Orlando: A man with a gun at Orlando International Airport on Tuesday night has been taken into custody after a lengthy standoff in a rental car area, police said. "Everyone is safe," #Orlando police tweeted. Earlier, police spokeswoman Sgt Wanda Miglio said...
President Donald J. Trump’s “radical shift” on US visa policies could damage India’s $150 billion technology sector
Representational Pic New Delhi: A top Indian executive has finally admitted that President Trump is bad news for the nation's vast tech industry. Vineet Nayyar, the vice chairman of major Indian outsourcing firm Tech Mahindra, said Trump's "radical shift" on U.S....
