Jaitley files another Rs 10 cr suit against Kejriwal after Jethmalani calls him crook
New Dehi: BJP's Arun Jaitley has filed a fresh Rs 10 crore suit against Arvind Kejriwal after the Deli CM's counsel Ram Jethmalani used the word 'crook' while during cross-examination in court. India Today reports that Jaitley's lawyer Manik...
Yeddy chokes on idli controversy, orders food from restaurant at Dalit home
Downplaying allegations against State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief BS Yedyyurappa of eating breakfast brought from a nearby hotel at a Dalit household in Tumakuru, the BJP while defending its chief said the allegations are purely politically motivated. "The Congress and...
Melania, Ivanka refuse to wear head scarves during Saudi visit
First lady Melania Trump visits GE All women business process service center in Riyadh Riyadh: United States First Lady Melania Trump and President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump eschewed the strict Saudi Arabia dress code while attending different events in...
Jharkhand: Twin blasts rock Hazaribagh railway station
Hazaribagh : Panic and chaos ensued after two blasts took place late on Sunday night in Hazaribagh railway station of Jharkhand. The station where the blast occurred, falls on the railway line which goes to Kolkata from Delhi via Gaya and...
To save cow, RSS’s Muslim wing will serve milk at iftars
Nagpur/New Delhi: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's Muslim wing will organise iftars on Fridays in Uttar Pradesh this Ramzan and serve only cow milk and its products to drive home the message of 'save the cow' and that consumption of its...
Bill to make Gita compulsory in schools may come up in next Parliament session
A private member's bill that seeks to make the Bhagavad Gita compulsory reading in schools and recommends de-recognising institutes that do not follow suit may come up for discussion in the next session of Parliament. "The noble thoughts and teaching of...
Amit Shah shuts up journalists at Meet the Press, says ‘Aap chup ho jaiye, hum sab kar lenge’
File Pic Chandigarh: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah on Saturday left journalists agitated when he said,’aap chup ho jaiye‘ (you keep quiet), ‘hum sab kar lenge‘ to a serious question. The incident took place while he was...
2000 Sabarmati Express blast: Former AMU scholar Gulzar Ahmed Wani acquitted
New Delhi: Former Aligarh Muslim University scholar Gulzar Ahmed Wani will walk out of jail after 16 years with an Uttar Pradesh court today acquitting him of the charge of having orchestrated the Sabarmati Express blast in 2000 that claimed...
Government may step in if triple talaq practice not changed: Venkaiah Naidu
New Delhi: The government may have to step in and enact a law to ban triple talaq if the Muslim community fails to "change" the practice, Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu said on Saturday. "It is for the society to take...
EC demonstrates functioning of EVMs, debunks tampering charges
New Delhi: The Election Commission of India on Saturday demonstrated the working of electronic voting machines and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System, while brushing aside the EVM tampering allegation. After the demonstration, Dr Nasim Zaidi, Chief Election Commissioner of India...
Rajnath Singh announces Rs 1 crore aid to kin of martyred paramilitary jawans
Sherathang: Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday announced that the family of each paramilitary jawan who dies in action will be given a compensation of Rs 1 crore each. He also declared that 34,000 posts of paramilitary constables were upgraded as...
Kulbhushan Jadhav bigger terrorist than Ajmal Kasab, says Pervez Musharraf
New Delhi/Islamabad: Pakistan's former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf has called alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav a bigger criminal than 26/11 Mumbai attack perpetrator Ajmal Kasab. Asserting that Jhadav was involved in espionage and sabotage activities, Musharraf said that the former...
Indian-origin engineering student at Cornell University found dead
New York: A 20-year-old Indian-origin Cornell University student was found dead in New York after going missing this week. Aalaap Narasipura, a senior electrical engineering student at Cornell's College of Engineering was reported missing since Wednesday. Cornell University Police, working with the...
Hassan Rouhani wins Iran’s presidential election : State TV
Representational Pic Dubai/Beirut: Iran's state television has declared incumbent President Hassan Rouhani the winner of the country's presidential election, giving him a second four-year term. With nearly 40 million votes in Friday's hard-fought poll counted so far, Rouhani was leading the...
Will try Jadhav as per our laws: Pakistan home ministry
New Delhi: Days after the International Court of Justice stayed the execution of Kulbhushan Jadhav, Pakistan on Saturday said that it would try the former Indian Navy officer as per Pakistan's laws. Pakistan will handle Kulbhushan Jadhav's case as an espionage...
Kerala girl chops off man’s genitals to prevent rape bid
A 23-year-old girl in Kerala allegedly chopped off a man's genitals after he tried to rape her. The seriously injured man was admitted to the hospital following the incident which took place on Friday night. As per the police, the man was...
Woman chops off Swami’s genitals Kerala: Woman chops off Swami’s genitals, alleges she was being raped for years
A 23-year-old woman in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram chopped off the genitals of a Swami from an ashram after he allegedly tried to rape her on Friday night. The 'godman' has been identified as 54-year-old Hari alias Ganeshananda Theerthapada Swami. According to a report...
Uttarakhand landslide: No one was stranded, roads to open today, says CM
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Saturday assured that there have been neither casualties, injuries nor any cases of stranded passengers following the landslide yesterday evening, and assured that all blocked roads will be cleared today itself. 'No one was...
Five arrested in connection with Mathura jewellers’ murder
Five people, including the main accused, Ranga, on Saturday were arrested in connection with the murder of two jewellers in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura. Jewellers across the state observed a day-long strike yesterday to protest against the murder. The 48-hour ultimatum given by...
India at 154 behind B’desh, Nepal, China on health care index
India has a lot of catching up to do with its neighbours, including China, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka in terms of health care. According to the Global Burden of Disease Study published in the medical journal The Lancet, it has...
On King Salman intervention Zakir Naik granted Saudi citizenship
Press monitoring organisation Middle East Monitor (MEMO) has reported that controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik has been granted the citizenship of Saudi Arabia. It said that Saudi's King Salman 'personally intervened' to grant citizenship to Naik to 'save him from arrest...
