In Kerala’s cycle of political violence, left worker attacked, BJP office bombed
Kozhikode: In a fresh round of political violence in Kerala, a CPM youth activist was attacked with sharp weapons in Palakkad on Thursday. 30-year-old Ratheesh and his friend are in hospital. Ratheesh has named three BJP activists in his complaint...
Infant Mortality Rate: Kerala now at par with US
Kerala: Kerala has become the best Indian state -- at par with US -- for new born babies with the 'God's own country' managing to bring down the Infant Mortality Rate 6. The IMR -- number of children under the age...
Indian origin girl racially abused in New York
New York: An Indian-origin girl in the US has been allegedly racially abused by an African-American man (pictured alongside) who called her inappropriate names and yelled "get out of here" when she was travelling in a busy commuter train. Ekta...
DU limps back to normalcy with NSUI’s rose day
New Delhi: The Congress Party's students wing, NSUI, starts the 'Gift a rose' campaign outside Ramjas college to restore peace in the campus. Teachers, students and journalists were wounded on the Delhi University campus as group clashes broke out over the...
SC Order On Liquor Vends Near Highways Not Applicable To Bars: AG’s Opinion
Kerala: Kindling hope in the mind of those owning bars near highways in Kerala, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi has told the Kerala government that the Supreme Court order banning liquor vends within 500 metres of state and national highways does...
SC notice to Maha government on plea of bar dancers’ body
File Pic New Delhi: The Supreme Court today sought a response from the Maharashtra government on a plea of a bar dancers' body challenging the constitutional validity of a 2016 state law putting conditions on dance performances by women in bars...
BJP asks for female cops to check voter IDs of burqa-clad women in UP
Representational Pic Lucknow: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has written to the Election Commission demanding deployment of women police officials at booths during the sixth and seventh phases of polling in Uttar Pradesh to check the voter IDs of burqa-clad...
Bengaluru’s Rs 1800 cr VVIP steel flyover project scrapped
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government on Thursday scrapped the controversial Bengaluru steel flyover project. Bengaluru development minister K J George announced the cancellation of the steel bridge project, that has been mired in controversy from the day it was conceived. The move comes...
What St Stephen’s students beaten up by ABVP told police
New Delhi: Delhi Police's Crime Branch, which is probing the clashes at Ramjas College, has recorded the statements of two St Stephen's College students who were allegedly beaten up by supporters of ABVP. The two St Stephen's students- a boy and...
Model GST Bill to go for 20% peak tax, slabs intact for now
New Delhi: The GST Council has proposed to raise the peak tax rate to 20 per cent, from the current 14 per cent, in the model goods and services tax Bill to preclude the requirement of approaching Parliament for any...
UP Election 2017: On train from Mumbai, young men who didn’t find jobs in state return to vote
Gorakhpur: By the time the Lokmanya Tilak - Gorakhpur Express, a daily train from Mumbai to eastern Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur town, pulls up at Gonda, 19-year old Rajesh Kumar Gupta has already spent 27 hours in it, a long ride...
Manipur Election 2017: It’s Pineapple, says Congress on PM Narendra Modi’s ‘coconut juice’ jibe at Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah mocked Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, alleging that he had talked about "coconut juice made in Manipur" at an election rally in that state on Tuesday, the Congress...
US House Speaker condoles death of Indian techie
Washington: Speaker Paul Ryan on behalf of the US House of Representatives has condoled the death of the Indian techie in a racially-motivated shooting by an American. Ryan met visiting Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar yesterday and expressed the House's condolences...
RSS leader announces Rs 1 crore reward for Kerala CM’s head
Ujjain: A Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader from Madhya Pradesh has held Kerala Chief Minister and senior Left leader Pinarayi Vijayan responsible for the killing of its members in the state and has announced a reward of Rs one crore for...
Coca Cola, Pepsi can use water from Tamiraparani River In TN: HC
Chennai: In a major relief for multinational beverage companies Coca Cola and Pepsi, the Madras High Court on Thursday said the two soft drinks majors can draw water from Tamil Nadu's Thamirabarani river for producing soft drinks or packaged...
Modi should get side role in Kapil Sharma’s show: Cong
Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for mocking party vice-president Rahul Gandhi over his Imphal address, the Congress has called on the former to get his facts straight before taking jibes. "Modi ji has become an expert in comments and...
Man who made extortion call to Mahesh Bhatt detained in UP
The anti-extortion cell of the Mumbai Police has detained a person with the help of the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force in connection with the case involving a threatto kill veteran producer-director Mahesh Bhatt, his wife Soni Razdan and daughter...
Highest ever hike in non-subsidised LPG rates, increased by Rs. 86 per cylinder
The price of non-subsidised cooking gas (LPG) was hiked by a steep Rs. 86 per cylinder on Wednesday, reflecting international trends. Non-subsidised LPG, bought by those who have either given up their subsidies or exhausted the quota of 12 bottles of...
Two persons who have caught the world’s attention – one by a tweet and one in death
Nagpur/New Delhi: Two Indians are all over the news these days, in India and elsewhere. They are in the eyes of a storm that refuses to calm down. I am sure just a few days ago neither would have believed...
Back home after Oscars, Sunny Pawar meets Uddhav
Mumbai: Mumbai boy and "Lion" star Sunny Pawar and his family met Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray at his residence today. Back from Los Angeles, Sunny said he had a great time at the 89th Academy Awards ceremony. The eight-year-old child...
Bengaluru molestation: Woman identifies attacker
Bengaluru : The Bengaluru Police achieved a breakthrough in the Kammanahalli sexual assault case in which a woman was groped and molested by two men on a scooter on the night of December 31, 2016. The assault victim identified the accused...
