OPS and team head to resort where Sasikala’s MLAs are holed up

Chennai: Tamil Nadu CM O Pannerselvam leaves for the Golden Bay resort at Koovathur where AIADMK MLAs corralled by Sasikala over the eight days have been staying. In fact, Sasikala has also been staying at the resort since last night...

SC clears the air on national anthem in theatres and you must read this

The Supreme Court says that people are not obliged to stand up when the national anthem is played as part of a film or a documentary. On November 30, the apex court had made it mandatory for patrons in a theatre...

Sasikala Verdict: No Chief Ministership for Chinamma, Court asks her to surrender

New Delhi/Nagpur. VK Sasikala has been found guilty of corruption by the Supreme Court and will have to surrender to the police in Chennai so that she can be jailed for four years. This ends her bid to be Chief Minister...

BMC Election: I See A Mid-Term Poll Ahead, Uddhav Thackeray To NDTV

Mumbai: Uddhav Thackeray has a premonition: "I see a mid-term election happening, the people seem ready." The presage is not derived from the astrologers that politicians regularly draw on. As the leader of one of the two parties in Maharashtra's...

Why Dainik Jagran Consciously Violated the Law by Publishing an Exit Poll

By publishing the contents of an exit poll for the first phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh – which says the BJP is likely to repeat its 2014 Lok Sabha performance – Dainik Jagran, the largest read newspaper in India,...

Hindu population is reducing, minorities are flourishing in India: Rijiju

New Delhi: The Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju has sparked a controversy by saying that the population of Hindus is decreasing in the country. "Hindu population is reducing in India because Hindus never convert people. Minorities in India...

MNS candidate delivers baby during poll campaigning

Pune: Amid the municipal poll frenzy in Pune, a pregnant MNS corporator seeking re-election, delivered a baby on Thursday, bringing unexpected joy to her family and near ones. Rupali Patil, contesting from Shaniwar Peth-Narayan Peth ward on Maharashtra Navnirman Sena’s (MNS)...

Woman who accused SP MLA of rape found dead

Sultanpur: A 22-year-old woman, who had accused Samajwadi Party MLA Arun Verma of raping her along with some other youth in 2013, was found murdered near her house in Sultanpur, police said today. The body of the woman, who was...

Ground under her feet getting slippery – AIADMK Minister Pandiarajan breaks rank to join OPS

Chennai: Considered a close ally of 'Chinnamma' Sasikala till yesterday, Education Minister in Jaya's cabinet Pandiarajan has crossed over to the side of 'acting C.M.' O.Pannerselvam. Announcing his decision, he tweeted;

Will surely listen to the collective voice...

PM lauds missile defence test, uses it to mock Oppn

Lucknow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today lauded the successful test of interceptor missile and used the occasion to take a dig at opponents, saying they would now have to travel "very high" if they want proof of it. Addressing an election...

Modi likes peeping into bathrooms, Google searching: Rahul Gandhi

Lucknow: Taking a swipe at Narendra Modi for his "raincoat in bathroom" barb at Manmohan Singh, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today said the Prime Minister was more interested in "peeping into bathrooms of people". The Congress Vice President also said that...

BHIM app is now on iOS platform

New Delhi: National Payments Corporation of India today said Bharat Interface for Money, the platform for making easy and quick payments, is available on Apple app store for download and use. The BHIM app on iOS platform is equipped with features...

RBI Governor nudges banks to reduce lending rates

New Delhi: RBI Governor Urjit Patel today exhorted banks to reduce their lending rates to push credit demand in laggard segments, saying banks have benefited from influx of low-cost deposits and its previous repo rate cuts. "One the amount of reduction...

Sasikala set to meet AIADMK MLAs at Koovathur resort

Chennai : Soon after requesting the Tamil Nadu Governor to allot time to parade party MLAs supporting her, AIADMK General Secretary V K Sasikala today set out to meet the legislators staying at a nearby resort. She left from the Poes...

Uddhav questions Maria’s transfer during Sheena case probe

Mumbai: Needling the BJP which has made transparency its main plank for the BMC polls, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray said that Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis should reveal why former city police commissioner Rakesh Maria was transferred in the middle...

BJP Sangeet Som’s brother Gagan arrested for carrying pistol inside polling booth in UP

Lucknow: BJP, the party that has been accusing ruling SP for having turned UP into a crime and mafia state, seem to have been found guilty on this count itself on the first day of polling in UP. BJP lawmaker Sangeet...

Passenger opens plane’s emergency chute at Mumbai airport, 1 hurt

Mumbai: A passenger onboard an IndiGo plane from here to Chandigarh opened the emergency chute of the aircraft "accidentally", resulting in injury to a co-passenger, following which the airline lodged an FIR against the accused. The incident occurred this morning when...

Sasikala vs Panneerselvam: Are over 100 AIADMK MLAs being held captive with no cell phones or access to TV?

Chennai:  Governor Vidyasagar Rao has asked Tamilnadu DGP to ascertain reports that many MLAs are being held captive in a resort near Chennai against their will. Cell phones have been jammed; there is no access to internet and they are...

I ordered rapists be hung upside down, salt put on wounds: Uma Bharti

Bulandshahr: Union Minister Uma Bharti told a large crowd while campaigning in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr on Thursday that she made rapists "beg for forgiveness" when she was Chief Minister. The Times of India reports: In a startling and graphic revelation, Bharti...

Will hear plea to trace ‘missing’ BSF jawan: HC

New Delhi: Delhi HC agrees to hear today a plea seeking to trace 'missing' BSF jawan, who posted video alleging that poor quality food was served to them. Tej Bahadur Yadav - the BSF constable whose Facebook video about the food...