Ram museum is tourism, not politics, says BJP minister ahead of Ayodhya tour
Uttar Pradesh/Nagpur: The approaching elections in Uttar Pradesh have made the communally-sensitive town of Ayodhya a point of huge interest and activity again - and brought Lord Ram back to the centre of the BJP's agenda. Though the central government has...
Mumbai police promise protection during Ae Dil Hai Mushkil release
Mumbai/Nagpur: Mumbai police assure protection during the release of Karan Johar's Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. The film is releasing over the Diwali weekend. Fox Star, one of the producers of Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, met the Mumbai police commissioner seeking protection...
Air India flight from Ahmedabad suffers tyre burst at Mumbai airport
Image used for representational purposes only An Air India plane carrying 128 passengers and crew members from Ahmedabad suffered a tyre burst while landing at the Mumbai airport this morning. All passengers are safe and another aircraft has been arranged...
Fire breaks out in Mumbai’s Maker Towers building, 2 dead
Mumbai: Two persons died on Tuesday in a fire at the Maker Tower in Mumbai, a prominent residential complex in the city's south. The fire broke out early this morning on the 20th floor of the sea-facing building in the Cuffe...
Fire engulfs SUM hospital in Bhubaneswar, 14 feared dead
Bhubaneshwar: A major fire broke out in SUM hospital, a leading private healthcare institute, here on Monday evening, triggering panic among patients and attendants. 14 patient ARE feared dead and several others suffered suffocation-related injuries, police sources said. Fire service sources...
RSS Man Hacked to Death in Bengaluru, Workers Take To Streets
Section 144 was imposed on Sunday in six police station limits in Bangalore, after an RSS worker was hacked to death by two motorcyle-borne men on an arterial road, police said. Prohibitory orders were imposed in Shivajinagar, Frazer Town, DJ HAlli,...
No medical bulletin on Jayalalithaa’s condition for 6 days
As suspense continued about the health condition of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa admitted to Apollo Hospitals last month, there was no medical bulletin about her health from the hospital for the sixth consecutive day. Apollo Hospitals, in its...
Chhattisgarh: BJP leaders son accused of gang rape
Representational Pic Woman gang-raped by three men in a car in Mahasamund, Chhattisgarh. BJP leader's son is the accused and is absconding, two others held. While two of the accused Devendra (23) and Farid Ali (26) have been arrested, Princely Saluja,...
Terrorists snatch 5 rifles from cops guarding TV tower in J-K
Representational image Separatist militants snatched weapons from TV tower guards in south Kashmir's Anantnag district, police said on Monday. The police said the militants attacked the guards posted at a Low Power Transmitter station of public service broadcaster Doordarshan in...
Omar Abdullah detained at US airport for 2 hours
Former Jammu-Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said he was stopped at a New York airport for two hours on Monday for extra immigration checks. "Another `random' secondary immigration check upon landing in the US. Thrice in three visits, the randomness...
Jayalalitha’s condition improves “she will come out like a tigress” say party workers
Chennai/Nagpur: Multiple sources in Chennai have confirmed that the condition of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha has improved significantly in the past two days and she has been off the ventilator during the day. She is on respiratory support...
No respect even in death: Dalit HIV victim cremated in front of house
Representational Pic Odisha/Nagpur: A Dalit man who succumbed to HIV virus had to be cremated in front of his home in a village in Odisha after locals refused to allow the last rites at the public cremation ground. The deceased, 35-year-old...
19 dead, 4 hurt in stampede at Varanasi’s Rajghat Bridge
Varanasi/Nagpur: Nineteen people have died and four have been injured in a stampede in Varanasi at the Rajghat Bridge. The stampede took place during Baba Jai Gurudev's sabha in Varanasi. A doctor at a hospital said that of the 19 brought...
Why is Sadhvi Pragya in jail after NIA dropped charges, asks High Court
Mumbai/Nagpur: Hearing a bail application of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, arrested in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, the Bombay High Court on Friday asked how she could be kept in prison when the prosecuting agency had said there was...
‘Muslim Personal Law Board using sharia to perpetuate patriarchy’
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board's decision to boycott the Law Commission's questionnaire on triple talaq and polygamy drew sharp reactions from Muslim women across the country, with some activists even speaking out against the...
1 jawan killed, 8 injured as terrorists attack SSB camp in J&K
A jawan of paramilitary force Sashastra Seema Bal was killed and eight others, including a policeman, were injured on Friday when militants attacked security convoy in Zakura area on the outskirts of Srinagar. Militants fired at the vehicles of Sashastra Seema...
MP minister meets martyr’s mother who accused cops of seeking bribe to find his stolen medal
Bhopal/Nagpur: Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Bhupendra Singh meets martyr Devashish Sharma's mother Nirmala Sharma in Bhopal. Nirmala, mother of the martyred Army Captain, had accused Shahpur police in Madhya Pradesh of demanding a bribe to find bravery medals of her son...
17 dead after bus falls into gorge in MP
Madhya Pradesh/Nagpur: At least 17 persons were killed and several others injured today when a private bus fell into a gorge near Namli town in Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh today, police said. "So far nine persons have been found dead...
BRICS summit begins in Goa – why is BRICS important – and what will happen at this summit?
Goa/Nagpur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in Goa today to attend the two-day BRICS summit which begins in south Goa on Saturday. Speaking to the media at the State Secretariat in the evening, Mr. Parsekar C,M, of Goa said that...
Congress leaders miffed as Govt suddenly cancels briefing of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defense
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: Without giving any explanation, the Defense Ministry has decided to cancel the briefing that top brass of the Ministry were to give today, 14th October, to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defense on the surgical strikes carried...
Don’t make triple talaq debate political: Centre to Muslim Law Board
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: Asking All India Muslim Personal Law Board not to make political statements over the issue of triple talaq, the Centre on Friday said that the core issue is gender justice and not politics. Referring MPLB's press conference...
