Leadership erred by removing Akhilesh as SP chief: Ram Gopal Yadav
Lucknow:Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav, who was rushed to Lucknow to resolve the ongoing crisis in the party, said on Thursday that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Ahilkesh Yadav was not consulted by the central leadership before being removed from...
SC spares Soumya case convict from death penalty
New Delhi: Supreme Court sets aside the death penalty, reduces death penalty to life sentence. The Supreme Court acquitted Govindachami of murder charges while upholding the conviction under Section 376 IPC for rape. Partly allowing the appeal preferred by the accused...
CBI to probe Bihar journalist Rajdev Ranjan’s murder
Patna/Nagpur: In a major development, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is set to take over the probe into the murder of Hindustan daily's Siwan bureau chief Rajdev Ranjan. This comes after a furore erupted over Mohammad Kaif, the wanted sharpooter...
Scribe ‘gets threatening calls’ after AAP minister Kapil Mishra tweets number
Police has registered a case in connection with alleged threatening calls received by mediaperson Dipak Chaurasia after his phone number was tweeted by Aam Aadmi Party minister Kapil Mishra. 'A criminal case under Sections 506 (criminal intimidation), 507 (criminal intimidation by...
AIADMK likely to stake claim for Vice President’s post
The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is likely to push the National Democratic Alliance government to make party leader M Thambidurai, who is currently deputy speaker of the Lok Sabha, the Vice President of India. Senior party leaders have written...
Congress MLA hurls shoe at Punjab minister Majithia in assembly
Congress MLA Tarlochan Sund hurled shoe at Punjab minister Bikram Singh Majithia during assembly session on Wednesday. Sund, along with other Congress members, assembled around the Speaker's chair, demanding a debate on their no-confidence motion against the state government. They shouted slogans...
Kerala Chief Minister Vijayan Targets Amit Shah For His Greeting On Onam
Thiruvananthapuran: On the eve of Thiruvonam -- the main and the last day of Onam festivities in Kerala -- Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan took a dig at BJP chief Amit Shah, calling his Onam greeting an insult to Malayalees...
Will decide on quitting only after talking to Mulayam, says Shivpal
Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Yadav, who was stripped of key ministerial portfolios by his nephew and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav yesterday, has put the ball in party chief and his brother Mulayam Singh Yadav's court over decision on...
105-year-old who sold goats to build toilet made Swachh Bharat mascot
105-year-old Kunwar Bai, who was felicitated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for building toilet by selling off her goats, has been chosen as the 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' mascot. The PM will felicitate Kunwar Bai at a function in the national capital...
IRCTC to make Aadhaar compulsory for booking tickets?
New Delhi: The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation is likely to make Aadhaar cards mandatory for booking train tickets from December, 2016. Passengers who dont have Aadhaar Card wont be able to book train tickets, Trak.in reported. This major collaboration...
Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict attacked in Vellore prison
Vellore: Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict A G Perarivalan was attacked with iron rods by fellow prisoners in Vellore Central Prison. He is injured in the attack and is being treated inside the prison. Perarivalan is one of the convicts serving life...
Cauvery violence: Central forces deployed in Bengaluru
Central forces -- Central Reserve Police Force, Central Industrial Security Force, Railway Police Force -- have been deployed to assist Bengaluru City Police to maintain law and order all over the city. Quick Reaction Teams of Karnataka State Police have also...
Stung by tweet, Kejriwal calls journalist Shekhar Gupta a Modi agent
Early this morning, Arvind Kejriwal tweeted this in Hindi: 'If you want to do politics come out in the open. Earlier you were an agent of the Congress, now of Modi? Such people have given journalism a bad name.'
Domino’s to go pure veg during Navaratri in north, central India
United States pizza giant Domino's will turn all its outlets in north and central India completely vegetarian on the occasion of Navarati festivities starting early next month. According to an Economic Times report, about 500 Domino's stores in north, central and...
SC modifies order on Cauvery water release
Modifying its September 5 order on Cauvery water dispute, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Karnataka government to release 12,000 cusecs water to Tamil Nadu per day till September 20. Earlier, it had ordered Karnataka to release 15,000 cusecs for...
Firing resumes in Poonch, one terrorist still holed up
Firing has again started in Poonch between terrorists and security forces and the encounter which was believed to have ended after elimination of three terrorists has again commenced. Reports say one terrorist is still holed up in the area where the...
JNU election results: Left alliance sweeps all 4 seats
New Delhi/Nagpur: The Left alliance on Saturday swept all the four seats in Jawaharlal Nehru University students’ union elections. The elections that took place on Friday saw a good voter turnout of 60 per cent, significantly higher than the last two...
4.1 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Haryana, Tremors In Delhi And Gurgaon
New Delhi: Strong tremors were felt in Delhi and neighbouring Gurgaon and Noida on Saturday evening when an earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter Scale struck Jhajjar in Haryana. Reports said strong tremors were felt in Gurgaon for nearly two seconds....
IT Capital Bengaluru comes to a standstill over SC decision on Cauvery water sharing
Bengaluru/Nagpur: As per the Supreme Court order, and despite many protests, water did flow from Karnataka to File Pic Tamilnadu - 15,000 cusecs of it from various water reservoirs near Mysore but two days later life in most of Karnataka came...
Army back in Kashmir’s crisis zone after 2 years
For the first time since 2014, the army took up positions in rural areas of four trouble-tossed South Kashmir districts of Pulwama, Shopian, Kulgam and Anantnag, which witnessed the bulk of violence in the last two months, accounting for more...
DU Students’ Union Polls: ABVP Wins 3 Top Posts, NSUI Gets 1
New Delhi ABVP, the student's body linked to the ruling BJP, has won three of the top posts of the Delhi University Students' Union but ceded one position to the Congress's student wing NSUI. Elections of the Delhi University Students'...
