Police foils jail break bid of 37
An alleged bid by 37 undertrials, including suspected Maoist central committee leader Gopanna, to escape from a court lock-up in Jagdalpur in Chhattisg- arh’s Bastar district, nearly 300 km from here,...
View ArticleIndia wins re-election to UN human rights body
India on Tuesday got re-elected to the UN’s main human rights body for the period of 2015-17. India is currently a member of the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council and its term will end on December 31,...
View ArticleEx-Maharashtra ministers told to vacate houses by today
Ministers in erstwhile Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra, which is currently under President’s rule, have been asked to vacate their official bungalows by Wednesday. Additional chief secretary...
View ArticleAmit Shah rejigs BJP portfolios: Om Mathur will handle Uttar Pradesh
Amit Shah rejigs BJP portfolios: Om Mathur will handle Uttar PradeshSenior BJP leader Om Mathur, who was the party’s poll in-charge for the Maharashtra Assembly elections, was named the in-charge of...
View ArticleSpurt in gold demand on Dhanteras due to lower prices
Spurt in gold demand on Dhanteras due to lower prices The demand for gold zoomed on Dhanteras across India Tuesday as people flocked to buy the yellow metal given low prices and a pickup in economic...
View ArticleRSS’ Manohar Lal Khattar to be Haryana Chief Minister
Haryana CM-designate M.L. Khattar meets the media in Chandigarh Tuesday. — PTIBJP in no rush to decide on Maharashtra: Sena or NCP; Fadnavis or Gadkari for CM? Long-time RSS pracharak and first-time...
View ArticleBengaluru's horror continues: 4-year-old kindergarten girl raped in school,...
(Photo: ANI Twitter)The city's paedophiles struck again on Tuesday, this time brutalizing a four-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by staff at her school in Jalahalli. The city police top brass...
View ArticleGovernment won’t dilute or partially lift AFSPA
The Centre’s new policy on Jammu and Kashmir will clearly spell out the government’s firm stand on the contentious issue of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in the state as it will categorically...
View ArticlePM Modi can’t dictate, says Parvez Musharraf
Former Pakistan President Parvez Musharraf on Wednesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that he is anti-Pakistan and anti-Muslim, and that he cannot dictate terms to his country on the...
View ArticleFiring at IB a day after Arun Jaitley warns Pakistan
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah pats an Army dog as GOC 15 Corps Lt. Gen. Subrata Saha (left) looks. PTIA day after defence minister Arun Jaitley warned Pakistan over its “adventurism”,...
View ArticleA packed schedule awaits PM Modi in Jammu and Kashmir
Security personnel check a vehicle at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk on Wednesday during a high alert on the eve of PM Modi's visit. PTIPrime Minister Narendra Modi will have a busy day to spend in Jammu and...
View ArticleMissing for 40 years, man turns up in Dubai clinic
His family “lost” him 40 years ago. But he turned up suddenly in a Dubai hospital... ailing and living on shreds of fond memories of a home and dear ones he had left four decades ago. Thrissur-born...
View ArticleTarun Gogoi set to meet Sonia Gandhi for reshuffle talks
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Wednesday announced that he will be reshuffling his council of ministers in the next few days. Informing that he was leaving for New Delhi on Friday to discuss...
View Article‘Don’t blackmail on black money’
The Congress on Wednesday asked the Modi government not to resort to “blackmail” on the issue of naming black-money holders and dared it to come out with full information without indulging in...
View ArticlePM Modi invites NDA MPs to high tea on Sunday
With the Maharashtra and Haryana polls successfully out of the way, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited all National Democratic Alliance MPs to tea at his residence on Sunday. This is the PM’s...
View ArticleBJP sets up war rooms in eight states
After its historic victories in Haryana and Maharashtra, the BJP is rapidly spreading its saffron network to get more states into its kitty. The party has set up war rooms in eight target states Uttar...
View ArticleBJP hints it won’t take NCP support
Uddhav Thackeray-Amit Shah talks likely on Thursday Ruling out any official truck with the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party, the BJP in Mahrashtra will be staking claim on its own if its...
View ArticleBangalore 3-year-old girl rape: Criminal case filed against school, attendant...
Bangalore Police have detained a suspect and filed a criminal complaint against the private school where a three-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her school teacher on Tuesday.According to reports,...
View ArticlePM Modi announces Rs 745-cr package for the flood-hit state
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Photo: PTIPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced a Rs 745-crore package for renovation of houses and six major hospitals damaged by the recent unprecedented...
View ArticleNitin Gadkari rules himself out of CM race, says 'I am happy in Delhi'
BJP leaders Nitin Gadkari and Devendra Fadnavis. (Photo: PTI)Amidst calls by several BJP MLAs in Maharashtra for Union minister Nitin Gadkari to be made the state's chief minister, the senior leader on...
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