A heavy dust storm swept across several parts of western and northern India on Wednesday, killing at least 68 people and injuring hundreds in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand and leaving a trail of destruction, uprooting trees and disrupting power supply in Punjab and Haryana as well. At

A day after a couple was harassed inside a metro train in Kolkata, a group of youngsters on Wednesday travelled between two stations as a mark of protest, offering ‘free hugs’ to commuters. According to an eye witness, the couple was allegedly taunted and manhandled by a group of elderly men and sub

A 17 -year-old student on Tuesday allegedly committed suicide near Chennai’s Tirunelveli railway station in an apparent protest. The deceased has blamed his father’s alcoholism for the incident which forced him to take the extreme step to end his life. The police have recovered the suicide note f

A special CBI court on Wednesday convicted Rajendra Nikalje alias Chhota Rajan and eight others for the murder of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey. All have been sentenced to life imprisonment. The court, however, acquitted journalist Jigna Vora and Joseph Paulson of all charges. Rajan and others wer

Kolkata Metro, which is the country’s first Mass Rapid Transit System, witnessed a shocking incident on Monday evening when a couple was thrashed for “standing too close to each other”. The incident took place at Dum Dum metro when the youth was beaten by a group of passengers. Images of the inciden

In the not-so-distant future, you would be able to use your mobile for calling and browsing the Internet mid-air through a flight. You would also be able to use apps like WhatsApp and Skype to make calls on landlines. These two were among the several key recommendations of the regulator that the Tel

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said India made no distinction between religions and had no history of attacking other countries or schools of thought. Speaking at an event here on the occasion of Buddha Purnima, the Prime Minister said the teachings of the Buddha were based on

Opposition parties on Monday lashed out at the BJP over the labelling of the candidates for the post of police constables with their respective caste on their chest during a medical examination in Madhya Pradesh on Monday. Congress president Rahul Gandhi launched a scathing attack on both the BJP

Extending warm greetings to the people on the auspicious month of Ramzan Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that Prophet Mohammad is an inspiration for all and his teaching of equality and brotherhood should be followed by all. While addressing his 43rd edition of monthly Radio programme

AHMEDNAGAR:  Two workers of the Nationalist Congress Party or NCP were shot dead by three unidentified men in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district last evening, police said today. The incident comes less than three weeks after two local Shiv Sena leaders were killed in a similar manner in Ahmednagar

JODHPUR: A purported audio clip of Asaram, serving his life-in-prison term at a Jodhpur jail, has surfaced online in which the self-styled godman is heard telling a person over phone that his time behind bars is ephemeral and "good days will come". According to Jodhpur Central Jail DIG Vikram Sin

New Delhi: Haryana's Anu Kumari, 31, secured second rank in UPSC exams and topped the prestigious examination among women. Mother of a four-year-old, Anu Kumari achieved this feat in her second attempt. She was just short of one mark in her previous UPSC preliminary examination. A devoted mother, sh

It was a glorious moment for Dalmia Bharat Group, as the 77-year-old conglomerate on Saturday adopted the iconic Red Fort under the Tourism Ministry's 'Adopt a Heritage' scheme started in 2017. "Dalmia Bharat Limited, Ministry of Tourism and Archaeological Survey of India sign MoU to take up the

NEW DELHI: Hindu religious bodies today told the Supreme Court that the Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid dispute in Ayodhya was purely a "property dispute" and the issue of political or religious senstivities cannot be a ground to refer the matter to a larger bench. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra an

Prime Minister Narendra Modi dialled Congress president Rahul Gandhi after learning about the Opposition leader’s mid-air scare during his flight from New Delhi to Hubli, where he is campaigning for the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections. Gandhi landed around Thursday noon and Modi called him soo

Chennai, April 25: A Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable managed to overpower a man while the latter was trying to sexually abuse a woman aboard a train. Late on Monday night, K Shivaji, the constable, was aboard an MRTS train along with his night patrol squad that also comprised a sub-inspecto

NEW DELHI: Self-styled godman Asaram was sentenced to life in prison - until death - by a special trial court, which earlier today found him guilty of raping a minor +in 2013. The two other people convicted in the rape got twenty years each in prison. The verdict and sentence were both pronoun

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested a suspected hawala operator in connection with foreign remittances worth Rs 2252.82 crore and involving 13 companies. On Monday, the agency arrested Mohammed Farooq, 39, from Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport under the Prevention of Mone