Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday took oath as a Rajya Sabha member for a new six-year term. He was re-elected to the House from Uttar Pradesh on April 3. Jaitley was unable to take oath during the recently-concluded budget session of Parliament due to his ill health. He was administered

On the heels of the brutal gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua in Jammu and the rape of another minor in Unnao in UP allegedly by a BJP MLA, comes another shocker from Surat where police found the body of a nine-year-old girl with over 80 injuries. The body of the unidentifie

New Delhi: With a month to go for the Karnataka Assembly elections where the ruling Congress is involved in a pitched battle against the BJP, the Election Commission has accepted a plea seeking cancellation of the Congress ‘hand’ symbol and is set to hear the plea filed by a BJP leader on April 18.

BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who is accused of raping a 17-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district, was on Saturday sent to seven-day police custody.  The CBI has also arrested Shashi Singh, who allegedly took the woman to Sengar. The BJP MLA, who was on Friday arrested by the CBI, was p

NAINITAL: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's office spent a total of Rs 1.03 crore (Rs 1,03,04,162) on tea and snacks during the three years of his tenure. The information was revealed by a Haldwani-based activist who had sought a response to an RTI query he had filed in February. The RTI rep

NEW DELHI:  One of the petitioners in the Ishrat Jahan case, Gopinath Pillai, died today after a road accident in Kerala. Gopinath Pillai was the father of Pranesh Kumar Pillai, who, along with Ishrat Jahan and two others, was shot dead by the Gujarat police in 2004. Gopinath Pillai, a retired te

On Thusday, three persons, including a woman, have been arrested for their alleged involvement in leaking the CBSE Class 10 Mathematics paper in connivance with a teacher arrested earlier from Himachal Pradesh, said Delhi Police. Delhi Police said two men and a woman have been arrested in connect

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated a defence exhibition in Mahabalipuram near Chennai amid protests by opposition parties and Tamil groups against what they say is the central government’s failure to form the Cauvery management board despite the Supreme Court’s order. Protesters

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Waqf Board to produce documents that bear the signature of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to prove its claim of ownership on the Taj Mahal. According to a report in Hindustan Times, the apex court on Tuesday gave the board a week's time to

The uproar over the death in custody of the father of a 17-year-old girl who alleged she had been raped by BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar saw UP police arrest Atul Singh, the MLA’s brother. On Tuesday, he became the fifth person to be held — and sent to judicial custody — in connection with the brutal

MUMBAI: In a subtle hint of his hopes of the the BJP and the Shiv Sena jointly contesting the next year's polls, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said that all "secular but Hindutva" parties would come together to counter the "pseudo-secular" opposition. He said the BJP-Shiv Sena

“The right to marry a person of one’s choice is integral to Article 21 (right to life and liberty) of the Constitution”, the Supreme Court said Monday and set aside a 2017 order of the Kerala High Court which annulled the marriage of Kerala Muslim convert girl Hadiya and Shefin Jahan. The three-j

LUCKNOW: A magisterial inquiry will be initiated into the death of the father of the woman who said that she was raped by a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA. “Judicial Magistrate’s inquiry will be conducted, and whoever is found guilty will not be spared,” Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Law an

NEW DELHI: The Union Home Ministry on Monday issued an advisory to all the states asking them to beef up security and take necessary precautionary measures in view of calls for Bharat Bandh by some groups on April 10. The development comes following the circulation of several posts and messages o

Hours before he was shot at by unidentified assailants, a Ghaziabad-based journalist had asked a policeman — assigned to him after he told police that there was a Rs 10 lakh contract for his murder — to return home since he was “not going to step out all day”, police have said. The journalist, id

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday led his party in a nationwide daylong fast against caste violence, communalism and the non-functioning of Parliament, for which the UPA major blames the ruling BJP. Congress workers are observing a daylong fast in all state and district headquarters to vo

An Indian driver in Dubai has hit a jackpot by winning a whopping dirham 12 million (approximately Rs. 21.21 crore) in a raffle draw in Abu Dhabi, the latest addition to the long list of lucky winners from India. John Varughese, who has been working as a driver for a private company since 2016 wh

As the battle between Karnakata and Tamil Nadu intensifies over the Cauvery issue, actors turned politicians Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan joined a protest in Chennai, demanding the formation of Cauvery Managment Board (CMB). Actors including Dhanush, Vishal, Surya and music composer Ilayaraja are al