West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee met some BJP leaders on Wednesday and called on UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi at her home in the evening. Banerjee, who heads the ruling Trinamool Congress in Bengal, was seen entering 10, Janpath at about 7pm. “We want Congress to help the regional pa

New Delhi: Several media houses were prepared to enter into a ‘cash for coverage’ deal with an undercover reporter posing as a representative of an organisation promoting Hindutva for electoral purposes, investigative portal cobrapost.com revealed at a crowded press conference here on Monday. As

NEW DELHI: In one of the rarest cases, a railway log operator on Tuesday diverted a New Delhi bound passenger train to Old Delhi railway station by mistake, causing inconvenience to hundreds of people, officials said. The railways have suspended the erring official, identified only as Aslam. The

NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will pay a three-day visit to Japan starting tomorrow during which she will co-chair the strategic dialogue with her Japanese counterpart Taro Kono and review the entire gamut of bilateral ties. The 9th India-Japan Strategic Dialogue will take plac

NEW DELHI: In the wake of a death of a journalist investigating illegal sand mining cases in Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh, the state’s chief minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, on Monday said security of journalists was the government’s priority and strict action would be taken against the culprit.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Upset that a road accident victim had urinated in his ambulance, the driver left the critically injured man in a near inverted position on a stretcher outside the Thrissur Medical College Hospital in Kerala. The man died within hours. A shocking video reportedly shot by a witn

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday lashed out at various saffron outfits in the state a day after many of them took out armed rallies on the occasion of Ram Navami. "Did Lord Ram instruct them to take out processions with pistols and swords? A section of hooligans are tarnishing

KR PETE (KARNATAKA): Continuing his attack on the Janata Dal (Secular), Congress president Rahul Gandhi today asked former prime minister H D Deve Gowda's party to come clean on its support to the BJP. "JD(S), they have to make it clear whether they are the BJP's B team or not," Gandhi said at a pu

BENGALURU: Inspector General of Police (Home Guard and Civil Defence, Bengaluru) D Roopa IPS has refused to accept 'Namma Bengaluru Award' as it also carries a high cash reward In a letter written to the chairman of Namma Bengaluru Foundation, a non-profit organisation based out of Bengaluru, IPS

LUCKNOW: Two men have been killed in an encounter blitz in western Uttar Pradesh in a span of 24 hours. The police shot dead the two men in Noida and Saharanpur. Five others who are alleged to be involved in several criminal cases in UP were injured during gunfights with the police. In Noida, 15

An 11-year-old Class V student died on Friday night after being allegedly gangraped and set ablaze by three men in Lalung Gaon village of Assam’s Nagaon district. The minor was taken to a local hospital with severe burn injuries, and later referred to a Guwahati hospital where she died, the police s

A National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Kochi sentenced Yasmeen Mohammad Zahid, a native of Bihar, to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for her involvement in the recruitment of 15 persons from the state’s Kasaragod district into the Islamic State terrorist group. Before the verdict, 30

The Delhi Police on Saturday tendered their “deepest apologies” for the alleged harassment of two media personnel yesterday when police resorted to baton charge on protesting students of JNU, IANS reported. The two journalists were allegedly attacked by Delhi Police personnel when they were covering

In a shocking development reported from the state of Kerala, a young woman was stabbed to death just days ahead of her marriage. The woman, identified as Athira, was only 22-years-old and was about to get married soon. However, what makes the entire incident grim is that the accused who allegedly st

MEERUT: In a shocking video that has gone viral, a man is seen thrashing his 25-year-old wife mercilessly after a panchayat verdict allowed him to do so. The incident according to police occurred in Longa village of Syana region of Bulandshahr on March 10, but the video became viral only on Thursday

The Delhi High Court on Friday quashed the notification issued by President Ram Nath Kovind to disqualify 20 Aam Admi Party (AAP) MLAs following such a recommendation by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in the wake of the charge that they were holding office of profit as parliamentary secretar

NEW DELHI: Aadhaar data has been secured by a 2048-encryption key that will take a supercomputer more than the age of universe, or over 13 billion years, to crack, Ajay Bhushan Pandey, the chief of UIDAI which runs the identification programme, told the Supreme Court today. Mr Pandey, who made an 80

Indian Technomac Company Limited director Vinay Kumar Sharma was finally arrested on Wednesday after four years of investigation into an alleged Rs 6,000-crore fraud. Sharma was produced before a local court, which remanded him to three-day police (CID) custody. The accused is the son of IAS office