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

NEW DELHI: Congress leader and former law minister Salman Khurshid today defended his remarks that his party has "blood on its hands", saying that he made the controversial statement "as a human being". On Monday, Mr Khurshid was addressing students at the Aligarh Muslim University when he was as

Security was stepped up today in Jodhpur where prohibitory orders have already been clamped ahead of tomorrow's trial court verdict in the alleged rape of a teenager by self-styled godman Asaram who faces a minimum term of 10 years if convicted. Apprehending a threat to law and order, the Centre

Shiv Sena leader Sachin Sawant was shot dead by two unidentified assailants on Sunday evening in Mumbai. According to various media reports, Sawant was a up-shakha pramukh (deputy branch head) for Shiv Sena, and was slated to be promoted to shakha pramukh soon.  The incident occurred at around

Lodged in a Gorakhpur jail since September 2, 2017, after several children died in a short span at the city’s BRD Medical College Hospital in August last year, Dr Kafeel Khan has alleged that he and others are being made “scapegoats” for an “administrative failure” at a higher level. In a letter

Malappuram: The police on Saturday arrested five admins,  including a former RSS worker,   in connection with the hoax hartal call on April 16, protesting against  the rape and murder of the Kathua girl. The special investigation team constituted by Malappuram district police chief Debesh Kumar B

A man arrested for allegedly raping and killing a four-month-old infant was today assaulted by people when he was being taken to a magisterial court here, officials said. Superintendent of Police (SP) BPS Parihar said the accused did not sustain any injury in the attack. Amid outrage over the rap

Former Union finance minister and senior Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha on Saturday quit BJP, saying he would not engage in party politics. He announced this at a function in Patna, organised by Rashtra Manch, an apolitical forum. The function was also attended by rebel BJP MP Sha

The Union Cabinet on Saturday approved promulgation of an Ordinance to provide death penalty for rapists of girls below 12 years, according to a senior government official. The Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance provides for stringent punishment of a jail term of minimum 20 years or life imprison

Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan on Thursday filed a complaint against Bharatiya Janata Party youth wing leader Manish Chandela, who openly accepted on social networking platform Twitter to burning the Rohingya refugee camps in the national capital earlier this month. Bhushan was also miffed with

The Speaker's Research Initiative (SRI), Parliament of India has released an official notification inviting candidates for Lok Sabha Internship programme 2018. The last date of applying for Lok Sabha Internship 2018 is May 4, 2018, by 5 pm. "Applications are invited in the prescribed format for 5

Another former Mumbai Police commissioner has signed up for a political party. After Satyapal Singh who contested the 2014 polls and is now a minister of state, Arup Patnaik, who was the city police chief in 2011, joined the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Thursday. Arup Patnaik, known as the “bar busting

NEW DELHI: The resignation of a Hyderabad judge who cleared all the accused in the Mecca Masjid blast of 2007 earlier this week has been rejected.  Judge K Ravinder Reddy, who resigned hours after his "not guilty" verdict in the high profile case on Monday, has been asked to end his leave and return