NEW DELHI: Congress President Rahul Gandhi once again targeted the Modi government for being complicit in proliferating scams and failing to deliver on the promise of employment generation. Without referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by name, Rahul raked up the issues of the Staff Selection

Tirupati: Authorities at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala in Andhra Pradesh have revealed that the temple currently has demonetised currency worth around Rs 25 crore. An official said lakhs of devotees had deposited the demonetised currency in the denomination of Rs 1000 and R

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today dismissed the intervention application of 32 eminent persons in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi case and fixed the next date of hearing for March 23. During the hearing, the apex court today dismissed all the intervention applications filed in the case. The cou

In a major setback to the BJP, the saffron party lost Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha seats for which elections were held on March 11. The loss in Gorakhpur – a seat the party had retained for 27 years which included five consecutive terms by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath – has come as a bigger sho

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today dismissed the plea of convict A G Perarivalan seeking recall of its May 1999 judgement upholding his conviction in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. A bench of justices Ranjan Gogoi, R Banumathi and M Shantanagoudar said it does not need to interfere with its

The Supreme Court on March 13 indefinitely extended the deadline for linking Aadhaar with mobile phones, tatkal passports and for opening bank accounts from March 31, 2018 till the Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra pronounces its final verdict on the validity of the Aadhaa

SRINAGAR: The NIA today raided the central jail in Srinagar and seized over two dozen mobile phones, jihadi literature and a Pakistani flag apart from data hardware, official spokesman said. At least 20 teams of the central probe agency, with commandos of the NSG and drones in tow, searched the b

MUMBAI: Under pressure from the opposition and ally Shiv Sena, the BJP-led Maharashtra government on Monday accepted the demands of agitating farmers + , including their right to till forest land, as thousands of agriculturists converged here in a sea of red. In a major victory for the farmers wh

Ghaziabad: In a shocking incident, a 38-year-old mother died of her injuries on Sunday, after her daughter brutally hit her with rods at their residence in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad March 9. According to police, the victim’s husband filed a complaint against her 18-year-old daughter and her femal

About 40 college students were trapped in a forest fire in the hills above Kurangani, a tourist spot in the Western Ghats of Theni district on Sunday evening. According to preliminary reports, the students were climbing down the hills from Munnar in Kerala to Theni on their own. It is the fore

NEW DELHI: Two doctors of a government hospital in Uttar Pradesh have been suspended and the authorities launched an investigation after a patient's severed leg was used as a pillow to prop up his head, a hospital official said Sunday. Administrators at the state-run Jhansi Medical College hospit

An FIR was registered against BJP MLA from Rudrapur seat, Rajkumar Thukral, for allegedly thrashing and abusing three Dalit women outside his residence on Saturday. According to the complaint, the incident took place on March 9 when Thukral called a “Panchayat” at his residence in Rudrapur, in Ut

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After a year of forced separation and a legal fight that finally validated their marriage, Hadiya and her husband Shafin Jahan reached Kerala early today morning. The couple had a stopover at Sainaba's house in Malappuram. Sainaba is said to have played a crucial role in the c

Trouble continued along Assam-Mizoram border on Saturday with the Mizoram Police alleging that a Mizo student was injured in firing on a group by the Assam Police at Zopui, while the latter denied the charge and claimed that the protesters were only pushed back when they tried to intrude into the st

Six months after the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh, Karnataka police on Friday arrested a man said to be linked with a right-wing radical group for his suspected involvement in the sensational killing. The Special Investigation Team, probing the murder, said it arrested alleged gunrunner KT

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is in Agartala for the swearing-in ceremony of Biplab Deb as Chief Minister of the north-eastern state, on Friday, said the Opposition in the state may have “experience” but we (BJP) are “enthusiastic” and “ambitious”. He also sought the Opposition’s cooperation in

Mumbai: Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Friday said she chose Manmohan Singh as the prime minister in 2004 as she was aware of her limitations and knew that he was a better candidate. She was speaking at the India Today Conclave in Mumbai. “I knew my limitations. I knew Manmohan Singh would be a

In a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court on Friday recognised that a terminally-ill patient or a person in persistent vegetative state can execute an “advance medical directive” or a “living will” to refuse medical treatment, saying the right to live with dignity also includes “smoothening” the pr