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

BHUBANESWAR: Five more railway officials have been suspended after a train in Odisha travelled for 10 kilometres without an engine on Saturday night. Passengers of the Ahmedabad-Puri Express had a miraculous escape after the engine of the train was detached from the other coaches. Twenty two engine-

NEW DELHI: The Class 12 Economics paper of CBSE was leaked on March 23 - three days before the exam date - in Himachal Pradesh's Una town and it was shared on at least 40 WhatsApp groups, Delhi Police said on Saturday after the arrest of three people in this connection. The three - Rakesh Kumar,

The official website of Ministry of Defence was down on Friday and the government was working to restore it, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said. According to officials, there were Chinese characters on the website, indicating that Chinese hackers may be involved in it. While many believed the

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was today admitted to AIIMS and is scheduled to undergo a kidney transplant operation tomorrow, sources said. Jaitley, 65, has been suffering from a kidney ailment and skipped office since Monday. He has not even taken oath of office after being re-elected to the Rajya

Salman Khan was taken to the Jodhpur Central Jail today after being sentenced to five years in prison for killing blackbucks in 1998. The 52-year-old actor spent 18 days in the same jail in 1998, 2006 and 2007. His lawyers say he will spend the night in jail as his bail request will be heard only to

MUMBAI: The Bharatiya Janata Party will kickstart its campaign for the ensuing Lok Sabha elections with a massive show of strength on its 38th Foundation Day to be celebrated on Friday, a top party official said on Wednesday. Present on the occasion will be BJP President Amit Shah, Union Shipping Mi

The Supreme Court today said it will consider in detail the Centre's review petition against its March 20 judgment on the SC/ST Act but declined to keep in abeyance the directions passed by it to deal with the issues of arrest and sanction under the special law. The apex court said people who are

New Delhi [India], Apr. 03 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced an ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh for each of the families of 39 workers killed by ISIS in Iraq. The announcement comes after Congress MPs from Punjab staged a protest in Parliament demanding compensation for the workers

A joint application was moved in the Patiala House Court here on Monday by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to withdraw criminal defamation case against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders. Court will take up the matter tomorrow. Union Finance Minister Aru

New Delhi: Petrol price on Sunday hit a four-year high of Rs73.73 a litre while diesel rates touched an all-time high of Rs64.58 in Delhi, renewing calls for the government to cut excise tax rates. State-owned oil firms, which have been since June last year revising auto fuel prices daily, on Sun

NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board chief Waseem Rizvi has repeated his allegation that madrassas are creating are promoting hard line sentiments against Hindus and Shias. He also alleged that the Darul Uloom seminary in Deoband is hosting hard line foreign preachers. "The hardliner mentalit

Three persons, including two teachers of a convent school have been arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Delhi Police Crime Branch for their alleged role in leaking the class XII Central Board of Secondary Education economics paper. Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Alok