BENGALURU: The BJP today brought out a Bengaluru-specific 'charge sheet' against the ruling Congress in Karnataka and announced the launch of 'protect Bengaluru yatra' from tomorrow. Releasing the booklet carrying the "failures" of the Congress government, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said Be

Serial killer and rapist M Jaishankar, known as the dreaded 'Psycho Shankar', allegedly committed suicide by slitting his throat with a shaving blade at the Parappana Agrahara jail in Bengaluru. Kannada movie 'Psycho Shankra', released last year, was based on the life of the notorious killer Jais

After 71 Transfers in 34 Years, Haryana IAS Officer Retires Without 6 Months' Pay Haryana IAS officer Pradeep Kasni retires on Wednesday. (Image: News18) Known for his honesty, IAS officer Pradeep Kasni is retiring on Wednesday after a career spanning 34 years and 71 transfers. Kasni has not receiv

Gujarat assembly speaker Rajendra Trivedi on Wednesday suspended around 15 Congress MLAs for a day after they sat in the well and shouted slogans against the ruling BJP over VAT being charged on fuel by the state government. Besides these, another Congress MLA was suspended for two days by the Sp

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramaniam Swamy on Tuesday opined that veteran actress Sridevi was murdered, even as the forensic report rules out any kind of foul play in her death. Swamy also pointed a finger at the underworld terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, saying that we should take serio

Most investors have priced in Prime Minister Narendra Modi winning a second term in the 2019 elections. A change in expectations through this year could derail a rally that’s almost doubled the nation’s equity values since Modi took office four years ago. UBS Securities India Pvt. says, the optim

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday continued his tirade against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in poll-bound Karnataka and said Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi and Vijay Mallya managed to flee the country and the PM, who once described himself as the “chowkidar” of the nation, did not utter a word. “

NEW DELHI:  After the Rs. 11,400 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam involving celebrity designer Nirav Modi and his Mehul Choksi, another alleged banking fraud of nearly Rs. 390 crore linked to the government-run Oriental Bank of Commerce has surfaced, this time by a Delhi-based diamond jewellery

An officer of the Gujarat Police on Saturday claimed the Central Bureau of Investigation had framed him in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh alleged fake encounter case. A special CBI court had discharged Rajkumar Pandian (pictured above) in the case in 2016. The officer has an “unimpeachable” record, and w

The vehicle that killed nine schoolchildren (six girls and three boys) in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district on Saturday belonged to a BJP leader from Sitamarhi, police officials said. The BJP leader, Manoj Baitha, was reportedly inside the Bolero when the accident took place on NH 77 and escaped along wi

Controversial Islamic preacher from Kerala Meleveettil Muhammed Akbar, founder-director of Niche of Truth, was arrested from Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on Sunday in a case related to promoting enmity among communities in Kerala. Akbar, who was en route to Qatar from Melbourne, wa

Itanagar, Feb 24 (PTI) A mysterious object with Chinese writing on it has been found in Kamle district of Arunchal Pradesh, about 100 km inside the Indian territory, police said today. A few villagers stumbled upon a partly burnt white box, wrapped in a cloth-like material with Chinese writing on

NEW DELHI:  In a bid to provide relief to school students, the NCERT syllabus will be reduced by half from the 2019 academic session, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar has said. He said the school syllabus was more than that of BA and B.Com courses, and it needed to be reduced by half so that students

At least nine schoolchildren of a government middle school in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district were crushed to death by a speeding SUV on Saturday when they were about to cross National Highway 77 after school. Body parts and blood lay scattered across the busy road that connects Muzaffarpur to north

New Delhi: Students Islamic Organisation (SIO) of India, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, started its three-day long All India Conference at its New Delhi office on Friday. The event, based on the theme “Reclaiming Dignity, Designing Future”, was started after Nahas Mala, national president

Jaipur: A 25-year-old migrant worker from Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur district, who was allegedly lynched by a mob on February 3 on suspicion of being a child lifter, died at a hospital on Wednesday. When Mohammad Faisal Siddique was taking his friend Aslam Ansari’s two-year-old daughter to market to

New Delhi: A 23-feet-wide replica of the Moon using imagery from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter camera and created with the help of UK space agency will tour India this month. “Museum of the Moon” by British artist Luke Jerram will land at the British Council on February 23 and stationed at

HEMTABAD (WB): Two girls breached the security of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and climbed the podium from where she was addressing a public meeting in North Dinajpur district on Thursday and almost touched her feet. The two, who said they are siblings, crawled up the stairs to the podium and t