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

Bhatkallys News Bureau/ Ismail Zaorez Kolkata 31 March 2018: 19 year old, social media speaker Wali Rahmani is all set to become the 'Father of ten kids' on 01 April 2018, after the inauguration of his dream foundation 'Umeed' in Kolkata on Sunday. The foundation will adopt ten orphan kids and

Navjot Singh Sidhu, former cricketer and a minister in Punjab's Amarinder Singh government, has fallen in the net of the Income Tax (I-T) department which has seized two of his bank accounts for non-payment of taxes. The I-T department sealed his bank accounts as he had failed to present bills of

Union minister Babul Supriyo was prevented by police from entering his constituency, Asansol, where the situation remained tense on Thursday after violence over Ram Navami celebrations erupted earlier this week. Supriyo, who tried to enter the Railpar area in Paschim Bardhaman district, was stopp

NEW DELHI: The Delhi and Uttar Pradesh Police in a joint operation arrested four people from here for enabling cheating online in the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) examination. The accused identified as Ajay, Parma, Gaurav, Sonu, were arrested from Delhi's Gandhi Nagar area. The culprits us

NEW DELHI: A Delhi University student kidnapped a week ago was found murdered last night, the police said today. Ayush Nautiyal, 21, was kidnapped from his home in Dwarka in northwest Delhi. His kidnappers had demanded a ransom of Rs. 50 lakh. The police received a complaint on Thursday last, the

NEW DELHI: E-way bill, the electronic billing system, is all set to be rolled out from April 1 for inter-state movement of goods. The e-way bill is an online document that is generated under the GST system when goods of the value of more than Rs. 50,000 are shipped inter-state or intra-state. The el

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