NEW DELHI: Blasting Pakistan for giving political legitimacy to terror mastermind Hafiz Saeed, home minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said security forces can cross over the Line of Control, if needed, to protect country's territorial integrity. Making it clear that Jammu and Kashmir will remain

Kolkata: In a tragic incident, a meritorious 16-year-old Class 10 boy in West Bengal’s Birbhum died on Thursday night after being treated by an air-condition mechanic impersonating as a doctor in a critical care ambulance on way to hospital. The quack Sheikh Sarfarajuddin, who had no medical expe

In another case of gross negligence, students of the Kasturba Gandhi School in Uttar Pradesh’s Etah fell prey to food poisoning on Friday. What makes the case shocking was that the food poisoning was caused due to consumption of mid-day meal at the school. More than 40 students of the school have be

AMARAVATI: Andhra Pradesh chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, whose TDP pulled out of BJP-led NDA on Friday, said during the last four years, the Narendra Modi government never cared about the problems faced by the state and did injustice to it in all the union budgets. Addressing the the state

Asha Devi, the mother of the December 2012 gangrape victim, on Friday condemned the ‘good physique’ remark made by HT Sangliana and said it would have been better had the former Director General of Karnataka Police spoken about their struggle rather than making a personal remark. “It would ha

NEW DELHI: Opposition members tore papers and threw them around in the Lok Sabha on Thursday as relentless protests by them and NDA partner TDP disrupted proceedings in both Houses of Parliament for the ninth straight day, but the government managed to get two bills passed without debate amid the di

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Assembly today unanimously passed a bill which provides for death penalty to those found guilty of raping girls aged 12 years or less. After Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, Haryana has become the third state where the assembly has approved the provision of capital punishment

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