FARIDABAD: The family of Junaid Khan, 17, who was lynched to death by a mob on a Mathura-bound train, alleged people of neighbouring village and fellow villagers exerting pressure on them to opt for ‘out-of-court settlement’. The 30-year-old prime accused, Naresh Kumar has “confessed” to having s

Navsari: Jignesh Mevani, the Gujarat Dalit leader, met Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday and claimed that the party had assured him of including “more than 90 percent” of his demands in its Assembly election manifesto. Mevani all but declared open support for the Congress after his m

New Delhi: The Apex Court yesterday has declined from passing any interim stay order Aadhar linking with bank accounts and sim numbers directing the Banks and telecom services to provide its customers with deadlines for the linking of Aadhar. It stated that the final hearing in all pleas related

New Delhi: A day after Nirbhaya’s mother revealed that it was Congress President Rahul Gandhi who gave moral support to her son, Nirbhaya’s brother and the rest of her family, the Delhi gangrape victim’s father has also come out to speak about the matter. Nirbhaya’s father stated that while his f

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought the government’s response on four petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar Act and linking of bank accounts and mobile numbers with the 12-digit biometric identification number. The apex court did not pass any interim order in

NEW DELHI: India will “very soon” make a request to Malaysia for the extradition of Zakir Naik, charged by the NIA for “radicalising” youth, the external affairs ministry said on Friday, amidst reports that the Islamic preacher was there after being given permanent residency. “Any formal request

Madurai: A youth landed in trouble after he posted abusive comments against PM Modi on Facebook. According to the news published in TOI, he is allegedly a fan of actor Vijay and the incident reportedly occurred due to standoff between actor’s fan and BJP workers of Tamil Nadu. It may be mentio

Chandigarh: Haryana Additional Advocate General Naveen Kaushik resigned on Wednesday after the judge in the Junaid Khan murder case alleged that he was seen assisting one of the counsels of a man allegedly involved in the killing. He was asked to resign after the accusation. However, Kaushik in h

NEW DELHI:  A man who masqueraded as a top official in the Prime Minister's Office has been arrested by the Delhi Police. Kanhaiya Kumar had visiting cards with the Prime Minister's room number on them but the phone number was wrong, and that's how he was caught. The police say he carried visitin

Lucknow: Amid the age-old debate over the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi site, a man named Yakub Habeebuddin Tucy, who claims to be a descendent of Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, has laid claims on the controversial site in Ayodhya. Claiming himself to be a sixth generation descendant of the las

Strongly pitching for decriminalisation of politics, the Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to constitute special courts on lines of fast track court for speedy disposal of cases pending against MPs and MLAs. The apex court told the government that decriminalisation of politics has to be do

The judge of the trial court hearing the Junaid Khan murder case said that a senior government lawyer was helping the main accused charged with the murder of the 15-year-old boy on board a Delhi-Mathura train on June 22 and has asked the Haryana government, the advocate general’s office and the bar

Ayodhya (Uttar Pradesh) [India]: The Babri Masjid Action Committee on Tuesday lashed out at former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ram Vilas Vedanti for rejecting Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s mediation in Ayodhya dispute. Vedanti on Monday targeted the Art of Living founder over his initiative to media

New Delhi: Tushar Gandhi, the great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, today moved the Supreme Court opposing a plea seeking reopening of the 70-year-old assassination case of the Mahatma. A bench of Justices S A Bobde and M M Shantanagoudar questioned the locus of Tushar Gandhi in the case. Senior a

New Delhi [India]: The Supreme Court will on Monday hear a plea filed by Varun Thakur, father of Pradyuman Thakur who was found dead in a mysterious condition in Gurugram’s Ryan International School. On October 30, parents of Pradyuman organised a candle light march at the Ramlila Maidan in the n

Allahabad: In a gesture of ‘communal harmony’, volunteers belonging to both Hindu and Muslim communities united on Saturday to clean Allahabad ghats after they were left with heaps of trash by devotees on Friday. Located on river Yamuna, major ghats such as Balua ghat and Gau ghat were cleaned by

Terming note ban as foolish step and GST design faulty, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram today said both the decisions of the government have derailed the economy. The Centre should have admitted that it had made a mistake to scrap high value currency notes last year, the former finance minis

A 39-year-old IPS officer, who came into the limelight last year for allegedly slapping a BJP worker in Kota over his misbehavior, died on Sunday while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Jaipur. Devashish Deo, a 2013-batch officer, was posted as deputy director at the Rajasthan Police