New Delhi: Justice Dipak Misra, former chief justice of Patna and Delhi high courts, was on Tuesday appointed as the next chief justice of India. Justice Misra has been appointed as the next Chief Justice of India on the basis of seniority. His tenure is expected to continue for 14 months, till O

While invalidating the votes of two Congress MLAs in the Gujarat Rajya Sabha polls, the Congress cited the June 2016 Haryana Rajya Sabha elections in which, it said, the vote of one of its MLAs was rejected as the ballot paper had been shown to unauthorised persons. On Tuesday, one after the othe

Lucknow: The Aam Adam Party (AAP) on Tuesday alleged that the Lucknow municipal corporation was victimising its cadres at the behest of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state. AAP district spokesman Mahendra Pratap Singh said as they expose various misdeeds of the Uttar Pradesh

New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea to make yoga compulsory in schools from class 1 to 8 across the country. The Public Interest litigation (PIL) was filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ashwini Upadhyay, who moved the apex court seeking to make yoga compulsory from

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today asked the Maharashtra government to file a reply to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking preventive action against cow vigilante groups ahead of next month’s Eid-ul-Adha. City resident Shadaab Patel filed the PIL expressing fear that cow vigilante groups

AHMEDABAD: In Gujarat, the voting for the crucial Rajya Sabha elections on three seats would be held from 9a.m. to 4p.m. on Tuesday. The counting will be held from 5 p.m., an hour after the end of polling. Gujarat Assembly Secretary D M Patel, who is also the returning officer for the Rajya Sa

SRINAGAR: A major infiltration bid has been prevented in Jammu and Kashmir's Machil Sector today. Five infiltrators were killed by security forces along the Line of Control when they were trying to cross over into the Machil. "A major infiltration bid was foiled today in the Machil sector by aler

Tirupati : Vice president-elect M. Venkaiah Naidu on Monday said he will uphold the dignity and decorum of the vice presidential institution, as his appointment speaks the beauty of the Indian parliamentary democracy. After offering prayers to Lord Venkateswara here, the Vice President-elect said

LUCKNOW: A Bangladesh national, who investigators say was recruiting young men for terror activities and providing them with logistical support, was arrested today from Muzaffarnagar in western Uttar Pradesh. The man, identified as Abdullah, is suspected to be linked to the Ansarullah Bangla Team --

The Ahmednagar police detained around 20 people on Saturday in connection with an alleged attack on `gau rakshaks’ (cow protectors) in Shrigonda (100-km from Pune) earlier on Saturday evening. Seven gau rakshaks were severely injured and were admitted to a hospital following the attack. Police

Mumbai [India]: Superstar Aamir Khan and his director wife, Kiran Rao are down with swine flu. The Dangal actor who will be seen next in his upcoming flick ‘Secret Superstar’ has been tested positive for Swine flu. Khan confirmed the news at the Paani Foundation’s Satyamev Jayate Water Cup Awa

New Delhi : Air India Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) has passed an order to recover unauthorised payments made to carrier’s employees. The order paves the way to recover money from the salary of carrier’s Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO), who has been charged of misusing her position and mistr

Ahmedabad: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) youth wing leader was arrested on Saturday in connection with the attack on Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi’s car when he was visiting north Gujarat’s flood-affected Banaskantha district on Friday. The action comes after 18 hours of night-long dharna

Kolkata: The Mamata Banerjee government has decided to sanction maternity leave for a maximum period of 180 days for all categories of female contractual employees engaged directly by the state government. In a notification issued by the West Bengal government Finance (Audit) department, it was d

Thiruvananthapuram: Union Minister Arun Jaitley will visit the house of slain RSS functionary Rajesh, hacked to death by a gang near here last week, on August 6. Jaitley would also visit the houses of BJP ward councillors, which were attacked allegedly by CPI(M) activists in various parts of Thir

New Delhi: As per the data collected through the Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE), only 62.81% schools in the country have electricity connections, minister of state for HRD on Thursday informed the Rajya Sabha. According to a report by Hindustan Times, Jharkhand is at

Srinagar: The nine-minute long conversation between the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Abu Dujana alias Hafiz and Indian Army officer before he was killed along with another militant in an encounter by security forces in J&K Pulwama district was released. Abu Dujana had previously escaped se

Lucknow: A CBI probe into the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission results since 2012 was recommended by the Uttar Pradesh government. “A letter recommending a CBI probe into all results declared by the UPPSC from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2017 was sent to the central government today,” state