New Delhi : With the Supreme Court granting bail to 2008 Malegaon blast accused Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Monday said that it was expected as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government is trying to protect all the accused connected with th

New Delhi: The government has decided to proffer 40 per cent reservation for girls at 100 Navodaya-type schools and five higher education institutes it plans to set up for minority community students, Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has said. The Minister of State for Minority Affairs said the

There would be a bank strike on August 22. Over 10 lakh bankers will go on strike on August 22 as talks between the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) on one side and Indian Banks' Association, chief labour commissioner and the Department of Financial Services (DFS) failed on Friday. A notice of

New Delhi : Delhi’s Patiala House Court on Saturday pulled up the Delhi police for delaying the de-sealing of the hotel suite in which Sunanda Pushkar was found dead. They have also asked the Police as to why has it taken two months to inform the hotel that they would need more time. On other

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah will meet chief ministers and deputy chief ministers of all party ruled states on Monday to take stock of development and social welfare work being done. Besides 13 chief ministers and six deputy chief ministers, a few cabinet ministers

Pulling up private schools that have been served show-cause notices for overcharging students, the Delhi government has warned it will take over 449 of them if they do not refund the extra fees within 2 weeks. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in a press conference in nearly four months, said

Raipur: A local BJP leader was arrested on Friday after 300 cows died allegedly of starvation and lack of medicines in the government-aided gaushala in Durg district of Chhattisgarh. The Chhattisgarh Rajya Gau Sewa Aayog, which lodged an FIR with the police after its team visited the cow shelter

New Delhi: In pursuance of a Supreme Court order, the NIA on Friday registered an FIR to probe the conversion of a young Hindu woman from Kerala to Islam and her subsequent marriage to a Muslim man in 2016, an official said. The NIA probe will be supervised by retired apex court Justice R.V. Rave

New Delhi:The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday said that Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is making statements against the saffron outfit and its ideologue Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) because he is not able to digest the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. BJP leader GVL N

Stepping up his attack against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi claimed the government has not been able to keep its promises and said the public wants to see a ‘sach Bharat’. “Modi-ji says he wants to create a Swachch Bharat but we want Sach Bharat. Wherever he goe

New Delhi: The government has banned exports of gold jewellery, medallions and other articles above 22- carat purity in a bid to check round tripping of the precious metal. In a notification, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has said certain provisions of the foreign trade policy (

New Delhi: Two senior Gujarat Police officers, NK Amin and TA Barot, who have been accused in encounter killing cases, on Thursday undertook before the Supreme Court that they will demit their posts during the day. Amin, who retired in August 2016 as Superintendent of Police (SP), has been re-app

The Supreme Court today asked the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to probe the marriage of a Muslim man to a Hindu woman converted to Islam - now referred to as the Kerala 'love jihad' case - and find out if there is an Islamic State (ISIS) angle to it. "Everyone wants a fair probe. We can ap

NEW DELHI: Welcoming the Government of India’s direction to internet majors Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Microsoft and Yahoo to immediately remove links of the dangerous online game Blue Whale Challenge, cyber experts on Wednesday said that the government need to come up with more innovati

Ahmedabad: A Dalit man and his mother were thrashed allegedly by a group of 15 ‘upper caste’ men for skinning a dead cow near a crematorium at a village in Anand district of Gujarat, instead of the place where cattle are disposed of, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place almost a year a

The Congress on Monday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to apologise to the country in his Independence Day address for the death of over 60 children at a State-run hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur district, from where sitting Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has been elected five times. The

NEW DELHI: Resident doctors of AIIMS condemned the sacking of paediatrician Dr Kafeel Khan on Monday, alleging that he had been made a “scapegoat” in the tragic incident in which 30 children had died within a span of 48 hours. Dr Ahmad, who was the nodal officer at the state-run hospital’s paedia

Uttar Pradesh [India]: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to the Uttar Pradesh Government and sought a detailed report in the matter of deaths of more than 60 children in the Baba Raghav Das Medical College, Gorakhpur. The Commission has also asked the government for