Kannur: An RSS office at Payyannur here was tonight attacked allegedly by CPI-M workers. No one was inside it at the time of the incident, police said. Only a forensic examination will reveal if the office was set on fire or a petrol bomb was hurled. It has suffered some damage, they said. BJP

New Delhi: Dismissing media reports circulating about taxes levied on free food supplied in anna kshetras run by religious institutions under the Goods and Services Tax (GST), the Finance Ministry clarified that such food will not attract any charges. In a notification issues on Tuesday, the Mini

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday denied that India was rejecting medical visa applications of Pakistanis and asked Pakistan's top diplomat Sartaj Aziz to respond to her letter seeking travel permission for the mother of alleged Indian spy Kulbushan Jadhav who is on a death row in th

Panaji: Notices have been issued to the Civil Aviation Ministry and others on a petition over an alleged public meeting organised by BJP President Amit Shah at a restricted part of Goa airport. Social activist Aires Rodrigues on July 7 filed a petition before the Bombay High Court against the meetin

NEW DELHI: National carrier Air India has decided to stop serving non-vegetarian meals to economy class passengers on domestic flights in order to cut costs. “Air India has taken a conscious decision not to have non-vegetarian meal in economy class on its domestic flights to reduce wastage and co

New Delhi [India]: Revenue Secretary Dr. Hasmukh Adhia on Friday clarified that no Goods and Service Tax (GST) on credit card bills before June 30 would be generated, even if payment due date is in July. Adhia clarified that if the bill, be it a credit card or a Mobile/Telephone bill, is generate

BJP MLA NVSS Prabhakar has appealed Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) to support NDA candidate Ramnath Kovind in the Presidential elections. Addressing a press conference at Telangana BJP headquarters at Nampally on Friday, Prabhakar said Narendra Modi Government has been implementing various

NEW DELHI: Former Indian cricket team player Mohammad Kaif on Friday tweeted on blasphemous post of Facebook on the communal rioting taking place violence in West Bengal’s 24 Parganas districts. Kaif took to twitter urging people to not malign religion by chipping in violent activities. Kaif

Jharkhand, June 24, 2017 :In another case of police brutality against Muslims, a 19-year-old Muslim boy in Jharkhand was dragged out of his house and shot dead by the local police. The incident took place in Piperwar town of Chatra district. According the family of Mohammad Salman, Policemen

The Army has been given a free hand to deal with any attempt by Pakistani troops to disturb peace in the country, said Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday. Addressing a conclave of booth-level office-bearers of the Assembly constituencies within the Hamirpur Lok Sabha seat, he warned the neighb

New Delhi: A butterfly park in Asola Bhatti Wild Life Sanctuary in south Delhi was today dedicated to the public on the World Environment Day. Delhi Environment Minister Imran Hussain and Labour Minister Gopal Rai inaugurated the park spread over 3-acre of land with 60 varieties of native trees,

New Delhi: Jet Airways and IndiGo today said their flights to Doha are operating as per schedule, amid some Arab states severing their diplomatic ties with Qatar — a development that could also result in airspace restrictions over the Gulf region. In a major diplomatic crisis in the Arab region,

The Indian Penal Code (IPC) holds that the death of a person caused in a ‘sudden fight’ is not murder. A Bench of Justices A.K. Sikri and R.K. Agrawal interpreted this exception to murder in a recent judgement, noting that unlike murder, death caused in a ‘sudden fight’ meant that blows were exch

The CBI has busted a racket in fixing postings and transfers of civilian officials working with the Army. The agency has arrested Lieutenant Colonel Ranganathan Suvramani Moni and a middleman Gaurav Kohli in connection with the racket. Among those named in the FIR are two other Army officers — Pu

Bihar’s Intermediate Board topper in the Humanities stream, Ganesh Kumar, was arrested late on Friday after the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) cancelled his results. Ganesh Kumar had got 82.6% in the examination. “Bihar Intermediate topper in Arts stream Ganesh Kumar’s result has been canc

Federal anti-terrorism officials searched the homes and offices of separatist leaders in Kashmir on Saturday as part of an investigation into whether money from Pakistan was being used to fund violent street protests against the Indian government. In what is the first such crackdown on financing

New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said the Islamic State (IS) has failed to make its base in India, which has the second largest Muslim population in the world. “India is the second country with the highest number of Muslims. Despite having that large a Muslim population, the IS ha

Islamabad: India has issued a medical visa to a two-and-a-half-month-old baby from Pakistan, suffering from a heart disease, after his father sought intervention of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. Swaraj’s intervention came after the infant’s father brought the matter to her notice on Tw