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

A 15-year-old teenager from West Midnapore district could be the first victim of the infamous Blue Whale game in Bengal. Mystery surrounds the alleged suicide of Ankan Dey, a class 10 student in Anandapur town whose body was recovered from the bathroom of his house on Saturday. According to famil

New Delhi: The law itself allows the cattle slaughter for food and religious purposes. If slaughtering cattle for food or religious sacrifice is allowed under the Prevention of Cruelty Act, then why did the government ban the cattle sale for these purposes in the new livestock market rules, the Supr

Jaipur: Ater removing dignitaries from the Rajasthan’s school textbooks, Rajasthan government removed the birthday of the Father of the Nation from their holidays’ list. For them, celebrating Gandhi Jayanti is not important enough for the government of Rajasthan. The state universities will remain w

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday granted three months time to authorities to complete translation of historic documents related to the several decades old Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The apex court passed the order after the Sunni Waqf Board informed it that the translation of his

Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala’s son Vikas and his friend Ashish Kumar, who are accused of chasing and stalking Varnika Kundu, the daughter of a senior IAS officer in a bid to kidnap her, were sent to judicial custody till August 25 on Saturday. Earlier, both the accused had been sent to the polic

New Delhi: Rajya Sabha members from the Janata Dal United today removed Sharad Yadav, who opposed the party’s decision to ally with the BJP in Bihar, as their leader in the House and replaced him with RCP Singh, a senior party leader said. The MPs met Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu to hand

A local court Thursday sent Vikas Barala, son of Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala, and Vikas’s friend Ashish Kumar to police custody for two days. Both will again be produced in court on August 12. Vikas and Ashish are facing charges of stalking, wrongful restraint and abduction attempt on Haryana I

NEW DELHI: In a surprise move unmindful of the huge controversy it had sparked, the Maharashtra government has moved the Supreme Court seeking revival of a provision of law that made it an offence to carry or keep beef at home in the state. More than a year ago, the Bombay high court had doused p