New Delhi [India]: After Sunanda Pushkar’s son questioned Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy’s locus standi in filing a plea in his mother’s death case, the latter on Saturday said the court would take the decision regarding it. “He (Shiv Menon) doesn’t want me to proceed with

Lucknow: In the first two months of the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, 803 incidents of rape and 729 of murder were reported, the state Assembly was informed Tuesday. “Between March 15 and May 9, 803 rapes, 729 murders, 799 loots, 2,682 kidnappings and 60 dacoities took place,” pa

The Supreme Court on Friday said it will take a decision on the early hearing of a batch of petitions including cross-appeals in the Ram Temple-Babri Masjid land dispute case. The SC bench said this when BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, who is one of the petitioners, mentioned the matter for urgent lis

Hazaribag: A 24-year-old BSF jawan committed suicide at Meru in Hazaribag district today, police said. Mithilesh Kumar, a resident of Bhojpur district in Bihar was undergoing training at the BSF training centre at Meru, approximately 10 km from Hazaribag. He hanged himself today morning, the p

Hyderabad: The currency notes of Rs. 2000 denomination have been disappearing not only from the market but also from the banks. Reserve Bank of India has been careful in maintaining secrecy in the release of these currency notes. Mr. Niraj Viyas, Chief Operating Officer of RBI told that after the

New Delhi : A Delhi court on Thursday granted bail to two people accused of hijacking an Air India plane in 1981. The plane, carrying 111 passengers and six crew members on board, was hijacked to Lahore on its way from New Delhi to Srinagar. Two accused, Satnam Singh and Tajender Pal Singh,

New Delhi: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati’s resignation from the Rajya Sabha was accepted on Thursday by chairman Hamid Ansari, a senior official of the Upper House said. The 61-year-old had submitted a fresh resignation letter as per the prescribed format, tendering a hand-written

NEW DELHI: Election Commission of India on Thursday declared BJP-led NDA candidate Ram Nath Kovind as the 14th President of India. The former governor of Bihar secured a massive margin over his United Progressive Alliance (UPA) rival Meira Kumar in a straight fight. n an electoral college of 4

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday hit out at the government, saying that it was not willing to discuss farmers’ issues in Parliament and that its decision to implement the GST was taken in a haste. Wielding a bow and arrow at ‘Kisaan Aakrosh Rally’ in Basnwara, he slammed the BJP

Bareilly: A trial court in Bareilly took as many as 29 years to sentence two men to five years in jail for stealing Rs 370 from a man, says a Times of India report. Besides sentencing the accused, the court of the additional district and sessions judge in Bareilly also imposed a fine of Rs 10,0

Mumbai: The Indian passport of Zakir Naik, who is wanted in connection with his role in a terror case, was on Tuesday revoked on the NIA’s request, an official statement said here. “The Regional Passport Office, Mumbai, has revoked the Indian passport of Dr Zakir Abdul Karim Naik, a resident of B

NEW DELHI: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati resigned from the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, hours after she had threatened to quit the Upper House for "not being allowed to speak" about atrocities against Dalits and minorities. "I was speaking about the atrocities against Dalits, since I belo

New Delhi: Reaching out to parties across the political divide, NDA vice presidential candidate M Venkaiah Naidu today said he no longer belonged to the BJP and would strengthen democratic institutions if elected. Naidu, who was flanked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party veteran L K Advani

NEW DELHI: Social activist Shabnam Hashmi approached the Delhi Police alleging that a man who claimed to be a police official has threatened to kill her in an “encounter”. She also released an audio clip where a man who called her identified himself as Sub- Inspector Sandeep Malik from the Lajp

The Defence Experts on Monday said that Pakistan was trying to solve the Kulbhushan Jadhav case on its own due to lack of evidences against former Indian Naval officer. Jadhav has been awarded death sentence by a Pakistani military court on the charges of espionage. In a major blow to Pakistan, the

To rein in terrorism in Kashmir, the Shiv Sena has urged the Narendra Modi-led Union government to scrap Article 370 that gives special status to the state within eight days and show that Kashmir is an integral part of India. In an editorial in the Sena’s mouthpiece, Saamana, the party said while

New Delhi: The joint Opposition candidate for the post of vice-president Gopalkrishna Gandhi is likely to file his nomination papers on Tuesday, the last date for doing so, in the presence of top Congress leaders including Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. Sources said Gopalkrishna Gandhi, whose c

New Delhi: Seeking to blunt the opposition attack over cow vigilantism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today sought to put the onus for checking such “hooliganism” on state governments, insisting that they take “stringent action” against them. The prime minister also sought the support of oppositio