Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday announced that all illegal slaughter houses in the state will be shut down. Madhya Pradesh becomes the third BJP-ruled state after Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to ban illegal slaughterhouses. Chouhan made the announcement at a religiou

NEW DELHI:  The Supreme Court will today pronounce its verdict on a plea by the CBI opposing the dropping of charges against Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav by the Jharkhand High Court in the fodder scam case. In 2014, the Jharkhand High Court had given relief to the former Bihar Chi

New Delhi:The Delhi unit of BJP today demanded resignation of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has been accused by AAP MLA and sacked minister Kapil Mishra of taking Rs 2 crore illegal cash, on moral grounds. Manoj Tiwari, the city unit chief of the BJP, said Kejriwal should step down if he

GREATER NOIDA: Two days after a farmer and his cousin returning home with a cow and a calf were thrashed by a group of men in Greater Noida, two of the vigilantes accused of the crime have been arrested. While Gaurav (26), son of Vedprakash, was arrested from Jewar, Mahesh (45), son of Mamraj, was a

Sri Lanka will deploy nearly 6,000 police officers to provide special security for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other related events during his visit to the country next week to attend the UN Vesak festival, a top police official has said.The deployment includes ordinary police officers, the

JAMMU: A 12-year-old boy from Pakistan- occupied Kashmir has been arrested by the Army after he crossed over into the Indian territory along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, an Army official said on Saturday. Army strongly suspects that he was sent by the Pakistan Army

Around 475 girl students were hospitalised on Saturday after inhaling poisonous fumes that spread due to chemical leak at a container depot near two schools in southeast Delhi's Tughlaqabad area. Most students were discharged after a few hours, while four of them were kept under observation in th

The Supreme Court on Friday sought response from the NIA and Maharashtra on a plea of accused Shrikant Purohit, seeking bail in a case pertaining to the 2008 Malegaon blast. A bench of Justices RK Agrawal and AM Sapre issued notice to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Maharashtra go

MUMBAI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), which operates a weekly flight between Mumbai and Karachi, will suspend its service from May 11. The national flag carrier of Pakistan operates the flight on every Thursday. "Pakistan International Airlines, in a communication to authorities conce

“She was an object for their enjoyment... for their gross, sadistic pleasures... for the devilish manner in which they played with her dignity and identity.” These were the final words with which Justice Dipak Misra concluded the pronouncement of the Supreme Court judgment confirming the death pe

In the tenure of PM Vajpayee, Daulat was an advisor on Kashmir. He was a special intelligence officer who served in Kashmir in 1980’s. Former Research & Analysis Wing chief A S Daulat’s association with Kashmir has been over three decades. In an interview, published by Indian express, regardi

Tiruvarur : The Tamil Nadu police has seized a powerful bomb from a lorry ferrying liquor bottles for the state-run alcohol shops at nearby Vilamal today and yesterday the two occupants of the vehicle. The police said the seizure was effected during a routine check up. The lorry was proceeding

New Delhi: Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday discussed facilities for Haj pilgrims from India with Saudi Arabian Ambassador Saud Mohammed Al Sati. Over 1.7 lakh people will go to Haj pilgrimage this year from India including over 1.25 lakh through the Haj Committee of

New Delhi: Earlier in the day, Pakistani army killed two Indian soldiers and mutilated their bodies, whose retaliation by Indian Army has been done tonight by killing seven Pakistani soldiers and destroying 2 bunkers. According to the reports, the bunkers were destroyed in Kirpan and Pimple posts

Rampur (UP): Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan on Monday lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying Muslims are being troubled in the country and he should be ready for the consequences if the community approached the UN. “Muslims are being harassed in India and if the community approached

A Kerala resident who along with 21 others fled to Afghanistan last year to join the Islamic State (IS), was killed "during battle with American forces," a senior NIA official said. Bestin Vincent, a resident of Palakkad, who converted to Islam and assumed the identity of Yahya had escaped to Afg

Government officials said on Saturday they are almost certain that a man who turned up at the Delhi airport a day earlier and identified himself as a hit man of Pakistan’s ISI is not a spy but had cooked up the story to gain asylum in India. Ahmed Mohammed, 38, arrived on a Dubai-Kathmandu Air In

The Allahabad High Court has suspended Lucknow’s Additional District Judge Om Prakash Mishra, who had granted bail to former UP minister Gayatri Prajapati and his two aides on April 25 in a case where a woman was allegedly gangraped and an attempt was made to molest her minor daughter. A departmenta