NEW DELHI: At least 25 people including 18 school children were killed and 50 injured as a school bus was hit by a truck on Thursday in Etah district. The bus was ferrying students to Aliganj's JS Public School in Etah. Thirty six among the 50 injured are stated to be critical, sources said. Accor

The three suspected ISI agents, arrested by Bihar Police, were on Wednesday questioned by sleuths of RAW, NIA and Railway Police in connection with the November 20 Indore-Patna Express mishap in Kanpur that claimed 150 lives and other train accidents. The trio had provided some “positive lead” about

NEW DELHI: After two IPS officers, it was the turn of a senior IAS officer to get sacked on grounds of non-performance, in a rare action taken by the government in 'public interest'. K Narasimha, a 1991 batch IAS officer of Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre, was

One could be facetious and say that since no one killed the blackbucks, the poor antelopes must have somehow procured a gun (one with an expired licence) and shot themselves. Or we may say, as some cracked, the blackbuck should've been more careful. But futile jokes and outrage are a poor substitute

NAGPUR: Thousands of Congress party workers and leaders protested in front of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) offices in Nagpur and Chhattisgarh capital Raipur on Wednesday against the demonetisation. The protest in Nagpur was led by former Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, while the

NEW DELHI -- As per the recent announcement, Railway Minister has lifted the restrictions on issuing the short distance tickets for the Sleeper and Ac coaches of the long distance trains. Earlier, short distance passengers are not allowed to get the reservation in Mail and the Express trains fo

Chandigarh: Punjab police tonight seized 160 kgs of gold worth approximately Rs 21 crore from a vehicle in Mohali. The raw gold was recovered from the vehicle during a special checking drive at a checkpost set up in the wake of Punjab assembly polls in Bakharpur Chowk under Sohana police station

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday warned that the problem of air pollution was very serious and solutions need to be found urgently, rather than in years. “This pollution problem is very serious. If you talk for years for a solution, then it is a problem,” a bench of Justices M B Lokur an

Panaji: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh today said BJP would find it difficult to win the upcoming Goa elections without RSS, from where the party’s “foot soldiers” come. “I was shown a video clip wherein (RSS rebel leader Subhash) Velingkar used such words against BJP, which I can’t even

Patna: Pakistan’s ISI may be behind the derailment of the Indore-Patna Express train near Kanpur that claimed 140 lives and the failed attempt last year to blow up goods and passenger trains near Ghorasahan station in Bihar, police said on Tuesday. East Champaran Superintendent of Police Jitend

New Delhi: Mohammed Irfan, an alleged aide of terror outfit ISIS, was today arrested by NIA officials from Hyderabad. Irfan was arrested for his role in the ISIS terror conspiracy module, exposed in the searches in Hyderabad city on June 29, 2016, a press release issued by the NIA said. The in

New Delhi: A Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Tuesday charged Indrani Mukerjea, her husband Peter Mukerjea and her ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna with murder and criminal conspiracy in the Sheena Bora murder case. The trial of all the convicts will take place on February 1. “T

NEW DELHI: The selection of the next chief of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) may not be restricted to the four batches of police service officers under consideration if the search committee does not find a compelling choice. The search panel that includes PM Narendra Modi, Chief Justice of

New Delhi: Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, who has joined the Congress, on Monday deftly side-stepped questions on his possible chief ministerial candidature for Punjab. “Gehu khet mai, beta pet mai, aur tum vivah ki phikar kar rahe ho (Wheat is in the fields, the child is in th

NDTV| Jan 16,2017 NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, recognised as the leader of the Samajwadi Party and granted its cycle symbol by the Election Commission today, will now swiftly move to finalise candidates in the next two days for the Uttar Pradesh elections, a senior lead

NDTV | Jan 16,2017 NEW DELHI: Starting tomorrow, you can pull out 10,000 per day from an ATM, though a weekly limit of 24,000 per bank account remains unchanged. The RBI has increased the daily limit for ATM withdrawals from Rs. 4,500 which has been in place for a few weeks now. From current accoun

Asaduddin owaisi tweet on Saudi Arabia increased hajj quota, Owaisi has now demanded that the subsidy given to Muslim devotees be allotted for girls’ education. Through a tweet, Owaisi – a prominent Muslim leader and AIMIM’s Hyderabad MP – had welcomed the SA government’s decision and expressing

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has censured BJP’s Sakshi Maharaj over his population control remark. The Commission had earlier issued a notice to the BJP MP asking why action should not be taken against him for his controversial statement. The EC in the notice said prima facie the MP from Un