New Delhi: A Jet Airways flight with 161 people on board veered off the runway at Dabolim airport in Goa while aligning for take off to Mumbai early today, with 15 passengers suffering “minor” injuries during evacuation. The incident took place at around 5 AM. Flight 9W 2374 which had arrived fro

Agence France Presse | Published — Tuesday 27 December 2016 AHMEDABAD: A low-caste pregnant woman and her husband were beaten with sticks after refusing to allow a group of higher-caste men to graze cattle on their farmland in India, police said Tuesday. The alleged attack in western Gujarat state

Sabarimala (Kerala) [India]: At least 17 pilgrims were injured, one of them critically, following a stampede at the Sabarimala temple in Kerala on Sunday. All the injured have been rushed to a nearby hospital for immediate treatment. There was extra rush at the popular temple because of the idol

NEW DELHI: With India looking at full exploitation of its rights under the Indus Waters Treaty+ (IWT) with Pakistan, a high-level inter-ministerial task force held its first meeting on Friday, focussing on bringing Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir on board for speeding up work on the ground through be

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of snatching money from the poor in the garb of “surgical strike on black money’’ through demonetisation. He claimed the move is aimed “for the benefit of 1 per cent thieves close to Modi, who own 60 per cent of th

Jamaat-Ul Mujahideen Bangladesh activist Mohammed Masiuddin alias Abu Musa has been questioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Kolkata to probe a possible conspiracy being hatched by his Syria-based handler Sultan Abdul Kadir Armar to target American assets and nationals. This is

NEW DELHI: A 20-year-old girl, who was on a job search, was allegedly raped in a car in South Delhi’s Moti Bagh area. The victim was raped after she was lured into the car by the driver on the pretext of dropping her at her destination, in the vehicle, which apparently had a free run for hours in Lu

Petrol price was hiked by Rs 2.21 a litre and diesel by Rs. 1.79 per litre, excluding local levies, on Friday. The revised rates will take effect from midnight. Now, petrol in Delhi will cost Rs. 68.94 per litre from midnight as against Rs. 66.10 currently, said Indian Oil Corp, the nation’s lar

Days after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said he would shortly release details of corruption involving the Prime Minister, he led a party delegation to meet Narendra Modi with a demand to waive all farm loans. Emerging from the meeting, Mr. Gandhi told journalists, "We met the Prime Minist

The Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY), a last-resort tax amnesty scheme that comes into effect from December 17, will allow assessees to disclose previously unaccounted and undeclared income under its ambit till March 31, 2017. The PMGKY permits voluntary declarations of previously undis

On Friday, the Supreme Court refused to interfere with Centre's order on Demonetisation. Calling the order as a 'matters of fiscal policies,' the court also ordered all high courts to put a stay on any proceedings regarding demonetisation and transfer the cases to the SC. "We are not inclined to gra

Mumbai: A Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on Thursday ordered a magisterial probe into the alleged attack on 2006 Malegaon blast accused Manohar Narwariya in judicial custody. The court, which has ordered an inquiry against four jail officers A.S. Pansare, H.S. Mint, Sachin Zinz

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a plea by an IAF personnel seeking to grow a beard and said that the IAF’s policies on personal appearance were not intended to discriminate against religious beliefs. “Regulation and policies in regard to personal appearances are not intended to

I have information about the Prime Minister that will puncture his balloon, says Congress leader Days after asserting that there would be an “earthquake” if he spoke on demonetisation in Parliament, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said he had detailed information about “person

NEW DELHI: Minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju found himself in the midst of a political controversy with Congress demanding his resignation over allegations that he intervened on behalf of a contractor allegedly related to him for payments in a power project in Arunachal Pradesh. Congress sa

Chennai:Eighteen people were killed in six districts of Tamil Nadu in rain-related incidents linked to Cyclone Vardah that crossed the coast, as Chief Minister O Panneerselvam held a meeting of top officials on Tuesday to speed up work to ensure return of normalcy in storm-hit regions. The govern

Hyderabad: A special court on Tuesday held five accused guilty in the 2013 twin bomb blasts case. Pronouncing the judgement, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) special court fixed December 18 for announcing the quantum of punishment for the five operatives of Indian Mujahideen. The five a

New Delhi: A child born out of rape is entitled to compensation, independent of any such relief granted to the mother, the Delhi High Court has ruled. The verdict to this effect, in which a man has been sent to jail for his entire “natural life” for raping his minor step-daughter, was delivered a