HYDERABAD: Syed Zaker Raheem, a Hyderabad man who was allegedly involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Hindu right-wing leaders, has been given permanent exit from Saudi Arabia and was brought to Hyderabad on Friday. According to reports, Raheem was among those who organised meetings of Indian M

CHENNAI:  Tamil Nadu has gotten much closer to ending a ban on the bull-taming sport of Jallikattu: an executive order or ordinance by the state which allows Jallikattu has been cleared by the centre and sent to President Pranab Mukherjee for his assent. Thousands of protestors gathered at Chen

Kolkata: Demanding solution to the demonetisation problems and recovery of bad loans, bank employees’ and officers’ unions on Friday called for an all-India strike on February 7. In a joint statement, the All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA), All India Bank Officers Association (AIBOA) an

New Delhi [India]: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday issued summons to controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik and his organization Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The foundation had first come under the scanner after the terrori

The Centre on Thursday appointed Delhi Police Commissioner Alok Verma as the new CBI Director. Hours later, the Congress called it a “wrong selection”. Leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, who is a part of the three-member selection committee along with Prime Minister Narendra

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he is glad that the Indian youth have not fallen into the trap of radicalisation and have successfully resisted extremist approaches. Interacting with a delegation of Muslim religious scholars, academicians, intellectuals and other eminent

Srinagar: Pakistan-based Mumbai attack mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi’s nephew Abu Musaib, one of the most wanted Lashkar-e-Toiba militants, was killed in a gunfight with security forces in a north Kashmir village on Thursday, police said. Musaib, who headed the Lashkar wing in Bandipore, was o

NEW DELHI: For the past three days, intelligence agencies and Delhi Police's Special Cell are trying to find a Delhi link to the Kanpur railway accident that killed 150 people in November 2016. Three men — Zia-ul-Haq, Shoaib and Zubair — are being grilled at the cell's headquarters at Lodhi Colon

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