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

Gandhinagar (Gujarat) [India]: Refraining from speaking on Border Security Force (BSF) soldier video, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday said that he did not want to comment on the issue as the BSF comes under the Home Ministry. “I don’t want to comment on it as the BSF comes under Hom

New Delhi: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will address a rally in the city on the last day of the two-day internal meeting of the organisation’s West Bengal unit set to begin from January 14. Bidyut Mukherjee, in charge of RSS’s south Bengal units, confirmed that Bhagwat would be in Kolkata on January 1

The Madras High Court today ruled that a certificate issued by the chief kazi on talaq is only an opinion and has no legal validity. The bench, comprising Chief Justice S K Kaul and Justice M M Sundresh, gave the ruling while passing interim orders on a PIL by lawyer and former MLA Bader Syed.

MUMBAI: A National-level taekwondo and kick-boxing player barred from a boxing competition because he has the beard as part of his Muslim faith. According to Hindustan Times report, Sayyed Imran Ali, a second-year BCom student at GR Patil College in Mumbra came to University Sports Pavilion in Ma

Gandhinagar: India will soon have Islamic banking facilities with the Saudi Arabia-based Islamic Development Bank (IDB) set to start its India operations from Gujarat, the Gulf kingdom’s envoy in New Delhi said on Wednesday. “I would like to point to a very important development in our cooperatio

MUMBAI: Family members of fake encounter victim Ishrat Jahan have been asked to pay for security cover by Thane police. According to DNA reports, Mumbra police said Ishrat’s mother, Shamima Kausar have to pay three months dues of Rs 1,723 per day. She can avail police protection if she clears

Patna/Hajipur: Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) MLA Lalan Paswan has stirred a controversy by purportedly asking objectionable questions to girls of a residential Dalit school in Bihar’s Vaishali district where he had gone in connection with death of a Class X girl allegedly after being raped. H

New Delhi: A day after a border guard's video alleging that food of poor quality was served to jawans on the frontlines went viral and sparked a nationwide outrage, the Home Minister on Tuesday directed the Border Security Force to submit a fact report on the issue by tomorrow. On Monday, in a Fa

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Tuesday that India was on the threshold of becoming the world’s largest digitised economy offering immense opportunities to global investors. Mr. Modi was inaugurating the Vibrant Gujarat Summit. In his 35-minute address in English and Hindi, Mr. Modi

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Tuesday warned political parties that it will take "stern action" against violation of the model code of conduct and said it will not remain a "mute spectator". In a letter addressed to office bearers of political parties, the poll panel reminded the parties