About 3,000 Indians with a degree or above are begging on the streets, according to the latest Census figures. Of this, 410 have degrees in technical field. Though this number is miniscule compared to the 3.27 lakh beggars counted during the Census, it showed that highly qualified people were for

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will share his thoughts with the nation in the 'Mann Ki Baat' programme which will be aired on the All India Radio (AIR) on Sunday. The 15th edition of the programme will be broadcast at 11 am in the morning. Regional language versions of this broadcast

Air India on Saturday clarified that the airline will be serving proper hot vegetarian meals on their 60 to 90 minutes domestic flights. In a statement issued on Saturday, the airline said, “Air India presently provides cold vegetarian snacks on flights of 60 to 90 minutes flights duration. Air I

In yet another unannounced stopover, Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Lahore on his way back from Kabul this afternoon. The announcement of his visit was made by a tweet the PM put out towards the end of his stay in Kabul. “Looking forward to meeting PM Nawaz Sharif in Lahore today afternoo

In a veiled attack against Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that Afghanistan will succeed only when terrorism no longer flows across the border and when nurseries and sanctuaries of terrorism are shut. Declaring that India is in Afghanistan to contribute not to compete, to lay th

A day after he was suspended from the BJP, MP Kirti Azad sought “justice” from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and denied that he had colluded with the Opposition while taking on Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over alleged corruption in Delhi cricket. Azad was speaking to reporters in Ahmedabad during

The Maharashtra government on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that it has decided to move a plea against the acquittal of actor Salman Khan in connection with the 2002 hit-and-run case. Government pleader Abhinandan Vagyani informed Justices A S Oka and G S Patel that the government will mov

Kerala Governor Justice P Sathasivam on Tuesday night missed an Air India flight from Kochi to Thiruvananthapuram after the pilot allegedly refused to wait for him to board the flight. While the Governor reached the airport around 11.28 pm after attending functions in Kozhikode and Thrissur, the

A car which Dawood Ibrahim purportedly used, was on Wednesday set ablaze by a right wing outfit, here with a poster of the fugitive gangster pasted on its windscreen, a fortnight after the ramshackle vehicle was auctioned in Mumbai for Rs 32,000. The green Hyundai Accent sedan was burnt by Swami

Juveniles aged 16 years and above will now be tried under laws for adults for heinous crimes as Parliament on Tuesday passed a much-expected bill in this regard against the backdrop of a juvenile convict being released in the gangrape-cum-murder case of December 2012. The Juvenile Justice (Care a

Kolkata, Dec 22 (PTI) An Alliance Air aircraft today suffered "extensive" damage after the driver of a Jet Airways tarmac bus ferrying its crew dozed off and rammed it into the vacant stationary plane at the airport here.   No injuries have been reported in the incident which occurred at

KOLKATA: A Jet Airways shuttle bus driver has confessed that he dozed off and crashed into an Air India aircraft at the Kolkata airport early this morning, causing damage worth crores though no one was seriously hurt. The plane, said to be worth Rs 400 crore, was extensively damaged, says Air Ind

NEW DELHI: Unmoved by the defamation suit filed by Arun Jaitley, Delhi chief minister and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the finance minister should not try to scare him or his party members by filing cases. "Jaitley should not try to scare us by filing cases in court. He should cooperate with t

New Delhi:  Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's proposed visit to Israel next year, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will travel to Tel Aviv, besides Palestine and two other countries, in mid January. Ms Swaraj will be on a four-day, four-nation visit starting January 15, officials in

NEW DELHI: Scores of protesters, including the parents of the December 16 gang rape victim, were detained by the police after they staged a protest against the release of the juvenile convict near India Gate here on Sunday. The juvenile convict in the December 16 gang rape case was released on Su

After a 10-minute hearing, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul were today granted unconditional bail in the high-voltage National Herald case by a local court where they appeared along with a phalanx of top party leaders. Facing a private criminal complaint lodged by BJP leader Subr

Washington: Almost all Indian IT companies would pay between USD 8,000 and USD 10,000 per H-1B visa from April 1 when the next annual H-1B visa filing session starts, thus making it quite unsustainable economically for them. This is not only because of the USD 4,000 new fee imposed on Indian IT c

Islamabad: Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has stopped his ministers from giving anti-India statements so that the peace process is not hit, an official said. A close aide to Mr Sharif said on Friday that the ministers and senior officials had been asked not to issue any statement that coul