NEW DELHI: President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice-President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday extended Holi greeting to the people, saying the festival symbolises the spirit of tolerance, harmony and prosperity. In his 'Holi' message, the President said the festival symbolises t

Petrol price was on Wednesday raised by Rs 3.07 per litre, while diesel price was hiked by Rs 1.90 per litre in Delhi. The revised prices will be effective midnight. After today's revision, a litre of petrol in Delhi will cost Rs 59.68, while diesel will retail at Rs 48.33/litre, said Indian Oil

New Delhi: In a sensational blunt statement, Modi Government’s AYUSH Ministry has said that as per government policy, it does not recruit Muslims. This unbelievable truth came out in a reply to an RTI (Right to Information) query about the Muslim teachers and trainers recruited by the AYUSH  Ministr

New Delhi,March 11, 2016: The much awaited Real Estate Bill, which aims to protect the interests of buyers and bring more transparency to the sector was on Thursday passed in Rajya Sabha. The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2015, which intends to protect home buyers, bring in transpa

New Delhi, Mar 11, 2016 (PTI): The JNU today revoked the academic suspension of eight students including its students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar in connection with the controversial event at its campus to protest the hanging of Afzal Guru. The suspension was revoked after a high-level commit

MUMBAI, March 10, 2016:Slamming Raj Thackeray’s remarks on non-Marathis getting autorickshaw permits, the Opposition Congress and NCP today accused him of pursuing “hate politics” and demanded that BJP-Shiv Sena government take legal action against the MNS president. Claiming that 70 per cent of

NEW DELHI, March 11, 2016: The Bill intends to empower the government in providing targeted services to the intended beneficiaries by assigning them unique identity numbers The Lok Sabha on Friday passed the Aadhaar Bill to provide a unique identity to residents and give legal teeth to the govern

LONDON/HERTFORSHIRE, ENGLAND:  The world's most famous can be seen at the Madame Tussauds wax museum on Baker Street in the heart of London. Two buildings away is the home of industrialist Vijay Mallya. He has not been seen recently at this home; the Supreme Court has asked for a notice to be sen

Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani landed in fresh row on Monday after the family of a doctor killed in a road accident on the Yamuna Expressway claimed that she ignored their pleas for help. According to Sandali Nagar, the 15-year-old daughter of Dr Ramesh Nagar, her father d

The Assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam and Union Territory of Puducherry will be held between April 4, 2016 and May 16, 2016, spread over 43 days. It will be a single-day polling in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry on May 16, while it will be in six phases in West Be

Emphasising that India was a pluralistic country, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) and Archbishop of Trivananthapuram, Baselios Cleemis Cardinal Thottunkal, on Tuesday asserted that the majority of Hindus in the country were secular. "Politics is certainly good, but n

A property dispute is said to be the reason behind the murders. A family get-together in Thane ended late on Saturday night with a 35-year-old man killing 14 members of his family, including his parents, wife and sisters.The victims also included children and babies, the youngest of whom was five m

JNU Students Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar has told a Supreme Court-appointed investigation committee that he was beaten up, pushed to the ground and injured by men in lawyers’ robes in the presence of police during his production before the Patiala House Court on February 17. "When the

New Delhi, Feb 25 (PTI) After returning his Sahitya Akademi award to protest alleged intolerance, retired JNU professor Chaman Lal has decided to give back an award to the HRD Ministry in the wake of the raging row at the varsity. "I have decided to return the award containing a citation and Rs 5

Amid the raging JNU row, Congress today hoisted the tricolour at the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh office here even as it accused the organisation of merely doing a "lip service" to the cause of patriotism. Though police beefed up security anticipating trouble, the RSS workers present in their offi

ROHTAK/NEW DELHI:  Violence continued in different parts of Haryana, particularly Rohtak and Jind, as protesters demanding reservation in jobs and education for the Jat community set fire to police vehicles, buses, hotels and a mall. Despite a curfew and army presence, protesters continued violence

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to consider a bail plea of JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar on Friday. Kumar, through his counsels, senior advocate Soli Sorabjee, Raju Ramachandran and Vrinda Grover, filed a petition under Article 32 (writ jurisdiction) of the Constitution, conte

Siachen avalanche survivor Lance Naik Hanmanthappa Koppad breathed his last on Thursday morning after battling for his life for two days at the Army’s Research & Referral (R&R) hospital in New Delhi. Six members of the Dharwad soldier’s family, including mother Basamma, wife Mahadevi and