NEW DELHI:  Five people have been arrested for the attack on six Africans in south Delhi's Mehrauli on Thursday night. Police have said the attacks, a week after a Congolese national was beaten to death in the city, were "isolated incidents" not racist in nature. Two of those attacked have alleged

Advertising sector watchdog ASCI has rapped Patanjali Ayurved for "false and misleading" claims in its various advertisements, including for its hair oil and washing powder brands. The watchdog has ruled that the advertisements of the group associated with Yoga Guru Ramdev "unfairly denigrates" o

PUNE, 24 May, 2016: In a bizarre claim, a farmer has said he could earn only Re 1 from sale of nearly a tonne of onions at the district Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC). According to Devidas Parbhane, 48, the fall in onion prices is already taking a toll and like him, several others ha

NEW DELHI, May 22:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started on his two-day visit to Iran -- his first since taking over office two years ago. The visit comes four months after the sanctions on Iran were lifted and the international community is re-engaging with the nation. Here are the

Rampur: Slamming those who are critical of Madrasa education, Uttar Pradesh Minister and senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan on Sunday defended functioning of madrassas saying they produce "believers and not terrorists". Addressing the inaugural function of Madrasa Faize Hidayat here las

The Assam 2016 elections will see 29 Muslim MLAs this year, compared to 28 in 2011, with 15 from Congress, 12 from AIUDF and two from Bhartiya Janata Party. Assam has the second-largest Muslim population After Jammu and Kashmir. As per the 2011 census, Muslims constitute 34% of the state’s popula

The water mafia controls the area, but the woman of modest means is undeterred Mumbai , 12 May 2016: She is an unlikely saviour for the struggling, water-starved masses in Mumbai slums. But save them she does, and without any cash reward. Zarina, mother of ten and of low means herself, provides w

New Delhi: An Indian woman has given birth at the age of 72 with the help of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) in Hisar, Haryana. On April 19, Daljinder Kaur gave birth to a boy following two years of IVF treatment at a fertility clinic in of Haryana with her 79-year-old husband Mohinder Singh Gill.

BENGALURU: A few minutes past midnight on Thursday, the deafening roar of six mighty engines on the Antonov An-225 Mriya could throw many out of their beds in Hyderabad. The An-225 Mriya (Ukrainian for ‘dream’) will halt at the GMR-owned R.G.I Shamshabad Airport, Hyderabad, for 20 hours for  refu

May 11, 2016 Soon you will have to submit a copy of your income tax return (ITR) every year to the LPG dealer to claim subsidy on cooking gas cylinders. With the voluntary GiveItUp scheme not making much progress, the Petroleum Ministry has asked the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to inc

He is to be restored as Chief Minister the very moment President’s rule is revoked, it says NEW DELHI, May 11, 2016: Marking a graceful retreat from Uttarakhand, the Centre conceded on Wednesday in the Supreme Court that deposed Chief Minister Harish Rawat has won the trust vote conducted on May

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat accounts for over a third of the total Muslim detainees in the country, Union home ministry figures show. Of the country's 658 Muslim detainees, 240 are in PM Narendra Modi's home state. Tamil Nadu is a close second with 220. India has 82,190 Muslims in its jails and

External Affairs Ministry also emphasised that India will continue pursuing Mallya's deportation matter with the UK authorities. Four days after MEA revoked the liquor baron's passport, ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said, "The ministry has written to the High Commission of the UK in Delhi re

Documents accessed by RTI activist Anil Galgali from the Suburban Collector's office shows the government has allotted a 2,000 square metre prime plot to the BJP Lok Sabha MP for Rs 1.75 lakh at a rate of Rs 87.50 per square metre for construction of a dance academy. An RTI plea filed earlier by

Delhiites experienced another hot day with the mercury settling at 39.6 degrees Celsius, down by a notch from Tuesday’s 40.6 degrees Celsius. Wednesday’s maximum was, however, two notches above the season’s average. The minimum temperature was recorded at 26.3 degrees Celsius, five notches above

"China or Pakistan are (sic) tropes - to incite hatred against Indian citizens who may be culturally closer to China or Pakistan. We must ensure that this power (Modi government) must not last very long. The powerless must unite to fight the powerful,” the Kashmiri firebrand stated in a Facebook pos

Osmanabad: Over the last six months, Laxman Ritapure lost ten of his cattle. Four cows, four bullocks and two calves. As Marathwada's searing drought lengthened into a second year, he ran out of water and fodder to feed them. In this parched eight-district region where the drought has affected ev

The Bombay high court has rebuked the Nagpur civic body over plans to organise a mass recital of Hindu text ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ at an AIDS awareness camp. The court asked the BJP-ruled municipal corporation on Tuesday if it thought that “India is for Hindus only” and wondered why authorities did not