CHANDIGARH: ​A group of upper caste Rajput men allegedly poured petrol on and set on fire a Dalit family of four, killing two children and leaving their parents with serious burns in Sumped village in Faridabad on Tuesday morning. The children, two-and-a-half-year-old Vaibhav and nine-month-old s

Ahead of Pakistan Cricket Board chief Shahryar Khan’s scheduled meeting with new BCCI president Shashank Manohar, 40 to 50 members of the Shiv Sena stormed the board’s headquarters at Wankhede stadium in Mumbai, shouting slogans against Pakistan. The board presidents are meeting to discuss reviving

NEW DELHI:  A day after his critical comments regarding the lynching of a Kashmiri truck driver for alleged cow killing, Independent lawmaker of Jammu and Kashmir Engineer Rashid was attacked with ink today. Mr Rashid was at Delhi's Press Club in the afternoon -- accompanied by the family of the

HYDERABAD: All India MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi sought a ban on organisations and publications which fail to believe in the Constitution of India and laws of the land. He also demanded that outfits which justify such killings should be immediately banned, in context to the Dadri lynching incident. T

Urdu poet Munawwar Rana today joined over 30 authors who have returned Sahitya Akademi award while Hindi writer Kashinath said he was handing over the honour in protest against "irresponsible" comments by various ministers on writers who have been agitating against "rising intolerance". Participa

The chronic differences between the Delhi government and the Centre have once again come to the fore after reports of gangrape of 2 minor girls in the national capital. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modiand Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung for failing to

A 20-year-old from Saharanpur was allegedly killed in Sarahan by villagers who believed he was involved in smuggling of cattle, police said. Four others, alleged to be part of the same smuggling gang, were beaten up. Sarahan is located 37 km from Nahan, the headquarters of Himachal Pradesh’s Sirm

The Supreme Court stayed court proceedings and a summons issued by a special CBI court against former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and five others in the case of allocation of Talabira-II coal block in Odisha in 2005 to Aditya Birla group company Hindalco. The stay, which also applied to Hi

NAVI MUMBAI: Prices of pulses have skyrocketed over the past 12 months, with tur dal rates more than doubling to touch an all-time high. It is trading in wholesale markets at Rs 190 per kg at the moment against Rs 90 in October 2014; retail prices are another Rs 20-30 higher. Following close on its

Concerned over reaching school late due to traffic snarls caused by an under-construction flyover, an eight-year-old boy here wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi whose office directed the concerned department to look into the issue. "The under-construction flyover is causing problems f

MUMBAI: Senior Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday ventured where few have in the recent past, reminding Narendra Modi about his Godhra past while countering his criticism of the Sena's role in the recent controversies in Mumbai. The country first came to know of him (Modi) because of the Godh

PATNA: The Bihar poll scenario today got galvanised following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement on the Dadri lynching episode, with the leaders of grand alliance hitting out at him saying that his terming of the incident as unfortunate was too little and too late. Reacting sharply, RJD pre

Photo for representation Facing opposition fire for not taking them along, the Modi government on Sunday got a gentle nudge from BJP veteran L K Advani. "It is our collective duty to ensure that democracy and fundamental freedoms of citizens in India will never again be infringed,” Advani said

The high-stake Bihar Assembly election began today with voting starting at 7 AM in 49 seats, spread over 10 districts, in the first of the five phases of elections amid elaborate security arrangements. A total number of 1,35,72,339 electorate will cast their votes in the 49 Assembly seats for whi

ndia said on Friday it had lodged a protest with authorities in Riyadh after a maid from Tamil Nadu allegedly had her hand chopped off by her employer for complaining about her work conditions. India's foreign minister deplored a "brutal" attack on 55-year-old Kasthuri Munirathinam, who is now be

Renowned poet-philosopher Allama Muhammad Iqbal's son Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal died here today at the age of 90. He was under treatment for cancer at the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital in Lahore. He is survived by his two sons - Walid and Munib Iqbal - and wife Justice (retd) Nasira

NEW DELHI:  Arvind Kejriwal today questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's foreign tours and wondered whether it suited his stature to visit companies for investments. "PM Modi's US trip ends. Time to ponder what has country achieved from his foreign trips so far? Does it suit the stature of an

Mild tremors were felt in Pithoragarh and nearby areas on the India-Nepal border when a earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter Scale hit the district on Tuesday. "A lot of hullabaloo was created and people moved out of their houses when they felt the tremors, but there was no damage to life and