Chhota Rajan, one of India’s most wanted criminals who has been on the run since 1988, underwent preliminary questioning soon after he was brought to New Delhi from Bali on Friday in an IAF aircraft by a team headed by CBI officials. The team of seven officers were drawn from the CBI, Delhi Polic

More filmmakers joined the protest against intolerance as 25 eminent personalities on Thursday returned their awards to the government opposing the suppression of freedom of speech and the way Gajendra Chauhan was appointed chairman of the Pune-based Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).

Eight people were injured on Thursday when supporters of the joint action committee (JAC) on the killing of Mohammad Hasmad Ali alias Babu tried to storm the Irilbung police station in Imphal East district of Manipur, leading to a scuffle. Ali, a madrassa headmaster, was beaten to death on Novemb

After being on the run for the past 27 years, underworld don Chhota Rajan was brought here early this morning from Indonesia by a joint team headed by CBI officials for facing trial in various criminal cases registered against him in Delhi and Mumbai. The 55-year-old gangster, whose real name is

A clutch of exit polls on the Bihar elections gave the Grand Alliance led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar a slight edge, while one pollster bet on rival NDA to get a two-third majority. Four pollsters - C-Voter, AC Nielsen, CNX and News Nation (TV channel) - gave the JD(U)-RJD-Congress combine the

Just when the BJP was clearing the air over its leader’s controversial remark on actor Shah Rukh Khan, party MP Yogi Adityanath started a fresh fire when he said Khan and 26/11 attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed "speak the same language”. "...I am saying these people are speaking in terrorists’ langu

New Delhi: After leading a protest march of party lawmakers to Rashtrapati Bhawan, Congress president Sonia Gandhi attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, accusing him of "silence" amid "an atmosphere of fear, intolerance and threat" that she alleged was being scripted by organisations associat

Congress president Sonia Gandhi called on President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday evening where she is learnt to have voiced concerns over "growing incidents of intolerance” across the country. Sonia’s 40-minute meeting with Mukherjee comes on a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a sharp

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi must keep "his party members in check" from making controversial statements "or risk losing domestic and global credibility", an arm of global ratings agency Moody's said on Friday while urging the government to focus its attention on the reforms agenda. Mo

FARIDABAD:  Forensic experts in Haryana have concluded that the fire which killed two Dalit children and injured their parents started inside their house and not outside as claimed by the victims, reports said. The Haryana forensic team, that visited the village yesterday, has submitted its repor

After writers, scientists and filmmakers, more than 50 eminent historians, including Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib and M G S Narayanan, have now come out in protest against what they described as a "highly vitiated atmosphere of intolerance in the country.” Expressing anguish over the "prevailing situ

Delhi Police arrested Hindu Sena leader Vishnu Gupta on Wednesday for allegedly making a “false complaint” about beef being served at Kerala House, hours after chief minister Oommen Chandy asked the Prime Minister to act against policemen who conducted a “raid” on the state guest house. “Gupta ha

The killing of writer M M Kalburgi and rationalist Narendra Dabholkar and the Dadri lynching form a "dangerous” trend, said Abhitej Singh Sandhu (in picture), the grandnephew of freedom martyr Bhagat Singh. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, he lamented the youth had become intolerant towards othe

NEW DELHI/CHENNAI: The protest begun by writers has spread to other sections of the intelligentsia, with artists and scientists, in separate petitions on Tuesday, speaking out against what they described as a systematic spread of intolerance. More than 400 members of the artist community, includi

New Delhi: Politics over beef found a new address today as the Kerala House in Delhi took buffalo meat off its menu after a "raid" by 20 policemen over a complaint from a fringe group. After a day of protests against what many saw as bullying, Kerala House decided to bring back buffalo meat, send

Fugitive underworld don Chhota Rajan, one of India’s most wanted criminals and a leading figure in the Mumbai underworld, was arrested at Bali in Indonesia on Sunday. Rajan gained widespread sympathy and public attention after he broke away from Dawood Ibrahim gang, condemning it for carrying out th

NEW DELHI: Former Navy chief Admiral Laxminarayan Ramdas has written an open letter to President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemning the attacks on minorities and Dalits under the rule of the current government. "The Hinduism I knew and experienced was gentle, inclusive,

A major fire broke out in South Mumbai's busy Crawford market in the wee hours today, gutting over 60 shops. Fire officials said there was no casualty reported in the blaze. "Our control room received an alert at 5:23 AM that a massive fire broke out at Crawford market. Soon 10 fire tenders and e