NEW DELHI: The Bihar election results on Sunday saw Grand Alliance leaders Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad have the last laugh as they decimated the BJP-led NDA in a bitterly-contested assembly polls. The Mahagathbandhan of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad swept the poll bagging 178 assembly seats, five

New Delhi: The mandate in Bihar was a vote against "intolerance" and "hatred" said the Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party and the ruling Trinamool Congress of West Bengal as the counting threw up a clear lead of the Grand Alliance over the NDA. "This is a victory of unity over divisiveness

NEW DELHI: The Nitish Kumar-led Grand Alliance has now pulled way ahead of the BJP on a dramatic Sunday morning that has seen unprecedented confusion as votes are counted for the Bihar assembly elections. Here are the latest developments in this story: The Grand Alliance is now leading in 128

The Railways has announced new refund rules while doubling cancellation charges for all classes with effect from November 12. With this, the minimum cancellation charges for confirmed tickets 48 hours prior to scheduled departure will be Rs 240 for AC-1 executive class, Rs 200 for 2AC/1st class,

BALI:  Amidst the ongoing debate back home on intolerance, Vice President Hamid Ansari today said India is a pluralistic society and there are constitutional guarantees to ensure diversity and a secular state that shows equal respect for all faiths and religions. He also said that India is a coun

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