New Delhi, May 5: After sending missions to the Moon and Mars, ISRO is now readying a spacecraft to orbit Venus to study what lies below the surface of the hottest planet in the solar system and also unravel the mysteries under the sulfuric acid clouds enveloping it. Addressing a day-long meeting

New Delhi (PTI): The Centre Wednesday asked eight eminent artistes, who were allotted government accommodations years ago but which were cancelled in 2014, to vacate the facilities by May 2, a move that comes a day after eviction proceedings were conducted against 90-year-old Padma Shri awardee and

Thanjavur, Apr 27 (PT) As many as 11 persons were electrocuted during a temple chariot procession in the district when it came into contact with a high tension transmission line, police said Wednesday. The deceased included children. The tragic incident occurred early today at nearby Kalimedu

Gorakhpur (UP) (PTI): Unidentified men killed a man, his wife and their 20-year-old daughter by slitting their throats with sharp-edged weapons here on Monday, police said. One of the accused has been arrested in connection with the incident, they said. The deceased have been identified as Gama N

Aurangabad, Apr 25: A businessman in Maharashtra's Parli Vaijanath tied his electric scooter to a donkey with a rope and paraded it around the town as a mark of protest against its manufacture for not fixing the fault in the two-wheeler after it stopped working just 15 days post delivery. Feeling

Mumbai(PTI): The Mumbai Police have shifted independent MP Navneet Rana to the Byculla women's jail here, while her MLA husband Ravi Rana was taken to Taloja jail in neighbouring Navi Mumbai amid tight security, an official said on Monday. The couple was arrested on Saturday after they gave a cal

New Delhi, Apr 22: A "propagandist" newspaper distributed on board the Bangalore-Chennai Shatabdi Express has snowballed into a controversy, drawing political reactions and prompting the IRCTC to initiate an enquiry in the matter. The IRCTC has admitted that the paper -- "The Aryavarth Express" -

Lakhimpur Kheri (UP), Apr 22 (PTI) Around 24 students of the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya at Behjam in Lakhimpur Kheri district were allegedly locked on the roof of the school by two teachers to pressure the district authorities into cancelling their transfer orders, officials said on Friday.

New Delhi, Apr 21: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday attacked the BJP over bulldozers razing several structures in violence-hit Jahangirpuri during an anti-encroachment drive, saying "we see the rule of law break down everyday" and soon there will be "no law and no rules". Several

Mumbai(PTI): The BJP and its associates are trying to create "communal situation" in the country, NCP chief Sharad Pawar alleged on Monday, comments coming in the backdrop of violence in several states during Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti celebrations and the issue of loudspeakers atop mosques ragi

Patna, April 15: The BJP was on Friday up in arms against former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, its ally in the state, for asserting that Lord Ram was a mythical character and "not a god". Manjhi had made the remark in Jamui district on Thursday while addressing a function held on BR Ambe

Thane (PTI): A woman was injured when her father-in-law allegedly opened fire at her from his revolver at their residence in Thane city apparently for not serving breakfast to him, police said on Friday. The 42-year-old woman, a resident of the Rabodi locality, suffered bullet injuries in her abd

Hyderabad, Apr 12: Alleging that the violence in Madhya Pradesh's Khargone city was a "state-complicit violence", AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday accused the state's Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and his government of giving "collective punishment to the Muslim community by demoli

Sultanpur (UP), Apr 11: A BJP MLA has written to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, demanding that Sultanpur be renamed as Kushbhawanpur after Lord Ram's son. In the previous term of the Adityanath government, Sultanpur's Lambhua MLA Devmani Dwivedi had made a similar demand. Sultan

Khargon(PTI): Curfew was clamped in the entire Khargone city of Madhya Pradesh after stones hurled at a Ram Navami procession here triggered arson and torching of some vehicles and houses, a senior official said on Monday. The incident took place on Sunday when devotees were celebrating Ram Navam

Ahmedabad (PTI): A tremor of 3.2 magnitude hit Gujarat's Kutch district on Sunday, but there was no report of any casualty or property damage, officials said. The tremor was recorded at 12.49 am, with its epicentre one km west-south-west of Rapar in Kutch district, at a depth of 12.2 km, the Gand

Lucknow, Apr 9 (PTI) The official Twitter handle of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's Office was hacked late Friday night, a senior officer said. He said the hackers sent out 400-500 tweets from the account. "The account was hacked for around 29 minutes in the night. The hackers posted around

Ayodhya (UP), Apr 6: Police here have booked a BJP MLA's son in a robbery and assault case, according to an official. The FIR was lodged in the Kotwali city police station of Faizabad on a complaint filed by Shyam Bahadur Singh, a resident of Ramnagar village in the Khandasa police station area o