Mumbai: Money doesn't grow on trees, but if you look hard enough, you might just find some floating in the sea. This is exactly what happened at the Gateway of India, where an unexpected windfall of money led to high drama and daredevilry all through Tuesday, as people jumped into the waves to fish

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will not challenge the conditional bail granted to Naba Kumar Sarkar alias Swami Aseemanand by the Punjab and Haryana high court last year in the Samjhauta blasts case. The Union home ministry on Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha that the NIA, upon exa

Hyderabad: AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday demanded the intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Lalit Modi debate in Lok Sabha and also to bring back Rs 1,365 crore involved in the case to the country. While participating in the debate on the controversy

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Centre to ensure that Aadhaar is not mandatory for citizens to avail any benefit under government schemes. The apex court also ruled that Aadhaar cannot be used for any purpose other than to link beneficiaries to the public distribution system and for dis

The Malwani police, several of whose officers were suspended for allowing a spurious liquor racket to flourish in their jurisdiction, which led to the deaths of more than 100 people in the hooch tragedy last month, seem to have declared war on an easy target: sex. Consenting adults who had checke

At least 10 pilgrims died and over 50 injured early on Monday morning near Lord Shiva temple in Deoghar district of Jharkhand. Most of the injured persons have been admitted to a local hospital. Most of them are from neighbouring state of Uttar Pradesh and Nepal. The incident happened at 4:30 am

The mystery over the parentage of a hearing-and-speech impaired Indian woman stranded in Pakistan grew more intriguing on Saturday after foreign minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted that a Bihar family said Geeta was their daughter, bringing the number of such claims up to four. A family each from Utta

Shiv Sena now wants the Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayi Yojana to be named after late party supremo Bal Thackeray. Health minister Deepak Sawant has recently written a letter to chief minister asking him to change the name. The CM Devendra Fadnavis has, however, put the proposal on hold. The ambitious sc

The National Investigation Agency, NIA, on Thursday took over the case of Wednesday's Udhampur terror strike in which a Pakistani terrorist was caught alive. A team of NIA, headed by Inspector General Sanjeev Kumar Singh, had been camping in Jammu since Wednesday and visited the site of the encou

At least 29 passengers, including 11 women and five children, were killed and 25 others injured when several coaches of two trains, one heading to Mumbai and another to Varanasi, derailed over a railway bridge in Harda district and plunged into the swollen Machak river. Over 250 passengers have b

New Delhi: The Congress party on Tuesday took the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party head-on a day after 25 of its Lok Sabha MPs were suspended by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan for five days for obstructing the proceedings of the House. “Democracy is being murdered,” cried Congress president Sonia Gandhi af

Twelve people were reported killed after a building in Thane (west) collapsed in the early hours of Tuesday. Seven people were injured in the incident. The building, Krishna Niwas, in B Cabin area close to Thane railway station had its third floor occupied by five families. Two other floors were vac

There is nothing unofficial about it. The government of India has banned access to at least 857 websites it considers pornographic. By order no. 813-7/25/2011-DS (Vol.-V), the department of Electronics and Information Technology has asked the Department of Telecom to notify internet service provider

KOLKATA: Flood situation in south Bengal districts remained grim on Monday after fresh water was released from different barrages, compounding the woes of over 37 lakh people in 12 affected districts. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who stayed at state secretariat Nabanna overnight to

NEW DELHI— In the social media deluge of tweets, poems and art work, to honour late President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, a piece of art by Delhi-based artist, Sameer Hazari, has managed to provoke. Hazari shows Kalam on a 1000-rupee note instead of Mahatma Gandhi that --notwithstanding the 200,000-plus

New Delhi: Petrol price was on Friday lowered by Rs 2.43 per litre and diesel by Rs 3.60 per litre, the third reduction in rates this month, with effect from the midnight of July 31 and August 1. Petrol in Delhi will cost Rs 64.47 per litre from Saturday instead of Rs 66.90 until Friday, while a

NEW DELHI: Government today opposed in the Supreme Court a plea seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against it, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and others for allegedly insisting on Aadhaar cards to grant benefits of various schemes to citizens, saying it was not mandatory. In pursuance of

Rameswaram (Tamil Nadu): Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was laid to rest on Thursday here with full military honours in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several other leaders who paid tributes to the man who strengthened India's missile programme and played a key role in country