Sleuths of the Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), investigating the cash-for-vote case, arrested TDP legislator from Sattupalli in Khammam district Sandra Venkata Veeraiah after questioning him for over seven hours here on Monday. Mr. Veeraiah came to the ACB office in Banjara Hills at 10.30

After instant noodles, the country's food safety authority has now turned its focus on energy drinks containing caffeine, which are becoming increasingly popular among youngsters in urban areas, besides meat and poultry products. A set of new regulations on meat and poultry is likely to come into

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Saturday declared the results of the Civil Services 2014 examinations. IRA SINGHAL has secured the top position in UPSC civil services examination 2014. RENU RAJ and NIDHI GUPTA came second and third respectively in the examination. A total of 1236 ca

NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had expressed his discontent over the 2002 Gujarat riots and called it "our mistake", according to former RAW Chief A S Dulat. Dulat said this while recalling a meeting with Vajpayee. In an interview to Karan Thapar on his India Today TV pr

NEW DELHI: You can retain your mobile number while changing cities from Friday with the national mobile number portability (MNP) becoming a reality. The much-awaited proposal will enable you to keep your existing phone number while shifting cities -- say from Delhi to Mumbai or Chennai to Kolkata

In a controversial move, madrassas or Islamic seminaries have been derecognised as formal schools in the BJP-ruled Maharashtra, which has directed the district administrations to declare their students "out-of-school children". The move is being defended by the Devendra Fadnavis government as a m

Abu Dhabi - The Indian Embassy has launched a drive to encourage Indian expatriates in the UAE to register their details with the mission as the first step towards facilitating overseas voting of NRIs and to reach out to them in a better way. At a Press conference held at the mission on Wednesday

A fresh controversy involving External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in connection with her links to Lalit Modi erupted on Wednesday after it emerged that the former IPL chief offered her husband a position on the board of one of his family-run firms. The new controversy gave more ammunition for

After Bangladesh recently scored a historic 2-1 ODI series win against India at home, a section of the local media is seemingly having some fun at the cost of MS Dhoni's team. A caricature in a leading Bangladesh daily - Prothom Alo -- shows top Indian players, including MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli, wi

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the 'Digital India Week' in the national capital Wednesday with a view to empower the people of the country through the Digital India Programme. Digital India aims to transform the country into a digitally empowered knowledge economy. Apart f

NEW DELHI:  Two prisoners dug a 10-foot tunnel under a wall in the dead of night to escape from Delhi's Tihar jail, one of the country's most high security prisons. One of them, 19-year-old Faizan, was caught as he got stuck in a sewer line that was part of their obstacle course to freedom. His 1

The director of a private school in Nalanda was Sunday lynched by a mob, which had gathered after the bodies of two schoolchildren were found in a canal nearby. Police said the director was kicked and hit with bamboo sticks by the mob, which comprised mostly of teenagers. The victim, Devendra

At a whopping Rs 40 for a 10-km journey, the Chennai Metro, which was inaugurated by Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa via video conferencing on Monday, is the most expensive among the cities that have the facility in the country. In New Delhi, for example, a metro commute for 10 km costs about Rs 18

About 2,000 practising advocates registered with the city’s bar council have degrees from the same college and university as AAP leader Jitender Singh Tomar who is in jail facing charges of faking his academic degrees, Delhi Police sources told HT on Friday. The lawyers wh

India has recalled its High Commissioner to New Zealand, Ravi Thapar, and will investigate the allegation of assault levelled against his wife, Sharmila, by a member of the couple’s domestic staff. The External Affairs Ministry said here on Saturday that Mr. Thapar had been posted to headquarters he

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi marked the 40th anniversary of Emergency by recalling the suspension of democracy by the Indira Gandhi regime and the repression unleashed on her political opponents. Modi, who chose the day to launch three ambitious schemes, started with a tweet describing

HYDERABAD: A local NGO has alleged that the products of fast-food giant KFCwere unsafe for consumption, but the company refuted the charge saying it was an attempt to malign its reputation. "Lab tests conducted by Bala Hakkula Sangham concluded that KFC (product) is harmful. It showed that harmfu

New Delhi: The government is reportedly upset with BJP leader Ram Madhav for questioning Vice President Hamid Ansari's absence at a massive Yoga Day event in Delhi on Sunday where Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed asanas along with nearly 36,000 people. Sources close to the Vice President s