In a neck-and-neck electoral race, ruling BJP won 1,443 out of the total of 3,351 wards while opposition parties including Congress and Independents won 1,908 wards in the Rajasthan civic body polls, results for which were announced today. The 129 civic bodies in the state had gone to polls on Au

NEW DELHI: Realising the need of the internet in everyday life, two commerce graduates decided to give free Wi-Fi to people in exchange of a cleaner surrounding with a unique initiative -- a 'Wi-Fi Trash Bin'. "When somebody dumps trash into a dustbin the bin flashes a unique code, which can be u

Ahead of the Assembly elections in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a package of Rs. 1.25 lakh crore for the State at a function in Ara on Tuesday. The package would change the “face and fate” of the State, he said. Inaugurating several national highway and skill development proje

DUBAI:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday repeatedly slammed Pakistan, without naming it, in a speech at a Dubai cricket stadium packed with an Indian diaspora that roared its approval. India and the United Arab Emirates had sent out a clear signal against terror in their joint statement sig

Gangster Abu Salem, who had made life hell for several Bollywood and other prominent personalities through extortion calls and firings, is allegedly facing a tough time inside Taloja Jail. In a 16-page affidavit, submitted in the TADA court on Friday, the 40-year-old, who is being tried for his r

President Pranab Mukherjee, in his Independence Day eve broadcast to the nation, did not mince words to convey serious concern over Parliament turning into an "arena of combat rather than debate”. Mukherjee said, "Our institutions of democracy are under stress. Parliament has been converted into

APJ Abdul Kalam has left an indelible mark on the hearts and minds of Indians in a manner few other public figures have in recent memory. In death he achieved the kind of acclaim in people's hearts that politicians covet but may never come close to attaining.  In material terms, the "People's P

The Bombay High Court on Thursday set aside the countrywide ban on nine variants of Nestle’s Maggi instant noodles, saying the national food regulator had acted in an “arbitrary” manner and not followed the “principles of natural justice” while banning the product. The court, however, ordered Nes

A physically challenged shopkeeper was allegedly attacked with a sword in suburban Chembur following which four persons have been arrested, police said on Thursday. The incident took place on Tuesday evening when the main accused Akram Sheikh (28) entered the shop of Rajnish Thakur (36) at P L Lo

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