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

Local MP and chief of All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) has once again questioned the logic of sending Muslims to gallows while leaving right wing extremists with imprisonment. Asaduddin, reacting after the hanging of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, on Thursday morning told reporters at party

The body of Yakub Memon, who was hanged in Nagpur this morning for his role in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts, was handed over to his family which flew it to Mumbai for last rites amid tight security with city police disallowing any procession. Security has been stepped up in Mumbai, especial

NEW DELHI: Yakub Memon, facing gallows in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, is all set to be executed tomorrow with the Supreme Court today clearing all legal hurdles by holding that there was "no legal fallacy" and "fault" in the death warrant issued against him. Yet-another last-ditch attempt by the

Every year more than a hundred thousand Muslims from India go for Hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam and mandatory for those who can afford it. During 1970s more than a thousand-year old preferred mode of travel for Indian hajis, the ships were discontinued and Air India was given the monopoly o

Shillong, Jul 27 (IANS): Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, who won popular acclaim as India's president from 2002 to 2007, died here on Monday evening after collapsing during a lecture at the IIM-Shillong. "Kalam is no more," Meghalaya Chief Secretary P.B.O. Warjri told IANS, shortly after the 8

In a suspected Fidayeen attack, terrorists in army uniforms resorted to indiscriminate firing in Punjab's Dinanagar town, leaving at least one person dead and seven injured, including police officials. The town is close to the border of Jammu and Kashmir state. It is about 235 km from Chandigarh.

A fire broke out at a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) installation in the early hours in Delhi on Saturday, killing a force personnel and damaging numerous official records and goods. Officials said the incident occurred about 3 am when a fire was reported from the 4th floor of the Electronic