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

At least 35 people reportedly died and hundreds were stranded as heavy rain, caused by a deep depression in the Arabian Sea, lashed Saurashtra and south Gujarat on Wednesday. While Amreli was the worst affected district, major cities Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot and Bhavnagar were also severely hit b

NEW DELHI: Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje has "admitted" to BJP leaders that she indeed signed an affidavit to back former IPL boss Lalit Modi's application for resident status in UK, Times Now reported on Thursday. Raje has told BJP brass that "she signed documents as a friend of Lali

NEW DELHI:  A Delhi court has accepted a complaint that union minister Smriti Irani misrepresented her educational qualifications, triggering strong calls for her resignation from the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party, whose Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar was arrested earlier this month on charges

Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has ordered special facilities for Muslim prisoners observing 'Roza' (fast) during the holy month of Ramadan, a state government spokesman said on Tuesday. Following his instructions, under humantarian and health grounds, all such prisoners wo

MUMBAI: In a daring rescue operation in adverse weather conditions, India Navy on Monday rescued 20 crew members of a vessel in distress, Jindal Kamakshi, 40 nautical miles northwest of Mumbai harbour, a Navy official said. All rescued crew members are undergoing medical check-up. "While 19 we

20th June 2015 |  Bhatkallys News The program was started with inaugural words of Prof. Kaushal Kumar Mishra head dept of political science Banaras Hindu University. He stated the conference as historic event organised by BHU & SIO both and will send a positive message to whole nation, he als

New Delhi: Only 10 days are left to exchange pre-2005 currency notes, including those of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denominations at banks, as the deadline ends on June 30. Seeking cooperation for withdrawing pre-2005 currency notes from circulation, the RBI had asked the public to deposit the old desig

The traffic on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway was badly affected after landslide on the lane towards Mumbai near Khandala tunnel on Monday morning. Long queues of vehicles were seen on one side of the Expressway. A staffer at the Expressway control room said that the landslide occurred around 10 am a

Uprooted from Mumbai after the 1992-93 riots, thousands of Muslim families found safety in Mumbra on the city’s outskirts. Visiting it over a few days, Basharat Peer discovered islands of progress amid large seas of neglect in the township that nine lakh people call home On a recent afternoon, af