Amid protest by minority groups against Yoga Day allegedly being made compulsory, the BJP Member of Parliament from Gorakhpur Yogi Adityanath on Monday said those who want to avoid Yoga can “leave Hindustan”. He also said people opposing 'Surya Namaskar' should drown themselves in the sea. The fi

Sparking a fresh row between the Delhi government and the Centre, Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar was arrested on Tuesday for submitting fake degree certificates to the Bar Council of Delhi.  Tomar later submitted his resignation saying that he did not want to affect the image of the Aam Aadmi

Driven by the determination that lakhs of rupees lapse as the Muslim investors are reluctant to receive interests on their bank investments, the MSS puts that interest to use for public welfare activities. Kozhikode: After years of being a barren garden, the garden in front of the Kuthiravattam Gov

The scramble for booking tatkal tickets in the morning should now be a little bit easier, with IRCTC adding two high-capacity servers that have doubled peak-time efficiency. Tatkal reservations on all Indian trains total roughly 4,00,000 tickets (around 2.5 lakh PNRs) and are considered the hardest

Bangladesh and India have sealed a deal to swap border territories, more than 40 years after it was negotiated. The prime ministers of both countries watched as bureaucrats signed the pact in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital. The deal, reached in 1974 but only recently ratified by India’s parliament,

Just when the Narendra Modi government was celebrating its first year in office on a note of simulated well being, Gardiner Harris, bureau chief of New York Times in New Delhi, spoilt the party by making a gloomy announcement: New Delhi, the capital of Modi's dream nation, was unlivable and that Har

The southwest monsoon hit Kerala on Friday, six days after its original scheduled date of onset, even as the country braced for what has been predicted to be a season of deficient rainfall.  The India Meteorological Department (IMD) cited the "fairly-widespread-to-widespread” rainfall over Kerala

MUMBAI:  The Shiv Sena has said that it is time Prime Minister Narendra Modi revealed his 'Mann Ki Baat' on the contentious issue of Ram temple in Ayodhya even as it remarked BJP lawmaker Vinay Katiyar's comments in this context as a "bomb" which can explode in future. Rajya Sabha lawmaker Vinay

Every year, June 5 is celebrated as World Environment Day with a new theme. This year the theme is "One Planet. Consume with Care." This year's theme is encouraged by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation report which says that every year, 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted and more than 20,

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Friday certified Maggi noodles as "unsafe and hazardous” for consumption and ordered recall of all its variants from stores across the country within three days. Nestle India, makers of Maggi Noodles, perhaps had an inkling of the FSSAI

NEW DELHI: Internet giant Google has apologized "for any confusion or misunderstanding" caused after PM Narendra Modi's images started appearing in image search results for query on "Top 10 criminals in India". "These results trouble us and are not reflective of the opinions of Google. Sometimes,

NEW DELHI: India and the United States have sealed an agreement to jointly develop protective gear for soldiers against biological and chemical warfare, and another on building generators, defense officials said on Wednesday. The projects were cleared as US Defense Secretary Ash Carter held talks

Boston: Renowned Islamic scholar of India Professor Akhtarul Wasey has emphasized that in India Islam or Muslims have been part and parcel of Indian landscapes for over a thousand years. "Since their arrival in India, Muslims have paid close attention to Hinduism and India and showed keen interes

NEW DELHI: This year's monsoon may arrive on India's southern Kerala coast in the next five days as the rains have missed their normal start date of June 1, weather officials said on Monday. The annual rainy season is vital for India as half its cropland lacks irrigation. The farm sector accounts

NEW DELHI:  Kerala has ordered a pullout of Maggi noodles from government-run outlets and the Delhi government has said samples that it tested were found "unsafe," amid a country-wide scrutiny of the product for high content of lead and monosodium glutamate or MSG, a taste enhancer. However, Goa'

NEW DELHI:  The state-run telecom Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited will offer free national roaming from June 15, Union minister for Communications Ravi Shankar Prasad said today. Spectrum sharing and trading policy to go to Cabinet this month and full mobile portability will be given from July, he a

Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptulla Monday defended BJP governments’ predilection to ban beef, saying the sentiments of the majority community too should be respected. “I have one principle, I should not hurt anybody’s sentiments. You are talking about sentiments of the minority community. S

New Delhi : Activists and academics on Sunday came out strongly against the Narendra Modi government, accusing it of following the worst policies of the erstwhile Congress-led UPA government. "The media has been giving a view that everything is fine and the economy is looking up which is not true