BENGALURU: The first batch of Indians left the shores of Yemen on board INS Sumitra, the Indian Navy's off-shore patrolling vessel, on Tuesday night. 344 Indians and 40 other nationals were rescued from Aden, around 450km from Yemen's capital Sana'a. The vessel is sailing to Djibouti, in the H

National carrier Air India, which was to send an aircraft to Yemen for bringing back Indian nationals stranded there, said the flight to the strife-torn country did not go ahead today as clearances are awaited from overseas authorities. "The aircraft for evacuating Indians stranded in Yemen will

PANAJI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) condemned the statement made by Union home minister and BJP leader Rajnath Singh over the government's commitment to implement a ban on cow slaughter across the country. "We condemn this. The BJP, which has a majority, never had this on their manifesto whe

Jhelum river today crossed danger level in Srinagar and Sangam area of South Kashmir with heavy rains lashing most parts of the state which sounded an alert asking people to move to safer places. A senior official said water level of river Jhelum at 6 AM at Sangam (South Kashmir) and Ram Munshi B

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday backed the demand for a total ban on cow slaughter across the country but admitted that it would not be easy to get a law passed due to the present Parliamentary arithmetic. The former BJP chief was addressing a convention of Jain saints and sadhvis in

At the time when the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi was vaunting in Delhi state elections in January this year of being “Kismatwala” (the fortunate one) in having ‘controlled’ inflation by chance as a consequence of international devaluation of petroleum products, some chief ministers of his part

Panaji, March 27 (IANS) Asserting that beef is an essential part of the diet of the minority community, Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Friday asked animal rights activists to tone down their agitation against beef imported from neighbouring states, Parsekar asked the activists to ‘go ea

MUMBAI: The trend of Indians returning from abroad to work here has picked up pace with the recovery in the country's economy. Counter intuitively this is even as the monetary benefit that these executives could expect to earn has reduced over the last few years. The gap in premium between what the

Two crew members are missing after an Indian navy plane crashed into the sea off the western state of Goa. The navy said the plane, a Dornier surveillance aircraft, was on a routine flight when it went down late on Tuesday. The cause is not known. One crew member was rescued and a search opera

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government seems to be reconsidering its stance on reservations for Muslims. While replying during question hour in the legislative council on Tuesday, minister for minorities development Eknath Khadse said the state government was committed to give minorities their just shar

BENGALURU Bowing to mounting public pressure, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah on Monday decided to hand over to CBI the probe into the mysterious death of an upright IAS officer that had led to national outrage and statewide protests. The chief minister made the announcement in the assembly, saying he

(PTI Photo) LUCKNOW/JAIPUR: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Sunday hit out at the Modi government saying both Muslims and Christians were insecure under the BJP-led dispensation, and passed a resolution to launch a parallel campaign to counter 'ghar wapsi' and 'love jihad' propaganda o

JAIPUR: Representatives of All India Muslim Personal Law Board today alleged here that the agenda of development on which Narendra Modi had contested election has been "left behind". They also accused RSS and other Hindu outfits of trying to force their agenda on Muslims. However, they said that

BIJNOR (UP): Muslims themselves are responsible for bringing a bad name to the community and creating the "Islam's image of terror", Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind general secretary Maulana Mehmood Madani today said and called for spreading education in the community to change this. "If Muslims for coming 2

BACHHRAWAN/ LUCKNOW: At least 30 persons were killed and around 150 others injured when the engine and two coaches of the Dehradun-Varanasi Janta Express derailed near Bachrawan railway station in UP's Rae Bareli on Friday. According to preliminary reports, the locomotive driver apparently oversh

NAGPUR: Call it an attempt by the cash-strapped Indian Railways to mop up revenue or reduce rush inside the stations, the platform tickets will cost Rs10 from April 1. Till 2012, those entering railway platforms had to pay Rs3 but in 2012 railway budget, the then railway minister Dinesh Trivedi h

BENGALURU:  Amidst rising public anger over the mysterious death of Indian Administrative Service officer DK Ravi, several IAS officers in Karnataka have signed an online petition addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation. 13.58 lakh people

NEW DELHI: Plans are afoot to amend a criminal law that will allow compromise and settlement between husband and wife at the onset of trial in dowry harassment cases, a move that comes after frequent misuse of the provision to trouble men and their near relatives. Under the proposal, Section 498A