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

In yet another incident of ceasefire violation, Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked firing on forward Indian positions along the Line of Control in Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch district on Sunday night. Giving details, sources said that this has been the first incident of ceasefire violatio

President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday re-promulgated for the third time the Land Ordinance that prescribes processes for acquisition of land for public projects, official sources told The Hindu. His assent came before he left for an official tour to Sweden and Belarus. Despite Opposition protes

NEW DELHI: Eating out, mobile phone usage and air & rail travel have become expensive from today with the government hikingservice tax rate to 14 per cent. The government's proposal to increase the rate of service tax from 12.36 per cent (including education cess) to 14 per cent has come into

New Delhi: Mild tremors were felt in New Delhi and the National Capital Region for nearly a minute this evening, triggering panic as people living in high-rises rushed out of the buildings. No immediate loss of life and property were reported from anywhere in the city. The tremors came shortl

NEW DELHI:  It was expected but the re-promulgation of the land ordinance has once again come with more controversies. The Union Cabinet gave a go-ahead to the land ordinance for the third time today, after it failed to get support for the Land Acquisition Bill in Parliament in the face of a united

A scare at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport over a suspected radioactive leak turned out to be a false alarm on Friday as atomic inspectors gave the all clear. Airport authorities reported earlier that there had been a leak in a consignment of sodium iodide 131 - a radioactive liquid u

BJP ruled out a country-wide ban on beef on Thursday, saying it is for the states to take a decision on it keeping in mind the "sentiments of the people". "Wherever there is BJP government, we will consider sentiments of the people before imposing ban on beef. We have not said that we will be ban

Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday described the statement recently made by Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on cow slaughter as 'not palatable'. During a visit to Aizawl, Rijju said, "I eat beef, I'm from Arunachal Pradesh, can somebody stop

Mumbai: Just a week after she moved into an apartment in Mumbai, Misbah Qadri, a communications professional, was asked to leave. "I was told that they do not give flats to Muslim people," she says. The 25-year-old had found a three-bedroom apartment at Sanghvi Heights in Wadala after a long, dif

NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday unleashed an offensive against the Modi government and tried to come clean on allegations made by former Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) chairman Pradip Baijal in the 2G case. "I have not used public office to enrich myself

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday stepped up the attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his "suit-boot sarkar” over its anti-people policies and corporate affiliations.  Rahul was addressing a Youth Congress convention in Kozhikode. Slamming the BJP-led NDA government’s undue

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has changed its logo after one of its former volunteer demanded that the logo be not used following the fiasco that resulted in the ousting of Yogandra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan. The party has changed its Twitter and Facebook logo, the official website still uses the forme

New Delhi: As part of his ongoing public outreach, Rahul Gandhi will take up the problems of fishing communities and rubber growers in Kerala on Wednesday. After holding interactions with farmers, middle class flat buyers and ex-servicemen, Rahul will interact with fishermen at Chavakkad beach, a

NANDIGAMA, ANDHRA PRADESH:  In her small home, Nagamma is seated just a few feet away from her husband's dead body. 24 hours ago, he collapsed after the temperature crawled past 47 degrees in Nandigama in the western part of Andhra Pradesh. A family friend says Nagamma's husband was rushed to two