NEW DELHI: India's monsoon rains may arrive at the southern Kerala coast around May 30, earlier than the usual June 1 onset date, India Meteorological Department said on Thursday. In 2014, the annual rains hit the Kerala coast on June 6. India received deficient rains during the four-month lon

Indian PM Narendra Modi has begun a three-day visit to China as the two countries seek to boost economic co-operation. Mr Modi has met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Xian, capital of Mr Xi's home province of Shaanxi, and will later travel to Beijing and Shanghai. The leaders of the world's tw

At least 15 people were injured in West Bengal after a crude bomb exploded in a local train on the Sealdah-Krishnanagar line early on Tuesday morning. The blast, which left three passengers critically injured, exposed the glaring lapses in the passenger security system in local trains. The explos

For once, it might be a good thing to be dropped from an Indian Railway waiting list at the last moment. IRCTC has launched a new scheme that lets customers who have been dropped from a waiting list avail a last minute flight ticket at a “competitive” fare. This is how the scheme works, as per IR

New Delhi: Four earthquakes shook devastated Nepal in quick succession on Tuesday afternoon, the first a massive 7.3 on the Richter scale. 48 people have died in Nepal and nearly a 1000 are injured. In India, where tremors were felt were felt across Northern and Eastern India, 17 people have died

A powerful earthquake measuring 7.1 on richter scale epicentred in Nepal shook West Bengal, Delhi and several parts of north India today, less than three weeks after the region was struck by a devastating temblor. "The quake measured 7.1 on richter scale with epicentre somewhere in Nepal," an IMD

New Delhi: Incarceration of Muslim youths in fabricated terror cases is becoming more dangerous than communal riots, Maulana Arshad Madani, the Jamiat e Ulama Hind chief, said here on Friday. “Thousands of youths are languishing in different jails across the country for years, some for as long as

Salman Khan will not have to go to jail pending disposal of his appeal against conviction in the 2002 hit-and-run case after the Bombay High Court suspended his sentence and granted him bail, in a huge relief to one of the reigning superstars of Bollywood. "This is not a case where I should keep

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has declared that his government views all religions at par and won't tolerate any discrimination. In an extensive interview to Time magazine, the prime minister said his and the BJP's philosophy was "Sabka saath, sabka vikas - Together with all, progress for all.

Salman Khan was today sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment by a Mumbai sessions court, which convicted him of culpable homicide in the 2002 hit-and-run case, dealing a big blow to the Bollywood superstar. Judge D W Deshpande, who held the 49-year-old actor guilty of "all charges", includ

NEW DELHI:  Dawood Ibrahim, one of India's most-wanted men for masterminding the 1993 blasts in Mumbai in which 300 people were killed, has not been located so far, the government said in Parliament today, contradicting its own stated position that he is in Pakistan. In response to a question by

A day after an AAP volunteer accused senior leader Kumar Vishwas of not clearing the air on "rumours" about an illicit liaison with her, its national secretary Pankaj Gupta today dismissed the development as a "non-issue", saying it could be a "vendetta" against Vishwas and AAP waged by some "anti-p

Officials in Nepal say the death toll from last weekend’s massive earthquake has climbed past 7,040. National police officer Babu Kanji Giri said on Sunday that the death toll had reached 7,040 as more bodies are found in the debris. The Home Ministry said that 14,123 people were injured in th

New Delhi: In a startling revelation, former Deputy Inspector General of Central Bureau of Investigation Neeraj Kumar claimed that one of India most wanted terrorist and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was once ready to surrender. Kumar in his book said he spoke to Dawood thrice in June 1994 and he

The 24-hour strike by state transport corporation employees and some private operators against the proposed Motor Bill hit normal life across the country on Thursday. Commuters faced hardship in Kerala with buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws going off the roads, while transport services were cripple

NEW DELHI: A US panel tracking international religious freedom has, in its latest report on India, noted that religious minorities in the country were exposed to "derogatory" comments by leaders of the ruling BJP as well as "violent attacks and forced conversions by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (

Highlighting the farmers' plight a day after his Punjab visit, Rahul Gandhi today targetted Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Lok Sabha for his foreign tours and said he should travel to the state to know first hand about the condition of the farming community. "Again his (PM's) tour is on the card

NEW DELHI: The new chief election commissioner, S Nasim Zaidi, on Sunday said the EC would soon devise a long-term strategic plan aimed at strengthening the institution, making the election operation more efficient and raising voter awareness. Speaking to mediapersons soon after taking charge as