Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra and a veteran Congressman, Abdul Rahman Antulay, widely known as A. R. Antulay, passed away on Tuesday morning. He was 85. He also served as the Union Minister for Minority Affairs in the UPA-I government. The funeral will take place at his native Ambet villag

MUMBAI:  At least 300 people fell ill in Ulhasnagar near Mumbai on Saturday after a tankers dumped hazardous discharge into a drain. The trouble began at 09:00 am when residents who live alongside the drain started complaining of nausea and irritation. Most of these people live in the hutments

Indian citizens planning to travel to France for tourism and business purpose can now get their visa in just 48 hours from December 1, with the French government easing the norms in view of a significant rise in the number of tourists travelling to the country from India.  The French government h

SRINAGAR/RANCHI:  Voting has begun for the first of the five-phase assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand today. The BJP, which swept the Lok Sabha elections in May and recently added Maharashtra and Haryana to its kitty, is hoping to win big in both states, where regional parties are

Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday kicked up a controversy by dubbing the practice of "purdah" (veil) as an "evil tradition", saying it should be scrapped as it hindered progress of women. "This system did not exist in the distant past. Did Sita or Draupadi ever don a veil? Som

PANAJI: Private carrier Jet Airways has started a new daily direct flight linking Goa with Abu Dhabi. The guests travelling from Goa will now be able to seamlessly connect toAbu Dhabi and to multiple international destinations in Europe, North America, Africa, Middle-East and the Gulf, the company s

NEW DELHI/DUBAI/RIYADH: India is pressing rich countries in the Gulf to raise the wages of millions of Indians working there, in a drive that could secure it billions of dollars in fresh income but risks pricing some of its citizens out of the market. Over 5 million nationals are believed to be e

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today unequivocally said that repatriation of black money kept abroad is a "priority" for his government, as he sought close global coordination to achieve this objective. Raising the black money issue at an informal meeting of leaders of the five-nation BRICS bloc, M

NEW DELHI: An Indian military court has sentenced seven soldiers to life in prison for killing three Kashmiri youths in a rare ruling against the army, the tense region’s top official said Thursday. Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said the soldiers shot dead the youths in 2010 after staging

NEW DELHI: Former Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar and three others were on Sunday inducted into the Union Cabinet as Prime Minister Narendra Modi expanded his council of ministers, bringing in 21 new ministers as Shiv Sena kept away from the exercise. Suresh Prabhu, a former Shiv Sainik and p

PANAJI: Laxmikant Parsekar was on Saturday sworn in as the chief minister of Goa. Parsekar was administered the oath of office and secrecy by state governor Mridula Sinha. Earlier, Laxmikant Parsekar was unanimously elected the leader of the BJP legislature party in Goa. Announcing the deci

SURAT:  Seconds before take-off from Surat in Gujarat on Thursday evening, a SpiceJet flight with 140 passengers on board thudded to a stop; it had hit a buffalo that had strolled on to the runway through a gap in the airport's boundary wall. The collision killed the buffalo and caused potentiall

Normal life remained disrupted in the Kashmir Valley for the second consecutive day on Wednesday due to restrictions imposed by the government in the wake of killing of two youths in Army firing on Monday even as the accused soldiers were questioned by their superiors. Various separatist leaders,

A day after the killing of two youth in Army firing in Budgam district, authorities on Tuesday imposed strict restrictions in several parts of the Valley, including Srinagar, to thwart protests. The situation has arisen at a time when the insurgency-hit state is gearing up for Assembly elections

NEW DELHI: The over-eight-month-long suspense over the fate of Delhi assembly and government has ended with the capital heading for fresh elections. On Monday, the three major political parties — BJP, AAP and Congress — informed lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung that government formation was not possi

NEW DELHI: Days after communal riots hit east Delhi, tension is simmering in another part of the capital with a group of villagers resolving not to allow Muharram procession in their area. The decision taken at a 'maha-panchayat' held in Bawana village in northwest Delhi on Sunday had the sup

Hyderabad: For the first time in the country, doctors in Hyderabad have performed a heart surgery on a foetus to correct a serious condition that reportedly has no cure once the baby is born. Coming as it does on the eve of World Foetus Day on October 31, it has given India a great new reason to cel

The Centre on Wednesday submitted a list of 627 account holders in Geneva’s HSBC Bank before the Supreme Court which refused to go through the names and asked the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to act on information relating to black money keepers in accordance with the law. A day after slammin