New Delhi:  The government on Friday said no case of Ebola virus has been reported in India so far, even as it announced the setting up of 24-hour emergency helplines to assist people. "As of this moment, there is no Ebola case reported in India. There is no need to panic," Health Minister Harsh

Veteran politician Jaswant Singh, who resigned from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) just ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections to contest as an independent, has been hospitalised after suffering a head injury. According to reports, the former BJP leader suffered an injury after he fell at his ho

Bhubaneswar, Odisha:  The floods triggered by heavy rains in the past week have affected nearly 1.8 million people in Odisha with the death toll rising to 35, an official said on Thursday. Eight more deaths were reported from 24 of the state's 30 districts, taking the number of those killed in ra

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill, 2014 that gives powers to the Juvenile Justice Board to decide if a juvenile above 16 years, involved in heinous crimes like rape, would be tried in an adult court. Women and child devel

Asserting his role to resurrect the Congress ahead of the Assembly polls, party vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday stormed into the Well of the Lok Sabha supporting party MPs who were demanding an immediate discussion on rising incidents of communal violence.  Outside Parliament, the Gandhi

Thane:  Swapnali Lad, a 24-year-old software engineer, is battling for her life in a hospital near Mumbai after she jumped from a moving rickshaw, allegedly to escape a bid to kidnap her. The police claim that on Saturday night, Ms Lad, who works with a software giant in Mumbai was headed home fr

The Railways will start serving precooked food from famous brands on three trains, two of them originating from Karnataka, from this week.  While MTR will cater to the needs of passengers of Delhi-bound Karnataka Express, those boarding Bangalore-Ahmedabad Express can taste food varieties from IT

NEW DELHI: There could be soon freedom for you from affidavits or attested copies while filing any application. All central ministries and departments have been asked to start accepting "self-declaration" as early as possible. A day after the administrative reforms and public grievances departmen

Patna:  The Bihar government has issued a high alert and evacuated 20,000 people living along the embankment of the Kosi River as a 10-metre high wall of water is expected to sweep down the river from Nepal soon, officials said. The alert comes in the wake of a massive landslide over Bhote Kosi,

Saharanpur: Curfew will be relaxed in the violence-hit Saharanpur district for eight hours on Friday. The curfew will be relaxed from 10 am to 6 pm. All government offices will remain open from 10 am to 5 pm. District Magistrate Sandhya Tiwari had on Thursday announced that during curfew

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court observed on Thursday that the victims of custodial deaths in Maharashtra appear to be only from the minority community. A division bench of Justices V M Kanade and P D Kode made the remark after they informed advocate Yug Chaudhry of their decision to appoint him as

PUNE: The death toll in the landslide at Malin village near here rose to 23 on Thursday morning even as rescue workers resumed operations, which were hampered during the night due to rain and poor visibility. As many as 44 houses were crushed in Malin village, situated in Ambegaon taluka, some 12

Kolkata: The recent outbreaks of encephalitis, or severe inflammation of the brain, have killed around 550 people in India this year and the toll is likely to rise, officials have said. The states of Uttar Pradesh (UP), Bihar, Assam and West Bengal are the worst hit. “This is a seasona

NEW DELHI: The biggest threat to this year's monsoon seems to have receded. El Nino conditions that were building up in the Pacific have eased in the past month, prompting the Australian weather bureau to withdraw its El Nino 'alert' on Tuesday. The bureau downgraded its outlook to El Nino 'watch

Eid-ul-Fitr, marking the culmination of the holy month of Ramadan, was Tuesday celebrated with religious fervour and gaiety across India. Thousands of men and children clad in new attire and wearing skull caps offered Namaz-e-Eid in Eidgahs or open grounds and hundreds of mosques. Millions o

MUMBAI: The police action against Marathi-speaking people at Yellur in Karnataka has prompted protests by political parties in Maharashtra, with the Shiv Sena calling it as an act of "terror" and seeking Centre's intervention in the "disputed" region. "It is the reign of goondas. Even we can do t

CHENNAI: Early salary payment, bonus for Eid and greater competition in the funds transfer market have all resulted in a 15% increase in remittances from the Gulf between June and July during the Ramzan month. Federal Bank has seen remittance transactions move up to 2.3 lakh in July compared to 1

New Delhi: Communal flare-up has gripped India in the last two months since the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government came to power. Sikhs of neighbouring Punjab and Haryana are on the verge of clash over formation of a separate Gurdwara management committee, two sects of Mu