GORAKHPUR: 12 people have been killed and over 40 injured after two passenger trains collided in eastern Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday night. The accident took place around 10:45 pm near Gorakhpur town nearly 270 km from state capital Lucknow. Krishak Express, travelling from Varanasi to Gorakhpur,

AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa on her way to the Parappana Agrahara court complex in Bangalore on Saturday. A special court has convicted her in a disproportionate wealth case. Photo: The Hindu Sasikala, Sudhakaran and Ilavarasi also given four years' imprisonment, fined Rs. 10 crore e

JEDDAH: Two senior politicians from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will represent India at Haj 2014. Arif Beg from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, and Abdul Rasheed Ansari from Delhi are among the few Muslim faces in the party. Beg is a former fed

NEW YORK:  India and China have resolved the stand-off at the Ladakh border. The withdrawal of troops will begin today and be completed by September 30, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Thursday while describing the resolution of the issue as a "big accomplishment." "I am happy to

The Mangalyaan spacecraft beamed its first photos of Mars' crater-marked surface on Thursday, a day after India successfully put the probe into the red planet's orbit. The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) posted one of the photos, titled First Light, on its Facebook page, showing an oran

MUMBAI:  "The alliance with the Shiv Sena is over," the BJP said in Mumbai this evening, ending a 25-year-old partnership. It said it was taking the decision with a "heavy heart" and promised a courteous break-up. "We asked them to be flexible, but the Shiv Sena stuck to 151 seats. There is very

Ahmadabad: An Indian man was recovering well after undergoing surgery to remove a bullet that had been lodged in his heart for two months, a doctor said Wednesday. Bharat Sharma, 32 was shot twice in July after becoming accidently caught up in a bank robbery in the country’s eastern U

September 24 2014 | Bhatkallys News New Delhi: To counter the impacts of the saffron hate campaign in Uttar Pradesh, the state unit of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has launched a 10-day Peace and Love Campaign. Through the campaign, Jamaat members and leaders are meeting non-Muslims with a message of pea

BANGALORE:  Mangalyaan, India's maiden Mars mission, successfully entered the planet's orbit today, in a historic moment for India's space programme. "History has been created," said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who watched the spacecraft successfully enter the Mars orbit this morning. Here are 10

Agencies | Sep 23, 2014 New Delhi A 20-year-old man was mauled to death at a Delhi zoo by a seven-year-old white tiger, Vijay, on Tuesday afternoon, after the victim apparently lost balance and fell into its enclosure. Though it is not clear how the man, identified as Maqsood, fell 18ft into a

India today created space history by successfully placing its low-cost Mars spacecraft in orbit around the Red Planet in its very first attempt, catapulting the country into an elite club of three nations. Watched by Prime Minister Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ISRO scientists successfully ignite

GUWAHATI/SHILLONG:  Torrential rain in the last 48 hours has triggered flash floods and landslides in several districts of Assam and Meghalaya, killing at least 10 people and displacing thousands. Seven people have died in Meghalaya's South West Garo Hills district after heavy rains lashed the ar

NEW DELHI: Reconciled to a near-inevitable break-up with Shiv Sena, BJP on Sunday rolled out a plan to contest all 288 seats in Maharashtra along with its smaller allies. The decision was taken by the party's central election committee (CEC) after BJP chief Amit Shah briefed Prime Minister Narend

Hyderabad: After emerging victorious in the war against Pakistan in 1965, India faced threat from its other neighbour China. In that situation the then Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri started collecting funds to combat any potential threat. He set up National Defence Fund for the purpose. The

MUMBAI: Seat-sharing talks between the Shiv Sena and the BJP have almost ground to a halt, with the saffron allies adopting tough stances. Late on Sunday evening, state BJP spokesperson Madhav Bhandari said "talks have come to a standstill". A source said the party's national president, Amit Shah

NEW DELHI: Voters queued up to exercise their franchise as polling began for the bypolls in three Lok Sabha and 33 assembly constituencies spread across 10 states on Saturday. The three Lok Sabha bypolls are in Vadodara (Gujarat), Mainpuri (Uttar Pradesh) and Medak (Telangana) while 11 assembly c

JAMMU/SRINAGAR: More than 96,000 people have been rescued in massive rescue-cum-relief operations launched jointly by the Armed forces and NDRF along with police from different parts of flood-ravaged Jammu & Kashmir. At least 84 IAF and Army Aviation Corps aircraft and helicopters are in action

MUZAFFARNAGAR:  BJP president Amit Shah has been accused of delivering a hate speech in the run up to the national elections by the police in Muzaffarnagar, which was devastated by communal violence last year. The local police in this part of Western Uttar Pradesh, a four-hour drive from Delhi, h