NEW DELHI: The father of a student who died after being gang-raped on a moving bus in New Delhi spoke of his anger Friday after a senior minister referred to the infamous attack as a “small incident.” Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said at a tourism conference on Thursday that “one small incident

The barren border outposts on the international border with Pakistan and Bangladesh may soon turn green as BSF personnel on Tuesday set out on a record making effort to plant two lakh saplings in 30 minutes. Over a lakh saplings were planted on the border outposts with Pakistan. BSF personnel are

The Kerela govt plans to shut down all liquor bars operating in the state. (TOI photo) THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The excise policy of the Congress-led United Democratic Front government, finalized in a two-hour meeting held at the chief minister's official residence here on Thursday, proposed to make K

NEW DELHI: After basing its most potent Sukhoi-30MKI fighters at Tezpur and Chabua, India has now begun deploying six Akash surface-to-air missile (SAM) squadrons in the northeast to deter Chinese jets, helicopters and drones against any misadventure in the region. Defence ministry sources on Thu

NEW DELHI: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday slammed the Narendra Modi government for peddling the schemes and policies of UPA as its own, saying the rival which came to power by selling "false dreams" was now propagating falsehoods. Speaking at a conclave of women workers on the occasion

She wanted to be like Kareena Kapoor, and “could not wait to act in a movie”. In her last year of college, she “got offers from casting directors who would scout for faces in campuses and on Facebook”. But her “well-to-do” Mumbai-based Kashmiri Muslim family would not allow her to take up any film j

On the occasion of Independence Day, AMP organized a National event  titled “Hum Banenge Hindustan Ki Nayi Pehchan” in more than 35 Schools on 16th Aug 14. The event was intended to create awareness of Careers in Armed Forces & Government sectors to students and to motivate them to make their ca

The India-Pakistan relation is likely to remain frosty for sometime after the latest flashpoint. New Delhi is bracing for an attempt by Islamabad to raise the issue of Kashmir at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York late next month. Though both Prime Minister Narendra Modi an

MOTIHARI/PATNA: At least 21 people, including seven children and five women of a family, were killed and a woman was injured as the Muzaffarpur-Dehradun Rapti Ganga Express train rammed into a Paiggio auto when it was passing through a manned railway crossing that had been left open between Semra an

JEDDAH: The Indian Haj mission has introduced several high-tech measures to facilitate the pilgrimage of 136,000 Indians coming for Haj this year. “We will make use of every form of new-age technology, from Google Maps and smartphone applications, to Facebook, YouTube clips and text messages, to

At least 30 people, including women and children, have died and more than 24 have gone missing as the flood situation in Uttar Pradesh, especially in the eastern districts, worsened following incessant rain in the neighbouring Uttarakhand and increased discharge of water from the barrages in the pas

LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: More than three lakh people in seven Uttar Pradesh districts along the terai were hit by swirling river waters by Saturday afternoon, with a cloudburst in Nepal, release of waters from its barrages, and heavy rain in the catchment area of the Himalayan rivers being the foremost ca

AFP Photo Kathmandu:  India announced a relief assistance of Rs. 48 million, on Saturday, for the victims of the recent floods and landslides that hit different parts of Nepal, claiming over 240 lives in two weeks. "The government of India will provide Rs. 30 million (NRs 48 million) assistanc

Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday commissioned India’s largest indigenously built warship “INS Kolkata” into the Indian Navy, describing it as “a symbol of our self-reliance in the field of defence”. “INS Kolkata, entirely built in India, is a symbol of our self-reliance in the f

15 August 2014 | Press Release | Bhatkallys News The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC - www.iamc.com ), an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India's pluralist and tolerant ethos, has called on Indians across the world, to mark the occasion of India's 68th Independence D

Image Courtesy: Times of India NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday made a marked break from the past in his maiden Independence Day speech with many firsts — notably by scrapping the Nehruvian vestige, the Planning Commission, and by ending his 65-minute extempore speech with the sl

MUMBAI: Almost 1.65 million people across the world die due to heart problems brought on by excess intake of salt, said a research analyzing populations from 187 countries. The paper, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on Thursday, found that the average consumption of salt a

Kolkata: The Northeast Frontier Railway’s (NFR) Construction Organisation has started building the world’s tallest girder rail bridge at Noney in Manipur. The bridge is part of the proposed 125-kilometre Jiribam-Tupul railway line to connect Imphal, the capital of Manipur, which is 780 metres a