KAKINADA: In a major blast in a gas pipeline 14 people were burned alive and 15 others received severe burns at Nagaram village of Mamidikuduru mandal of East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh on Friday morning. Villagers woke up to deafening noise and huge flames after the pipeline belonging t

NEW DELHI: Accusing the government of ordering the CBI to dig up dirt on him and expressing disappointment with the judiciary for letting him down, former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium on Wednesday withdrew his consent to be appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court. In a nine-page letter t

Chapra:  Four people were killed after the New Delhi-Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express derailed near Bihar's Chapra town in the early hours of Wednesday, when most passengers were sleeping. Nine people have been seriously injured in the incident that the Railways Ministry has blamed on sabotage by Maoists.

The government on Friday pushed through a steep hike in rail passenger and freight fares, in the first dose of a "bitter medicine" Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned of having to administer to revive Asia's third-largest economy. From June 25, rail passenger fares will increase by 14.2 per c

NEW DELHI: Faced with all-round protests, the Modi government is considering recalibrating suburban railway fares in Mumbai and elsewhere in order to stagger the burden of last week's massive hike over phases instead of heaping all of it on the commuter in one go. On a day when Shiv Sena slammed

Kolkata:  The passengers of a Kolkata Metro train had to spend nearly two hours inside a tunnel this morning when a south-bound non-AC metro rake developed snag after soon leaving Park Street station. Metro Railway spokesperson R N Mahapatra said that the snag developed at 11.25 am as the train e

Domestic LPG price may see a hike of Rs 10 per cylinder if the government decides to accept "strong” recommendations made by the Petroleum Ministry to offset the rising fuel subsidy burden. The news is equally bad for piped cooking gas consumers. A decision on increasing the price of natural gas

Samajwadi Party workers block a train in protest against hike in railway fares, in Allahabad on Saturday. New Delhi: Angry demonstrators blocked railway tracks and burned effigies of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday to protest a steep hike in train fares, seen as the government’s firs

NEW DELHI: In a pre-budget move, cash-strapped railways on Friday effected a steep across-the-board hike of 14.2 per cent in passenger fares in all classes and a 6.5 per cent increase in freight rates to garner Rs 8,000 crore a year. The decision, which will come into effect from June 25, marks i

(Relatives of abducted youths on their way to meet the Union home minister in New Delhi, in Jalandhar.) AMRITSAR: Most of the 40 Punjabi youths stuck in Iraq reached there allegedly through travel agents who with illegal recruitment syndicates operating from the Gulf countries trapped them using

NEW DELHI: In a move to target government welfare schemes and subsidies on citizens of the country, the Union home ministry has asked the Registrar General of India (RGI) to identify the 'citizens' and 'non-citizens' while preparing the National Population Register (NPR). The NPR authorities will un

NEW DELHI: Around 40 Indians working on projects near the Iraqi city of Mosul were kidnapped by suspected ISIS militants when they were being evacuated from the area ravaged by the war between the Shia-dominated government in Baghdad and Sunni jihadis. "Despite best efforts we are not able to con

The economy does not seem to be swaying to the Modi government’s "achhe din” tune, as the latest official figures indicate that the prices of essential commodities and food items have risen the sharpest in the last five months. The wholesale price inflation in May touched 6.01 per cent as against

The government is exploring options to evacuate nearly 100 Indians stranded in the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Tikrit, which have fallen to the advancing militants of a jihadist organisation linked to al-Qaeda. With the Iraqi government forces supported by civilian volunteers struggling to repel th

In a grisly reminder of the tragedy that struck the holy shrine of Kedarnath almost a year ago, killing thousands, more bodies have been recovered from the area. Skeletal remains of 21 bodies have been recovered from densely forested areas near Jungle Chatti, around 14 km before Kedarnath, over t

New Delhi: Famous freedom fighter, poet and journalist Maulana Hasrat Mohani was honoured today with the release of a commemorative postage stamp. Vice President of India Hamid Ansari released the stamp today in New Delhi. Addressing on the occasion, Ansari said that Maulana Hasrat Mohani was an

NEW DELHI: Retaining your mobile phone number while shifting cities — say from Delhi to Mumbai or Chennai to Kolkata — is set to become a reality. National mobile number portability (MNP) — that allows you to keep your number while moving base — is set to be rolled out with the measure getting an in

Raipur:  Six people including two Deputy General Managers are dead and 34 sustained injuries after a gas leak occurred at the Bhilai Steel Plant in Chhattisgarh on Thursday. Four plant workers are also among the dead. Of the injured, 11 people are admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). At