NEW DELHI: Booking rail tickets through the IRCTC website is going to be hassle-free for now. The new e-ticketing system developed by Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) would allow booking of 7200 tickets per minute against 2000 tickets through the existing system. The system, develope

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government over recurring incidents of communal violence and "deliberate” attempts to divide people on religious lines.  She was speaking at a Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee

NEW DELHI: Flooding in eastern India has killed 45 people and displaced more than 300,000 in the past week, a senior official said Monday, adding that water levels were now gradually receding. Residents have been sheltering in relief centers in Orissa since being evacuated from their homes when tor

Speculation was rife on Sunday that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee may be named for the country’s highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna. Though the government has not officially announced it, rumour mills started soon after it became known that the Home

An exuberant Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who completed 75 days in office on Saturday, hit back at his detractors, both local and global, by justifying the tough decisions taken by his government in the interest of the people.  Speaking at the BJP National Council meeting, the first mega party c

New Delhi:  Inflation cannot be controlled in a day and the situation on the ground has improved: This was what Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a group of parliamentarians from four southern states when they met him yesterday. It was also the first time Mr Modi spoke out on the subject that has la

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