AHMEDABAD: Around 100 passengers of an Ahmedabad-bound Air India flight from Mumbai had a trying time when the flight's airconditioning stopped working. The passengers later created a ruckus at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport. AI-643 was supposed to fly at 5.50pm from Mumbai on Wed

A recent incident in West Bengal's Malda district left everyone alarmed when seven children died due to an unknown virus infection found in litchis. The litchi syndrome is an infection caused due to a virus that has been attacking litchis, just when the much-awaited summer fruit hit the markets. Thi

The laborious task underway to retrieve bodies of missing students, who were washed away by the strong currents of the Beas on Sunday, may take many more days as several bodies are now feared to have been trapped under big boulders. The river bed has plenty of small and giant boulders, especially

GURGAON: Tauru, the little town 32km from Gurgaon torn apart by a communal clash on Sunday, remained under curfew a day later amid an uneasy calm. In the morning, there were reports of a local businessman's shop being set on fire. "The local administration officials came soon after and called the

MANALI: At least 24 students from an engineering college in Hyderabad were feared drowned in the river Beas near Thalot village in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district after large quantity of water was released from Larji reservoir on Sunday. The students of VNR Engineering College were on a tour to Hi

Nara Chandrababu Naidu, 64, took oath as the first chief minister of the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday at 7.27 pm, thus completing the bifurcation of the state. At a function attended by lakhs of people, Governor E S L Narasimhan administered the oath of office to Naidu on the 70-ac

PUNE: The 1.30pm namaz at the mosque in Unnati Nagar, Hadapsar, on Saturday had the usual gathering but something was different. Many had changed their attire and a handful their appearance — Pathani suits had made way for trousers and shirts and a few young men had shaved off their beards. The b

Greater Noida:  BJP leader and Dadri Nagar Panchayat Chairman Geeta Pandit's husband Vijay Pandit(37) was shot dead allegedly by four unidentified persons in Dadri area on Saturday night, after which a mob set ablaze 16 vehicles near a police station in protest. The assailants came on two motorcy

MUMBAI: Mumbai will enter a world-class era of commuting with the long anticipated inauguration of the Mumbai Metro on Sunday, a top official said here Saturday. RInfra's Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd CEO Abhay Mishra made the announcement at a media conference here on Saturday morning. This is Ind

NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party is in the throes of its biggest crisis yet. A leaked letter by Arvind Kejriwal's right-hand man, Manish Sisodia, to Yogendra Yadav accusing him of "trying to finish off the party or Arvind Kejriwal", provoked another letter being leaked on Friday — this one written by

NEW DELHI: UP holds the dubious distinction of being the worst state in India in terms of law and order, the sheer volume of violent crimes over the past decade suggests. Data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) analysed by ET also shows that worryingly enough, change of government has had

PUNE: It now appears that trouble was brewing in Unnati Nagar near Hadapsar for nearly an hour on Monday evening when a gang of 30 to 40 men drove around the area on their bikes, pelted stones and attacked at least one more person before they targeted Mohsin Mohammed Sadique Shaikh (28) and beat him

AZAMGARH: National award winner actress and former MP Shabana Azmi today said a section of minority was still nervous of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he talked about women, poor and youth but nothing specifically about them. "At the time of elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised

NEW DELHI: India's southern coast could witness the arrival of this year's monsoon in the next day or so after sporadic rains in recent days heralded the arrival of the wet season that is crucial to farmers in Asia's third-largest economy. "Conditions have turned favourable for the monsoon onset

Dombivli, Thane:  A woman conductor on a state transport bus was dragged out of the vehicle, stripped and beaten by a male passenger on the outskirts of Mumbai this morning, police said. The incident took place on a bus which runs between Kalyan and Panvel in the Thane district, at around 8:30 am

New Delhi:  Senior BJP leader and union minister for rural development Gopinath Munde died this morning reportedly of a heart attack after a road accident in Delhi. He was 64. At about 6.20 this morning, Mr Munde was on his way to the Delhi airport when an Indica car crashed into the minister's S

Mallikarjuna Kharge, who was chosen leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha, today said his party would not function as an "opposition for opposition sake" and its approach would be "issue-based". "We will not function as opposition for opposition sake. It (our functioning) will be issue based in the

Telangana is all set to be born as the 29th state of India at the stroke of Sunday midnight. Telangana supporters have planned Agala celebrations. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), which spearheaded the movement for separate state and will form the first government in Telangana Monday, has pai