LUCKNOW: Under attack from opposition parties, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday decided to recommend a CBI probe into the gang rape and murder of two dalit sisters in Badaun. "The chief minister has decided to recommend a CBI probe into Badaun incident as demanded by family

If you think your physician’s handwriting is too hard to decipher for you and your pharmacist, fret not. This may be a thing of the past, as doctors will soon write prescriptions in capital letters only. On a recent directive of the Medical Council of India (MCI), the Ministry of Health and Fa

Leaner, a little younger, and with more women in positions of power — the incoming Council of Ministers is in some ways a change from the outgoing one. The average minister is worth over Rs. 13 crore, however, and at least 14 ministers have criminal cases against them. The average age of the n

NEW DELHI: The first Cabinet meeting of the Modi government on Tuesday decided to constitute a special investigative team (SIT) to dig out black money. The SIT will be headed by a retired Supreme Court judge, M B Shah. The decision on the SIT is in compliance with the Supreme Court directive on blac

May 26, 2014 | Press Release | Bhatkallys news Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC - www.iamc.com), an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India's pluralist and tolerant ethos, has called on all Indians to be vigilant in safeguarding the secular institutions under the NDA (National Democrat

New Delhi: Narendra Damodar Modi, 63, took oath as India's Prime Minister on Monday evening. Almost 4000 people were present at the ceremony held in the forecourt of the magnificent Rashtrapati Bhavan. Lakhs more, including Mr Modi's mother, watched on television. Minutes after he was sworn in a

Bangalore: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may be firmly in saddle with a thumping majority in the Lok Sabha, but it will have to use special skills to win over other parties to get its legislative agenda through in the Rajya Sabha. BJP-led NDA's strength in the Upper House of Parliament does not

NEW DELHI: Encouraged by the overwhelming response to the experiment of running premium trains on dynamic fare pricing, railways has decided to run such trains on 36 new routes in a bid to cater to the rush during summers and also to generate extra revenue. By running premium trains, the transpor

NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: Since the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee opted for a sleek custom-made BMW in 2003, it's been steadily downhill for the grand old lady that had once ruled Indian roads. The common man had given up much earlier, eagerly embracing the zippier Maruti 800 when it was launche

Eleven years ago to the day on Tuesday, Sulaiman Bhai Ajmeri’s wife pleaded with the Gujarat Police that her husband was an innocent mechanic and not a terrorist involved in the attack on the Akshardham Temple in Gujarat. Each time during the 11 years Mr. Sulaiman remembered his wife’s desperate

NEW DELHI: Against the backdrop of debacle in the Lok Sabha election, voices for bringing Priyanka Gandhi to the forefront if politics grew stronger within the Congress party with at least two leaders saying on Friday she is a "big fighter" and has the "natural ability" to connect with people. Ou

New Delhi:  Pakistan has said it will announce today whether its Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will attend Narendra Modi's oath ceremony as India's next Prime Minister on Monday. "He can also nominate someone to represent him. That doesn't violate protocol," a Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesperson

The BJP-led NDA prefers to have a mem­ber of the Congress as the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha to avoid the Narenda Modi government getting into a direct confrontation with three regional players who may form a bloc and stake a claim for the august post. BJP leaders argue they m

New Delhi: Polling for four Rajya Sabha seats in Karnataka and one each in Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram will be held next month as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) looks to shore up its strength in the upper house for smooth passage of bills. Four Rajya Sabha members from Karnataka and one each

PUNE: The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM)'s first experimental real-time monsoon forecast for this year predicts delayed monsoon advancement over the country. Scientists said that consequently the first spell of rainfall will be inadequate and scantier than normal. They said a low pr

Ahmedabad: Gujarat revenue minister Anandiben Patel, 72, is the clear frontrunner in the race to replace Narendra Modi as the chief minister of Gujarat. Mr Modi, who will be sworn in as India's Prime Minister on Monday, is expected to resign as chief minister around 3pm today after attending a speci

JAMMU: Seventeen people were killed and 27 injured when a bus going to the Kashmir valley fell into a deep gorge in the Jammu region Tuesday, an official said. The accident occurred when the bus driver lost control at Digdol on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Ramban district, 170 km from Jammu, an

The fact that the BJP has won a majority on its own in the 16th Lok Sabha has, inevitably, drawn comparisons with previous elections in which parties have won a majority of seats on their own. What has not quite figured in most of these comparisons is the fact that no party has ever before won more