Waterlogged railway track near Kurla MUMBAI: Strong rain lashed the city on Wednesday, bringing citizens much-needed respite from the heatwave. The suburbs were the bigger beneficiary than the island city. While the Colaba weather station recorded 17.2mm of rain from 8.30am to 8.30pm, the Santa C

(Reuters) - India summoned a senior U.S. diplomat on Wednesday to explain reports that the U.S. National Security Agency was authorised to spy on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party before he took office, and to seek assurances this would not happen in future. The U.S. State Department said it w

Chief Justice of India RM Lodha has slammed Modi govt over the Gopal Subramanium row. NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India RM Lodha has hit out at Narendra Modi government for rejecting the candidature of former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium as SC judge. "The first thing I had taken objecti

NEW DELHI: India's operation in strife-torn Iraq is fast taking the shape of a full-scale evacuation of all Indians. Evacuation is being carried out not only from Sunni-controlled troubled areas, but also from Shia-dominated areas that are relatively peaceful, indicating that New Delhi now believes

NEW DELHI: India has made a fresh request to Switzerland seeking bank details and names of Indians having unaccounted money in Swiss banks, as the government expands its efforts to combat the menace of black money. The latest request has been made by the finance ministry after a Swiss governm

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences. NEW DELHI: Top cardiologists of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here have decided to start an initiative called the Society for Less Investigative Medicine (SLIM) — a movement that aims to take on the growing menace of excessive med

Rescuers search for survivors in the debris of an under-construction building which collapsed in Porur near Chennai on Saturday Chennai:  Nine people have died and 25 are still feared trapped under the debris of an 11-storey under-construction building that collapsed near Chennai on Saturday even

A major fire broke out in a building at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) station here on Friday evening, partially disrupting suburban train services during rush hour, but no casualty was reported. Officials from Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), whose headquarters are located opp

NEW DELHI: Congress on Friday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his government's completion of a month, saying his work involved the rail fare hike, rising sugar prices and a policy that would see regular hike in prices of petroleum products. The party took a dig at Modi for his comment ab

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