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

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