NEW DELHI: Puri Shankaracharya Swami Adhokshjanand Devtirath on Thursday said that he would go to Varanasi to ask religious leaders to oppose Narendra Modi, whom he held responsible for the 2002 riots in Gujarat.  Speaking to reporters here, the Shankaracharya claimed that Modi was trying to mislea

AHMEDABAD/NEW DELHI: An FIR was lodged against Narendra Modi for violation of the model code of conduct after he displayed a lotus, the BJP's election symbol, before TV cameras and addressed a press conference on the premises of the school where he cast his vote on Wednesday. He also snapped a selfi

CHENNAI: One passenger died and nine others were injured in a bomb blast at an express train stationed at the Chennai Central station on Thursday. The blast took place at around 7.30am on the Guwahati-Bangalore Express. Police said it was a terror attack while it was the train was at platform

New Delhi: Voting is underway in 89 constituencies across seven states and two union territories in the seventh round of the nine phase Lok Sabha elections today. (Round 7 of polls: top 10 facts) While most states witnessed a moderate voter turnout till 12 noon, West Bengal, where 38.3 per cent o

Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of Bengal, unfurled new vitriolic language against Narendra Modi today, stating, "If he becomes PM, the country will be set on fire." Since Sunday, Ms Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress have hurled coarse language at the BJP's prime ministerial candid

NEW DELHI: Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday slammed BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi calling his behaviour 'childish'. "Your aim is to become the Prime Minister of the country, so why do you indulge in childish attacks?" Priyanka said on Tuesday in Amethi referring to Modi's 'shahjada' a

Kolkata: A day after her party labelled Narendra Modi "the butcher of Gujarat,"Mamata Banerjee made a substantial contribution to the onslaught, describing the BJP's prime ministerial candidate as  an "architect of riots" whose "gyan (insight) on development" is not needed in her state. "If he (Modi

AHMEDABAD: Union minister Kapil Sibal raked up alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan on Monday to hit out at Narendra Modi saying the BJP's PM nominee and Amit Shah were being "shielded" despite existence of "clinching" evidence to arrest them. "I want to ask who is shielding Modi and Shah when,

ALIGARH April 25: A Farewell function was organized at the Department of Anesthesiology, J N Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University to felicitate Professor M Masood Hussain Siddiqui, who is retiring on 30th April. Addressing on the occasion, Professor Tariq Mansoor, Principal and CMS, said th

India is likely to experience below-average monsoon rainfall in 2014, if the El Nino weather pattern affects the four-month-long rainy season, the government's weather office said on Thursday. The monsoon is vital for India as half of its farmland lacks irrigation. To cut dependence on rains, Ind

NEW DELHI: With 196 seats still to poll, Congress is far from conceding the election, but is keenly considering post-poll "stop Modi" scenarios where the party will not make its leadership of a coalition a non-negotiable condition. Congress sees its "complete flexibility" about either propping up

NEW DELHI: Midway through the Lok Sabha polls, Congress has launched an aggressive minority outreach, committing itself to "finding a way forward" on quotas for backward Muslims and Scheduled Caste status to all dalit minorities. In its additional manifesto on "empowerment of minorities", Congres

Nearly 40 per cent of the electorate cast their vote today in the first seven hours of polling in 117 constituencies in 11 states and Union Territory of Puducherry in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections, amid stray incidents of violence which left a policeman dead in Assam and 13 others injured i

Mumbai: In an email to students, the principal of the St Xavier's college in Mumbai criticised Narendra Modi's "Gujarat model" of governance and advised - "choose well!" "...all the Human Development Index indicators and the cultural polarization of the population show that Gujarat has had a terr

Representational Photo New Delhi:  Some teachers force children from lower castes and minority religions to clean toilets and sit separately from their classmates as part of "persistent" discrimination in classrooms, a rights group said Tuesday. Human Rights Watch (HRW)  said pupils from margi

Every year nearly one million new cancer cases are diagnosed in India, the prevalence being 2.5 million. With mortalities of 6,00,000-7,00,000 a year, cancer causes six per cent of all adult deaths in the country. The number of deaths per year is projected to shoot up to 1.2 million by 2035, acco

Image Courtesy: TOI NEW DELHI: You could call him the man with a golden gut. Doctors operating on this 63-year-old businessman literally hit a goldmine, finding as many as 12 gold biscuits weighing a total of 396 grams inside his abdomen. The Chandni Chowk businessman had come to the private c

Taking Narendra Modi head on for the first time, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today dismissed as a "myth" the Gujarat model of development and said her state was placed far better in various sectors. In a strong rebuttal to the BJP's Prime Ministerial nominee on his charge that her pa