LUCKNOW/KANPUR/ VARANASI/ALLAHABAD: Eight more patients died in medical colleges across UP in the past 24 hours as residents of super-specialty medical institution like Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences joined the junior doctors' strike which entered its fourth day on Tuesday

The schedule for the Lok Sabha polls will be announced by the Election Commission on Wednesday. With the announcement of poll dates, the Model Code of Conduct for governments and political parties will come into force with immediate effect. The schedule will be announced at a press conference

LONDON: For an average Indian, living costs in Mumbai may be a nightmare. But the newWorldwide Cost of Living 2014 index has thrown up an interesting finding. India's city of dreams has emerged as the world's cheapest city to live in. The analysis takes into account the concept of value of money

Omission of Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's name from a US human rights report was no indication of a change in policy, a US official has reiterated. "There is no change in policy. There's no editing error," State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki told reporte

New Delhi:  Around 50 lakh passengers use the Northern Railways and drink water from the stations. It is highly likely they putting their health at risk. NDTV has accessed an Indian Railway's internal report, which says that the water across Northern Railways, which covers 700-plus stations, is extr

NEW DELHI: Government approved on Friday the proposal to ensure Rs 1,000 minimummonthly pension under a scheme of retirement fund body EPFO that would immediately benefit 28 lakh pensioners. The decision to provide the entitlement under Employees' Pension Scheme-95, run by the Employees' Providen

Image for illustration purposes only Lucknow: An FIR has been filed against the principal of a private college in Moradabad for reportedly refusing to give a Muslim student his admit card for the Class 12 board exams because he had not shaved his beard. The case has been lodged against Wilsoni

Ganderbal: An army soldier on Thursday shot five colleagues dead at point blank range when they were sleeping before committing suicide in Kashmir's Ganderbal district. "A soldier of a Rashtriya Rifles unit ran amok in the wee hours, killing five soldier before killing himself," an army spokesman sa

NEW DELHI: India's navy chief has resigned after a submarine accident off the coast of Mumbai saw two sailors missing and another seven injured, the defense ministry said. "Taking moral responsibility for the accidents and incidents which have taken place during the past few months, the Chief of

Regional parties and the Left Front on Tuesday announced a pre-poll alliance for the Lok Sabha elections to put forward an "alternative” to both Congress and BJP. In the presence of leaders, including H D Deve Gowda, Nitish Kumar, M Thambi Durai and Mulayam Singh, CPM’s Prakash Karat announced the c

New Delhi: Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday said communalism is a bigger problem facing the country than corruption, the main platform of his Aam Aadmi Party and the central theme of much of his politics so far. Addressing an audience comprising prominent Muslim academics and in

New Delhi:  Cooking gas (LPG) dealers on Monday night called off their proposed indefinite strike after oil companies set up a panel to look into their grievances. The All India LPG Distributors Federation and Federation of LPG Distributors of India had jointly given a strike call from tomorrow t

NEW DELHI: Nearly 20,000 people were killed on railway tracks across the country in 2013, Lok Sabha was informed on Thursday. While 19,997 persons died on tracks, 1,63,645 were prosecuted for trespassing last year, minister of state for railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said in a written reply.

NEW DELHI: For a country which till recently had a weak civil society movement, India is now witnessing a boom in the NGO sector. With a population of 1.2 billion, the country could well be the land of opportunities for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with the Central Bureau of Investigation c

Maulana Azad’s Islam was much more accommodative than the contemporary rigid and combative Islam BY : S. IRFAN HABIB It was on this day in 1958 that Maulana Abul Kalam Azad passed away. It was not merely the death of an extraordinary human being but also the death of an idea that sparkled for

94-year-old Rishang Keishing retires after 7 decades in politics It was close to 5p.m. The sun had started setting and in an hour, there would be darkness all around. A man stood silently, taking in the surroundings of a place he had been a part of, on and off, since 1952. A place he said he woul

Bhopal, February 22: Vishwa Hindu Parishad convenor Ashok Singhal said here on Saturday that unless conversions were stopped immediately, the day would not be far off when Hindus would be reduced to a minority in this country. Addressing a press conference, he said it has become "imperative"

PATNA: If you have an internet-enabled device and you are anywhere on the stretch from NIT-Patna on Ashok Rajpath to Danapur, you can now access the internet free of cost. Once known as a backward state, Bihar has made a strong bid for a mention on the world's infotech map as chief minister Nitis