NEW DELHI: Bracing for the big exercise, the Election Commission is all set to hold Lok Sabha elections starting mid-April and spread it over at least five phases till early May. The much-awaited announcement for the polls is likely to be made by the end of February or early March, for which work

After its stunning debut in Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Admi Party (AAP) is expected to chalk out its plans for the national elections today. The 23-member AAP National Executive will meet at the Constitution Club in Delhi this morning to discuss its plans and strategies for the general elections,

Thane:  27 persons, including 13 women, were killed when a Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation bus fell into a ravine off Malshej ghat after colliding with a truck in Thane district of Maharashtra. The bus was carrying 38 passengers. Eleven passengers, who were seriously injured, were ad

It surely was an unusual setting for such a high-level official meeting. Seated in the living room of his modest apartment at Kaushambi, a suburb of Delhi, where Arvind Kejriwal and his family have been staying for around a decade, was the chief minister, sitting cross-legged on his sofa at home, a

Muzaffarnagar:  Top Uttar Pradesh bureaucrats are visiting relief camps in Muzaffarnagar this morning to try and convince people to go back home so that the camps, set up to shelter those made homeless by the communal riots in September, can now be dismantled. Officials made similar visits in the ne

NEW DELHI: Moving at a feverish pitch to fulfill the second most important of his poll promises, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal gave 80% of the capital's electricity consumers cause to ring in the new year with much cheer. They will be paying half of what they had to pay so far with the tariff for c

After ending the capital’s VIP culture, the Arvind Kejriwal-led government on Monday fulfilled the Aam Aadmi Party’s first big electoral promise, announcing 666 litres of free water supply every day to each household with functional water meters. This amounts to roughly 34 buckets of water to a f

Chikmagalur: Tension prevailed in the early hours of Saturday in the city over the alleged desecration of a place of worship on M G Road. Some miscreants allegedly beheaded a piglet and threw its head into the sacred place. The passage of the shrine was smeared with blood. A religious head, who noti

AHMEDABAD: Narendra Modi may have felt "liberated and at peace" by a court's endorsement of the 2002 clean chit, but the pogrom's actual victims say his words offer them neither solace not liberation from trauma. After the verdict was delivered, Modi posted a blog in which he said he was "shaken to

New Delhi:  Nine senior bureaucrats, including the CEO of the Delhi Jal Board, have been transferred by Arvind Kejriwal, who took charge of the Delhi government on Saturday. On his first day in office as Delhi's new chief minister, Mr Kejriwal worked for six straight hours. At around 1:30 pm, the

Heralding a new era of politics of governance, Arvind Kejriwal took over as the Chief Minister of Delhi promising a corruption-free government and appealed to parties including Congress and BJP to support his government. In a warning to his minsters and partymen, he said they should not get arrog

The driver stopped the train at around 3.20 a.m. near Kothacheruvu railway station after he observed flames coming out of an air-conditioned coach. [caption id="attachment_48191" align="alignleft" width="476"] The map of Kothacheruvu where an airconditioned coach of Bangalore-Nanded express caugh

26 Dec 2013 | Press Release USA: Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC - www.iamc.com), an advocacy organization dedicated to preserving India's pluralist and tolerant ethos, has called into question a dubious verdict of the lower court in the Narendra Modi Gujarat pogroms case. A Magistrate'

Around 15,000 km of state highways and district roads will be upgraded under various state and Central government-sponsored schemes. Speaking at the launch of phase-2 of the State Highway Development Project on Thursday, Public Works Minister H C Mahadevappa said that the work will commence from

Muzaffarnagar: A three-year old child has died reportedly due to cold in a private riot relief camp in neighbouring Shamli district, an organiser said on Monday. Uves, died on Sunday due to cold at Manna Majra village under the Kairana police station, Kari Alemgir, organiser of the camp, said.

Arvind Kejriwal today said his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had "no alliance" with any party, amid reports of a Congress rethink on external support to his government. The chief minister designate, who has turned down any security cover or a bungalow that comes with his new role, also said, "I don't need s

New Delhi:  People may soon be able to use SMS communication with government departments as a documentary proof while utilising citizen-services for making payments, registrations and various other schemes. The Centre today launched a platform with about 241 applications for the public after comp

WAGAH: Director General Military Operations of Pakistan and India met at the Wagah border to work out a mechanism to ease tension and ensure peace at the Line of Control (LoC). The Pakistani side was led by Director General Military Operations (DGMO) Major General Aamer Riaz while the Indian side