As political leaders stall Parliament over children’s deaths due to cold in the relief camps in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli, victims living in the camps say that few if any leaders of the parties now protesting have bothered visiting them to find out the conditions they are living in. A report s

Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung will meet BJP's chief ministerial candidate Harsh Vardhan today as he begins formal discussions to try and end the uncertainty over who will form the government in Delhi. On Wednesday, President Pranab Mukherjee called Mr Jung to ask about the Delhi situation

After facing a debacle in three states and Delhi, the Congress on Monday got some good news in Mizoram where it won a two-thirds majority in the Assembly elections, snapping up 33 of 39 seats, bettering its tally, while Opposition Mizo National Front (MNF) secured five and MPC one. The Congress h

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party swayed Muslim voters as much as it affected voters in any other party of the city. However, owing to Narendra Modi being named prime ministerial candidate of BJP, a large section of the community remained committed to Congress, giving the party a face-saver in most Mus

NEW DELHI : Delhi arguably threw up the biggest winners and losers of this round of assembly polls, but at the end of it all it may not have a government in the foreseeable future. AAP made a spectacular debut winning 28 seats, BJP was the single-largest party with 32, and Congress was reduced to

In a strong performance ahead of the next year’s Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday unseated the Congress in Rajasthan, retained power in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, and emerged as the single-largest party in Delhi. The real winner in Delhi, however, was the

The results of the Assembly elections to four key heartland States — Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Delhi — to be announced on Sunday will set the stage for the 2014 general election. BJP leaders, cheered by exit polls predicting the party winning three of the four States and emergin

New Delhi: As Delhi voted in record numbers on Wednesday in polls seen as an indicator of how India will vote in general elections just months away, a political debutant scoffed at by the Congress and the BJP has emerged the unlikely star. The tax officer turned politician Arvind Kejriwal and

GUWAHATI: In a rare act of bravery, 14-year-old Gunjan Sarmah volunteered to be kidnapped in order to save the lives of 10 other kids from their school van at Simaluguri in Sivasagar district on Wednesday. And not just that, she lumbered through dense forest on Thursday along the Assam-Nagaland

A 30-year-old woman was murdered allegedly by her husband who chopped her body into three pieces inside their flat in Bhayander in the district. The murder took place in the high-profile Golden Nest apartment in Bhayander yesterday and the accused - Girish Pote (29) -- was arrested at night, Th

NEW DELHI: Wednesday's unusually high turnout in the national capital, which is used to complacency when it comes to voter enthusiasm, and an array of exit polls predicting huge gains for new entrant Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had the principal players — Congress and BJP - keeping their fingers crossed.

Malakpur village, Shamli:  In a refugee camp of 600 families in Malakpur village in Shamli district neighbouring Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, at least eight lives have been lost in the last month. Six of the dead were children with most of them under the age of four. Abdul Gaffar lost his

Delhi votes on Wednesday to pick a new 70-member Assembly in a triangular fight between the ruling Congress, the BJP and the debutant Aam Aadmi Party amid speculation that the outcome could throw up a hung House. All the three parties have expressed confidence of getting a clear majority. The

BHOPAL: The people's verdict is locked away in EVMs stashed in strong-rooms guarded by paramilitary forces, but 10 days to D-Day, conspiracy theories are afloat. While Congress alleged EVMs could be tampered with, the seizure of an electronic chip on Tuesday from a voting machine at a remote booth i

NEW DELHI: Nearly a year after the role of a juvenile in the gang-rape of Nirbhaya triggered a storm of outrage while the crime itself led to widespread street protests, the government has proposed that youngsters above 16 years of age guilty of heinous crimes be treated on par with adult offend

NEW DELHI: Goa Police on Friday morning raided Tehelka magazine's founder-editor Tarun Tejpal's house in New Delhi in a bid to arrest him but returned empty handed after finding that he was not there. Armed with a non-bailable warrant, the team reached the residence of Tejpal, who has been ac

Terming UPA’s pre-matriculation minority scholarship scheme as “arbitrary and discriminatory,” the Gujarat government has told the Supreme Court that the Rajinder Sachar Committee was unconstitutional, and that its “target was to help Muslims only”. The affidavit — filed in response to the Ce

The very severe cyclonic storm "Lehar” overthe southeast Bay of Bengal moved westwards with a speed of 15 kmph during the past six hours and lay centered over the southeast Bay of Bengal about 360 km west-northwest of Port Blair.  According to IMD the system would intensify further and move w