New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said in Lok Sabha that even Jawaharlal Nehru had wanted Indian citizenship for religious minorities from Pakistan as he hit out at the Congress while defending the amended citizenship law. Replying to a debate on Motion of Thanks to the Presiden

At least seven people, including three children, were killed on Thursday after allegedly inhaling poisonous gas leaking from a chemical factory in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur district, officials said. Preliminary probe suggested the gas leaked from the pipeline in the chemical factory in Biswan and t

Two major counterfeit currency printing gangs were busted by the Hyderabad police on Tuesday with sleuths of the Commissioner's Task Force - North Zone and South Zone -- making arrests. The North Zone team seized counterfeit currency of about Rs. 9,27,000 and other incriminating material after re

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced in parliament a trust to oversee the construction of a Ram Temple in Ayodhya, as ordered by the Supreme Court. "I am pleased to announce that a significant decision has been taken to follow the directives of the Supreme Court. As per the dir

New Delhi: Air India flight crew that brought over 600 Indians from China’s Wuhan have been sent on a week-long holiday, an Air India spokesperson said. About 647 Indians and 7 Maldives citizens have been brought to India from Wuhan, China in two special Air India flights. Air India’s 64 crew

New Delhi: The government's new budget is unlikely to drag the country out of its worst slowdown in more than a decade as it has proposed only moderate spending increases and small cuts in personal taxes, economists said on Sunday. They said there was a risk the government might miss its fiscal def

In a surprise move, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a new, optional, individual Income Tax regime in her Budget speech on Saturday. The tax rates have been reduced to a large extent under this new regime – however, those opting to file taxes under the new slabs will not be able t

New Delhi: A man has been arrested in south Delhi's Shaheen Bagh for opening gunfire in the locality where women of all ages have been protesting against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act since December. According to eyewitnesses, the man, who identified himself as Kapil Gujjar, opened

An armed man was detained on Thursday after he brandished a pistol and fired at students of Jamia Millia Islamia university in Delhi, who were demonstrating against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA, police said. The man also fired at the protesters, news agency Reuters reported, in which on

India on Thursday reported its first positive case of novel coronavirus (nCoV). The Union ministry of health and family welfare in an official statement said a student from Kerala, who was studying in Wuhan University and travelled to India, has tested positive for the virus. “The patient has tes

NEW DELHI : Television anchor and journalist Arnab Goswami’s ordeals do not seem to be getting over. The Republic TV founder encountered comedian Kunal Kamra yet again on his flight back from Lucknow on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Kamra had accosted him when flying to the Uttar Pradesh capital, filming t

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday raised the upper limit for allowing abortion from the present 20 weeks to 24 weeks and will be introducing a bill in Parliament for the same. The Cabinet approved the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill, 2020 to amend the Medical Termination of Pregnan

Coimbatore: A city hospital has removed more than half kg of human hair besides plastic pieces like empty shampoo packets from a 13-year-old girl’s stomach. The girl, a 7th standard student, complained of frequent stomach ache for the last few months and the parents, took her to the private VGM H

New Delhi: After Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur, West Delhi BJP MP Parvesh Verma on Monday openly threatened Shaheen Bagh protesters saying that it will take the BJP only an hour to clear off the protests in the area. "If the BJP comes to power in Delhi on February 11, we will clear

Bihar on Monday reported its first suspected case of rapidly spreading novel coronavirus as it isolated a 29-year-old research scholar, who came home from China’s Tianjin last week, health officials said. The woman, who was reluctant to be admitted to the Patna Medical College Hospital (PMCH) in

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The ruling LDF in Kerala organised a 620-km long human chain from Kasaragod in north Kerala to Kaliyikkavila in the southernmost part of the state against the Citizenship Amendment Act on Republic Day. The human chain had the participation of an estimated 60 to 70 lakh peopl

Aligarh: AMU Vice Chancellor Tariq Mansoor was on Sunday heckled by a group of students during his Republic Day speech here soon after he termed as "unfortunate" the recent happenings on the campus and said peaceful protests will be allowed on any issue within the ambit of law. The incident occur

NEW DELHI : India marked its 71st Republic Day on Sunday with a parade showcasing some of its newly acquired capabilities and military hardware, both homegrown and like the anti-satellite missile as well as bought from abroad like US made heavy lift Chinook and the anti-tank attack Apache helicopter