Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath urged every household in Jharkhand to contribute Rs 11 and a ‘shila’ (brick) for the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya. He made the remarks while addressing an election rally on Friday. “Very soon the construction of Ram Temple will begin in Ayo

A day after Opposition members in Lok Sabha raised the issue of lotus being printed on new passports, the Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said it was part of the enhanced security features to identify fake passports and involves using other national symbols as well on rotation. Raising t

NEW DELHI : The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 received President Ram Nath Kovind's nod late Thursday, and hence became an Act. The President's assent comes amid intense outrage across Assam and Tripura, where curfew has been extended indefinitely in some parts. The Army was also deployed to

New Delhi: The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) moved the Supreme Court on Thursday challenging the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, a day after it was passed in the Rajya Sabha completing the legislative process for giving Indian citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangl

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said there should be an “impartial inquiry” into the encounter killings of the four men accused in the gangrape and murder of a veterinarian in Telangana. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde was hearing two public interest litigations see

A two-month-old ailing child died on way to a hospital when the ambulance carrying the baby got stuck in a road blockade, while about 40 people were injured in clashes in three places of Tripura during an 11- hour bandh to protest against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill on Tuesday, poli

The Gujarat government has tabled the final part of the Justice Nanavati-Mehta Commission report on the 2002 riots, in the Assembly on Wednesday. The report deals with post-Godhra violence in which more than 1,000 people were killed in the widespread communal riots across the State. The Commissio

With news of a dearth of executioners possibly delaying the hanging of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case doing the rounds, a Tamil Nadu police officer has written to authorities, volunteering to do the job. Head constable S Subash Srinivasan wrote to the Director General of Prisons of Tihar Jai

With Christmas around the corner, cybersecurity firm McAfee on Tuesday revealed that 56.1% Indians have fallen victim to discount scams by clicking on malicious links during holiday shopping online. The year-end festivities present a variety of threats to consumers shopping online, with more than

In a tragic incident, highlighting the onion crisis in Andhra Pradesh, a 65-year-old man waiting in the queue to purchase subsidized onions at the rythu bazaar collapsed and died allegedly due to cardiac arrest. The incident took place on Monday in Gudiwada town of Krishna district. The victim wa

New Delhi: The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which seeks to give Indian nationality to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan facing religious persecution there, was introduced in Lok Sabha by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday. According to the proposed legisla

For the first time in the state, a zero FIR was registered at the Subedari police station in Warangal. The zero FIR is a document that can be registered by any police station for a cognizable offence, without bothering about whether the case is in their jurisdiction or not. The FIR was registered

New Delhi: In one of the worst fire accidents in the city, 43 people were killed after a massive blaze ripped through a four-storey building housing illegal manufacturing units in north Delhi's Anaj Mandi area on Sunday morning. The incident is the second most severe fire in the national capital

New Delhi: The government has spent Rs 193 crore to renovate and repair bungalows of MPs in the past four years. In a written response to a question, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri informed the Lok Sabha saying that there is no expenditure limit prescribed for such renov

In a sudden development in the gangrape and murder case of a vet in Hyderabad, the four accused in the case – Areef, Shiva, Naveen and Chennakeshavulu – have been shot dead by the Telangana police in a reported encounter. Police said that the accused, who were taken to the scene of the crime for a r

Dharavi: The Shiv Sena is grappling with a miffed Bharatiya Janata Party following the Maharashtra political staccato after the former scrapped its ‘Mahayuti’ alliance with the ruling party at the Centre and formed a coalition ‘Maha Vikas Aghadi’ government with the Nationalist Congress Party and Co

P Chidambaram, arrested from his Jor Bagh house in central Delhi in August, was granted bail by the Supreme Court on Wednesday in the money laundering case linked to the INX Media case. Economic offences fall under the category of grave offences but bail should not be denied in all economic offen

At least four soldiers were trapped in two separate incidents of snow avalanches near the Line of Control in north Kashmir, officials said on Wednesday. A snow avalanche hit an Army post in Tangdhar area of Kupwara district on Tuesday afternoon where at least two soldiers were trapped. Search