Ahmedabad, Jan 9: A private school in the city had to face angry parents after it asked students to write congratulatory postcards to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for bringing in the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The trustee of Little Star School in Maninagar area said later that it was only a wri

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Thursday, brainstorm with top economists at NITI Aayog to discuss the economic slowdown and set the base for government agenda going forward. Top cabinet ministers including home minister Amit Shah, road minister Nitin Gadkari, commerce minister Piyush

The country is witnessing troubled times and petitions in Supreme Court should not exacerbate the situation, Chief Justice of India SA Bobde observed on Thursday on an unusual petition that wants the top court to declare the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act as constitutional. Parli

پرانی دہلی کی خوایتن نے شہریت قانون اور این آر سی کے خلاف آج ایک احتجاجی مظاہرہ کیا اور پرامن انداز میں ایک مارچ نکالا جو کہ پرانی دہلی واقع ہمدرد دواخانہ اور چاؤڑی بازار ہوتے ہوئے جامع مسجد تک پہنچا۔ اس مارچ میں خواتین کی بڑی تعداد نے حصہ لیا جب کہ سوشل میڈیا پر شیئر ویڈیو میں کچھ مرد حض

New Delhi: The Delhi Police is capable of maintaining law and order but it gets orders from above to “just stand there and not take any action”, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Tuesday, referring to the recent violence at JNU and Jamia Millia University. Addressing the Aam Aadmi Party’s (A

Actor Deepika Padukone drove down to Jawaharlal Nehru University to join a protest by students against the recent violence on campus on Tuesday evening, triggering a sharp reaction from some Bharatiya Janata Party leaders including one who suggested that people boycott her movies. Deepika Padukon

New Delhi: BJP president Amit Shah on Monday said that over 52 lakh missed calls from verifiable phone numbers have been received on a special number in support of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). "52,72,000 missed calls have been received on a special number in support of Citizenship Amend

New Delhi: Hindu Raksha Dal, a far-Right group, has claimed responsibility for the brutal assault on teachers and students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) by a masked mob on January 5. Tomar’s admission comes at a time when a video, which has now gone viral, shows ABVP’s Delhi Joint Secretar

Masked goons, armed with sticks and stones, barged into Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University campus on Sunday evening and beat up students and teachers, spreading chaos and terror. Nineteen students, all from Left-backed groups, and five teachers were injured and hospitalised. The Left

Delhi Assembly elections to be held on February 8, the Election Commission of India announced on Monday. The counting of votes will be done on February 11. The term of the 70-member Delhi assembly will end on February 22 and a new House has to be constituted before that. Chief minister Arvind

Firozabad (UP), Jan 3: Congress Thursday charged Firozabad police with initiating action against the dead in connection with the anti-citizenship law protest in the district on December 20. Police issued notices under CrPC sections 107 and 116 to the dead and those around 90 years of age and aske

The BJP is pulling out all stops to dispel doubts about the provisions of Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA. On Friday, party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Anil Jain said the BJP has started a door-to-door campaign that will reach out to three crore families to clear perceptions about CAA. “The CAA

United Nations: Nearly 400,000 babies were born around the world on New Year's Day with India recording the highest number of these births worldwide at 67,385, the UN children's agency said. An estimated 392,078 babies were born around the world on New Year's Day, according to UNICEF. Of this, an

New Delhi: The death of babies at a hospital in Rajasthan's Kota has set off a political storm. With the BJP and Mayawati criticising the Congress-ruled state and the Centre showing concern, the matter has reached Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. At least nine infants died in the last two days of Dec

New Delhi: A firefighter was killed at a battery factory in west Delhi's Peera Garhi after it caught fire and the structure collapsed following an explosion, officials said. Two firefighters and a worker have been rescued. They suffered minor injuries, officials said. The police said 14 others are i

Bengaluru: Four men from the Indian Air Force have been selected to undergo training for India’s first human spaceflight mission, ISRO chief K Sivan said on Wednesday as he declared 2020 as the year of Gaganyaan and Chandrayaan-3. Addressing a press conference at the ISRO headquarters here, Sivan

Mumbai: A total of 36 ministers were inducted in Maharashtra Cabinet as part of the much-delayed expansion. The NCP leader Ajit Pawar took oath as Deputy Chief Minister, Aaditya Thackeray and 34 others were sworn-in as ministers on Monday. According to highly placed sources, Aaditya Thackeray and

Beefing up surveillance, the Indian Navy has issued orders to ban the use of social media by its personnel to curb cyber snooping, after an espionage racket with alleged links to Pakistan operating through Facebook, was busted on December 20. Apart from banning the use of social media websites an