The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received Rs 743 crore in donations above Rs 20,000 in financial year 2018-19, ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, according to the party’s declaration to the Election Commission of India (ECI) on October 31 that was made public on Monday. This is a lot more than what

MUMBAI: Imposition of President's rule in Maharashtra on Tuesday is the first instance in the 59-year-old history of the state when Article 356 has been invoked due to inability of political parties to form a government after an assembly election. Overall, this is third time that Maharashtra has

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday slammed former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and Vice President Venkaiah Naidu for opposing the move to turn all government-run schools into English medium schools. "Where did your children study?" asked Jagan Mohan Reddy to Vice Pres

A week after BSNL launched its Voluntary Retirement Scheme, over 70,000 employees have opted for the scheme. P K Purwar, Chairman and MD of BSNL told PTI that the response for the VRS scheme has been strong across the board. A Hindu Business Line report pegs the number of employees opting for VRS at

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Monday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and went on an all-out attack against the party. Raut also said that Shiv Sena is ready to form the government in Maharashtra with Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Holding a press conference in the morning,

At least five persons were injured when two slow-moving trains were involved in a collision at the Kacheguda Railway station in Hyderabad on Monday. Citing preliminary information, railway sources said the incident involved Lingampalli-Falaknuma Multi Modal Transport System (MMTS) local train and

Saying that the Supreme Court’s unanimous verdict had marked a “new dawn” for a new India, PM Modi said that it has also shown the world how alive and strong India’s democracy is. The Supreme Court on Saturday ruled that the disputed land in Ayodhya would be given to a trust, that will be put tog

Hyderabad: AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday said the Supreme court verdict on the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi land dispute was a “victory of belief over facts.” The Hyderabad MP, responding to the apex court verdict, also said he was not satisified with the ruling. The supreme court i

Chennai: Superstar Rajinikanth on Friday said the BJP has not invited him to join the party, but insisted efforts were being made to paint him with "saffron", the idealogical colour the national party is associated with. Attempts were being made to paint both himself and Thiruvalluvar with saff

Malappuram: A contract employee of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), who had not been paid wages for the past 10 months, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in the office here on Thursday, police said. Ramakrishnan, hailing from Vandoor in the district, had been working as a part-time s

Four states – two on the west coast and two on the east— were on alert on Wednesday after weather officials predicted impact from two cyclones that are developing in the two seas surrounding the Indian subcontinent – the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. According to India Meteorological Departm

The winds blowing from the Mediterranean Sea and their interaction with Maha Cyclone brought the first snowfall of the season in higher reaches of Kashmir on Wednesday, bringing down the temperature across the Himalayan Valley. From early morning, rains lashed most parts of the Valley, including

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) in collaboration with Phoenix Medical Systems on Tuesday launched India's first indigenously-designed 'Standing Wheelchair. The standing wheel chair branded as Arise enables a differently-abled person requiring a wheelchair to shift from sitting to

A BJP leader on Tuesday said that Pakistan and China should be blamed for the high levels of pollution in the national capital region and adjacent areas and alleged either of the two neighbouring countries could have released poisonous gases into India. “Ye jo zehreeli hawa aa rahi hai, zehreeli

More than 5,000 youths and political workers, detained as part of the clampdown in Kashmir since August 5, have been released, even as the Valley marked three months of spontaneous shutdown on Monday. Fresh police data show that about 6,300 people, including political leaders, had been rounded up

The Agra District Administration has installed two air purifier machines at the gates of the mughal era monument Taj Mahal to combat air pollution in the region. Sharing details of the initiative, RK Rathi, Executive Engineer, Agra Municipal Corporation said, “An agency has been directed to do me

A latest map of India released by the Centre after the abrogation of Article 370 has triggered a row, as Amaravati, the capital of Andhra Pradesh was missing from it. The new map was issued after reorganisation of the new union territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, which was officially d

Two judges of the Supreme Court on Monday explored various options to quickly improve the national capital Delhi’s toxic air that the court opined was killing people because various government agencies weren’t doing their job. At one point, Justice Arun Mishra, who was attempting to drive home the p