New Delhi: A Delhi-based man has been arrested by CISF personnel at the Indira Gandhi International Airport for allegedly “impersonating” as a pilot of Lufthansa airlines to escape long queues and security checking, officials said on Tuesday. Rajan Mahbubani (48) was wearing the pilot’s uniform w

Hyderabad: Depressed at not clearing the entrance examination for the post of constable in the state police, two youngsters committed suicide in separate instances at Bantwaram and Yalal in Vikarabad district. According to the Bantwaram police, A Kumar, 25, a graduate, took the recruitment last y

New Delhi: Military-like uniform for marshals in the Rajya Sabha, which debuted on the opening day of the winter session of parliament on Monday to much criticism, is being reconsidered. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, the chairman of the Rajya Sabha, declared today that he had asked his secretariat

New Delhi: As many as 2,391 people lost their lives and over eight lakh houses were damaged during the monsoon this year, Union minister of state for home Nityanand Rai said in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. When the rains and floods hit different states, peak deployment of the National Disaster Respo

New Delhi: Beyond the pale of the tailored court room structure, a judge who talks about artificial intelligence, social media and most modern technologies - that's new Chief Justice of India SA Bobde for you. A fourth generation lawyer but a first generation judge who keeps keen interests in pho

“No women will make an attempt to go to the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple this year,” says a senior police officer on bandobast duty at Pamba below Sabarimala in Keala. Ask any of the officers if they are expecting women to make an attempt to visit the temple, they would all give the same reply. The pol

Mumbai: The massive political turmoil in Maharashtra that has divided two of the country's oldest allies has also triggered a revision of seating arrangements in the Rajya Sabha. The Shiv Sena, which walked out of the Modi government at the centre this week, will sit in the opposition benches in the

In the wake of widespread condemnation from political parties, civil society organisations and intellectuals, the Odisha government on Saturday admitted to having committed a mistake by describing Mahatma Gandhi's death as ‘accidental’ in a brochure and withdrew it. The two-page Aama Bapuji: Eka

Mirzapur: A case has been registered against a senior Banaras Hindu University official for allegedly removing a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) flag from its south campus in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur district, officials said on Thursday. A case under various sections has been registered at the

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Thursday launched the ‘Nadu-Nedu’ programme to introduce English medium from Classes 1 to 6 in state-run schools and said there will be “some difficulties” in implementing the scheme, but these will be overcome. He also announced that the gove

The Express Avenue Mall in Chennai's Royapettah is going to pay the family of 25-year-old Arunkumar, who died in a septic tank at the basement of the establishment, a compensation of Rs 10 lakh. In addition to this, the mall's General Manager (Plumbing), Murugesan, has been summoned by the police on

In a shocking case of negligence from Andhra Pradesh, a six-year-old boy died in Panyam of Kurnool district after falling into a vessel of piping hot sambar. The incident happened at the hostel of Vijayanikethan English Meduim High School where he is studying. The deceased Purushotham Reddy (6),

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