An FIR was lodged here on Thursday against nearly 50 celebrities, including Ramchandra Guha, Mani Ratnam and Aparna Sen, who had written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi raising concern over the growing incidents of mob lynching, police said. The case was lodged after an order was p

Rewa: An FIR was registered against unidentified persons for allegedly writing "anti-national" before Mahatma Gandhi’s name on a poster in a museum in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa district. The incident took place on the day the country was celebrating Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary. Accord

Prasar Bharati, India's public broadcaster service that includes Doordarshan, has initiated disciplinary proceedings against R Vasumathi, an Assistant Director of Programme in Chennai. This because she failed to telecast live on DD Podhigai a speech by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Singapore-I

Trichy: Two men wearing tiger and bull masks robbed jewels worth several crores from a popular jewellery showroom in Tamil Nadu's Tiruchirappalli. The masked robbers stole nearly 800 jewels weighing about 30 kg after gaining entry into the Lalithaa jewellery showroom by drilling a side wall Tuesd

Amravati: Babita Tade, who won Rs 1 crore on quiz show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati', has been appointed as the Amravati district ambassador for the Election Commission's SVEEP programme ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly polls, an official said. The Systematic Voters' Education and Electoral Participatio

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday lost his temper with reporters when questioned about the incessant rain and floods in his state, ANI reported. The Janata Dal (United) leader was talking to the press after a survey of the worst flood-hit neighbourhoods of capital city Patna. At least

Security forces have foiled a major terrorist attack in Jammu on Tuesday by recovering RDX from a bus parked near the bus stand in the city. Sources told the Media that 15 kg RDX have been recovered by the security forces from the bus which has arrived in Jammu from Bilawar in Kathua district. It

Lucknow: The police in Uttar Pradesh have been asked to identify Bangladeshis and "other foreigners" so they can be deported, in what many see as its version of the Assam NRC. The move is "very important" for the state's internal security, the UP Director General of Police has said in a letter to al

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal stoked a controversy on Monday when he said that people from outside Delhi are coming to the national capital and availing free healthcare benefits which are meant for residents of Delhi. He singled out people from Bihar saying they come to the capital

Several hundred prisoners, convicted of offences other than murder, rape and corruption, will be released from jails across India on October 2 to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, officials said on Sunday. The number could be nearly 600, and the final list is being prepared by t

The Bajrang Dal group on Saturday asked organisers of traditional garba and dandiya events in Hyderabad to conduct mandatory checks of Aadhaar cards of those participating in the festivities, PTI reported. In an open letter to the organisers, the Hindutva group said that the entry of non-Hindu youth

New Delhi: The government has banned export of onions with immediate effect to check spiraling prices which touched ₹70- ₹80 per kg in the open market. The ban covers all varieties of onions. The Directorate General of Foreign Trade under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry issued the notificat

As you enter the small temple town of Mamallapuram (also known as Mahabalipuram) on the coast of Tamil Nadu, one notices a palpable change in the air. For the next few weeks, Mamallapuram will no longer be the sleepy surfer town loved by tourists and history buffs, but the centre of the world's a

A five-judge Bench led by Justice N.V. Ramana is learnt to have been formed to start hearing from October 1 petitions challenging the Centre's move render Article 370 inoperative that stripped Jammu and Kashmir people of their special privileges, which led to the bifurcation of the State to two unio

Two years after he was first suspended and then jailed for medical negligence, corruption at Gorakhpur’s BRD medical college, a departmental enquiry has absolved Dr Kafeel Khan of all those charges. More than 60 children died at BRD Medical college due to oxygen shortage and Dr Kafeel Khan was ac

Cracking the whip on pollutants, the Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday decided to propose a green tax besides banning single-use plastic. To keep a check on pollution by industrial houses, the state said that it is planning to collect the green tax. Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy took t

The Madras High Court on Thursday issued notice to prison authorities on a petition filed by Robert Payas, one of the seven convicts serving a life term for former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, seeking a 30-day parole to make arrangements for his son's marriage. A division bench of

Twelve people have been killed in rain-related incidents in Pune after unusually heavy downpour lashed the city since late Wednesday night. The rainfall stopped in the early morning hours on Thursday. Police and district administration has so far confirmed 12 deaths -seven from Pune city and five