Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day address from the ramparts of the Red Fort was not only a summing up of what his newly re-elected government had accomplished in the last 75 days but also unveiled a powerful social charter going forward, including raising concerns over population explo

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined the government’s plea to re-open the National Register of Citizens (NRC) process in Assam and conduct a sample re-verification of data collected, especially in the border districts of the State where cross-border “infiltration” from Bangladesh is high. A Benc

A fire broke out at a garments godown in East Delhi’s Gandhi Nagar on Tuesday morning. At least 21 fire tenders were rushed to the spot. Nearly half-a-dozen shops were gutted in the fire, the fire department said. No casualties have been reported so far in the blaze, about which the fire depar

The Income Tax department raided 62 locations to bust a tax theft worth Rs 700 crore in Tamil Nadu. The searches were conducted on properties belonging to SNJ Group, which is involved in liquor manufacturing business with bases across Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Goa. As many as 55 plac

New Delhi: Sonia Gandhi was named interim Congress president on Saturday, returning to the helm after almost 20 months. The announcement was made late on Saturday night after the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party’s topmost body, accepted Rahul Gandhi's resignation during its second meet

New Delhi: Former Prime Minister and senior Congress leader Manmohan Singh will file nomination for the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan. The 86-year-old leader will file his nomination on August 13. The seat has been vacant after the death of state BJP president Madan Lal Saini, who was elected to th

The situation in Jammu and Kashmir is peaceful and the newly formed union territory is gradually coming back to normalcy, said Governor Satya Pal Malik after taking stock of the situation. The BJP-led Narendra Modi government earlier this week scrapped Article 370, Article 35A and bifurcated Jammu a

A senior advocate in the Ramjanmabhoomi Babri Masjid land dispute case on Friday opposed daily hearing saying, “it is inhuman, hearing can’t be rushed through”. Friday was the fourth day of day-to-day proceeding in the case, as ordered by the top court after mediation efforts failed. Rajeev Dhawa

New Delhi: After five days of security lockdown in Jammu and Kashmir, phone services and internet were partly restored this morning and restrictions in movement were eased to facilitate Friday prayers. Thousands of security personnel remain positioned across the Kashmir Valley to watch out for any t

  The government will, as it was expected to, announce military decorations for Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman for shooting down a Pakistani F-16 during a dogfight over the Line of Control on February 27 and the Mirage-2000 pilots involved in the operation a day before that to precision

Nine people were killed after a rescue boat overturned in flood-hit Sangli district of Maharashtra on Thursday. Pune divisional commissioner Deepak Mhaisekar said the mishap took place near Brahmanal village in Palus tehsil when the private rescue boat was carrying around 30 to 32 people. “Nine b

New Delhi:Less than an hour before she was rushed to Delhi’s AIIMS in a critical condition, former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj had asked Harish Salve, the lawyer who represented India at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the case pertaining to Kulbhushan Jadhav, to meet her on

The Andhra Pradesh police have detained a 14-year-old minor in conflict with the law, for allegedly murdering an 8-year-old student at a government-run hostel in the state's Krishna district. Dasari Aditya, a Class 3 student, was found in a pool of blood in a washroom of the hostel, which is mean

New Delhi: Six people, including two children, have died and 11 injured in a fire that broke out at a residential building in southeast Delhi late last night. The blaze in the four-storey building in Zakir Nagar, a densely-populated neighborhood near Jamia Millia Islamia University, broke out at ar

Iltija Javed, daughter of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti, has described the government’s decision to remove the special status accorded to Jammu and Kashmir and to reorganise the State into two Union Territories as “completely undemocratic,” reducing Kashmiris to being “second

A woman and her daughter were crushed to death on rail tracks in Mathura on Saturday after they fell from the Trivandrum Express while chasing a thief who stole one of their bags, the police said. Meena Devi, 45, and Manisha, 21, who are from Durgapur in West Bengal, were jolted out of sleep arou

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released the first set of pictures of Earth captured by Chandrayaan-2 Vikram Lander. The images were released on Sunday by ISRO on microblogging site Twitter. Earth has been beautifully captured in the pictures by Chandrayaan-2 LI4 camera. They pi

Muzaffarpur: A class 7 student was stabbed to death inside a school in Muzaffarpur allegedly by a man against whom the victim's mother had registered a complaint for stealing her purse on Thursday. The victim has been identified as Suraj Kumar. "Suraj Kumar was stabbed to death in his school