New Delhi: Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group will withdraw the defamation suit filed against Congress and newspaper National Herald. The Rs 5,000-crore civil defamation suits were filed by Anil Ambani’s Reliance in an Ahmedabad Court against Congress leaders and Herald journalists over their statements a

Track and field athlete Gomathi Marimuthu, who recently bagged the 800m gold at the Asian Athletics Championship, faces the prospect of losing her medal and a four-year-ban after media reports stated that she had tested positive for a banned substance. On Tuesday, a news report in the Deccan Herald

Itanagar: Suspected NSCN (IM) militants on Tuesday gunned down an assembly poll candidate of the NPP and six others, including two security personnel, in Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh, a top official said. Tirong Aboh, a sitting MLA from Khonsa West constituency, was seeking a re-election f

Leaders of 22 opposition parties met the Election Commission officials on Tuesday over reports of alleged tampering of voting machines. They demanded that if any discrepancy is found during VVPAT verification, 100 per cent counting of the paper slips of all polling stations in that assembly segment

Kolkata: The BJP on Sunday accused the Trinamool Congress (TMC) of widespread violence in the last phase of the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal, and demanded repolling at several booths in eight out of the nine constituencies. Over 72 per cent of voters of the over 1.49 crore electorate exerci

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday rejected the predictions of exit polls and said that he will wait till May 23 for the "real results". "I believe the exit polls are all wrong. In Australia last weekend, 56 different exit polls proved wrong. In India many people don't tel

The official results of the 20 Lok Sabha constituencies in Kerala will be out only after 8 pm on May 23, said Chief Electoral Officer Teeka Ram Meena. Speaking to the media on Saturday, Teeka Ram Meena said that there will be 29 counting locations, which will include postal ballots and electronic

Residents of Tara Jivapur village in Uttar Pradesh’s Chandauli district alleged that three men who claimed to be from the BJP had “forcefully” applied ink to their fingers and gave them Rs 500 on Saturday in a bid to prevent them from voting in Sunday’s seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha elections

Stones and eggs were thrown by two persons at the dais where actor-politician Kamal Haasan addressed an election rally at Aravakuruchi in Tamil Nadu. The two, who were taken into custody by the police, threw stones and eggs at Haasan when he was coming down the dais after addressing an election r

The Election Commission on Thursday ordered repoll at a booth in the Chandni Chowk parliamentary constituency. The decision was taken on the basis of a report from the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer that the Presiding Officer at booth no. 32 forgot to delete the “test votes” cast during the mock p

Nagpur: A man allegedly found a dead lizard in a food item served at the snacks major Haldiram’s outlet in Nagpur, a Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) official said on Wednesday. The incident took place at the outlet located at Ajani square on Tuesday morning. The picture of the dead lizard fou

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday stated that he “would never forgive” BJP’s Bhopal candidate Pragya Singh Thakur for her comments praising Nathuram Godse, Mahatma Gandhi's assassin. The BJP has initiated a flurry of disciplinary action against its leaders for laudatory comments on Godse.

Vizianagaram: The police on Wednesday arrested three students who were allegedly transporting cannabis in a car from Araku Valley to Visakhapatnam. Kothavalasa Circle Inspector S Srinivas Rao said, "The police has arrested three BTech students and seized 10-kilogram ganja, three cell phones and a

In the wake of violence in West Bengal, the Election Commission on Wednesday took an unprecedented step of curtailing poll campaign in the state by a day as it ordered stoppage of electioneering from 10 pm on Thursday on the remaining 9 Lok Sabha constituencies going to the polls on May 19. The E

The Indian Navy will for the first time conduct an entrance exam for engineering graduates seeking to join the service as officers. The first Indian Navy Entrance Test (Officers) will be held in September 2019 at centers across the country for screening candidates who aspire to join the navy as offi

The Indian government has extended for another five years its ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which assassinated former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, it was announced on Tuesday. The step was taken under sub-sections (1) and (3) of section 3 of the Unlawful Activ

Jaipur: The Congress government in Rajasthan is all set to undo the changes made by the previous Vasundhara Raje-led Bharatiya Janata Party government in the state board textbooks. The government has decided to remove the reference to RSS icon Vinayak Savarkar as a “brave revolutionary”, and add det

Grounded carrier Jet Airways’ deputy chief executive and chief financial officer (CFO) Amit Agarwal has resigned, the airline said on Tuesday. Mr. Agarwal’s resignation is effective from May 13, it said. “We wish to inform that Amit Agarwal, the deputy chief executive officer and CFO of the co