New Delhi: Several leaders of the Congress have resigned from their posts to give Rahul Gandhi a free hand to choose a new team in the wake of the Lok Sabha election disaster although he is adamant on giving up the presidency. Hours after Vivek Tankha quit as the party's Chairman for Law and RTI ce

New Delhi: Centre on Thursday rejected Delhi government's proposal to make commuting in the city's Metro free for women. The Centre is learnt to have told Aam Aadmi Party's government in Delhi to look at alternate ways to ensure women's safety and access to transport network - reasons that had be

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of the reservation awarded to the Maratha community in government jobs and education, but said the quota percentage should be reduced from 16% to 12% to 13% as recommended by the State Backward Classes Commission (SEBC).

An Air India passenger plane flying to the United States was escorted by British fighter jets to land in London on Thursday after a bomb threat. Air India said flight AI 191 from Mumbai to Newark had made a precautionary landing at London Stansted Airport “due to bomb threat.” Britain scramble

Kerala was ranked the best in the country in terms of health performance, according to health index scores in a report by NITI Aayog. Kerala had an overall score of 74.01, with Andhra Pradesh coming second at 65.13. The states are broadly grouped into three: larger and smaller states and union terri

New Delhi: The central government on Wednesday appointed Arvind Kumar, a 1984 batch IPS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, as the new director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), while Samant Goel of the Punjab cadre was appointed chief of India’s external spy agency, Research and Analysis Wing (R&a

Kolkata: The Special Task Force of Kolkata Police has arrested four members of banned terror outfit Neo-JMB (Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh), including three Bangladeshi nationals from Kolkata, an officer said on Tuesday. Based on prior information, the STF officers arrested two Bangladeshi Nation

A small outlet selling steaming and spicy ‘kachoris’ - a popular snack in Uttar Pradesh - in a narrow lane of Aligarh has come under the lens of commercial tax department. Reason: The outlet’s owner Mukesh Kumar has a whopping annual turnover of around Rs 60-70 lakh but does not pay any tax. D

RANCHI: Twenty-two-year-old Tabrez Ansari on Sunday succumbed to his injuries in a hospital, a week after he was brutally thrashed by a mob at Dhatkidih village in Seraikela district over suspicion of stealing a bike. Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das has ordered a probe by a Special Investigati

MUMBAI: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor Viral Acharya on Monday told Mint he has quit his role, six months before the end of his tenure. "I have decided to leave six months early due to unavoidable personal reasons. So much to finish in the last month! I am sticking to my school teach

The kingpins of Bike Bot scheme duped 2.25 lakh investors of around ₹1,500 crore and diverted ₹650 crore to different accounts, before two of them were held by police earlier in June. The accused bought luxury cars, including Jaguar, Audi and Range Rover, from the money, police said, adding that fiv

Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking to increase the strength of judges and raise the retirement age of high court judges to 65 years. Gogoi has also urged the Prime Minister to make tenure appointments of retired apex court judges and high court

Mumbai: Maharashtra government will bring in a legislation to make teaching Marathi language compulsory in all schools in the state, including those affiliated to ICSE and CBSE, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said Thursday. Mr Fadnavis informed the Legislative Council that there is already a provi

Sacked Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has been sentenced to life by a Jamnagar court in connection with a 30-year-old custodial death case. Another police officer Praveen Singh Jhala has also been sent to prison for life. The Supreme Court had last week refused to entertain Bhatt's plea s

NEW DELHI: The Upper House of Parliament is likely to take up the triple talaq bill, which criminalises instant divorce among Muslim community members, on Thursday. It may be recalled that the proceedings of the Rajya Sabha began soon after the President's joint address of the Parliament on Thurs

The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday approved an ordinance making it mandatory for new and existing private universities to give an undertaking that they will not be involved in “any anti-national activity”, The Times of India reported. Universities would also have to submit that they will not al

New Delhi: The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways on Tuesday decided to remove the requirement of minimum educational qualification for driving a transport vehicle. The process of amendment to Rule 8 of Central Motor Vehicles 1989 and the draft notification in this regard will be issued soon

Five days after a 19-year-old woman and her boyfriend sustained burn injuries after an alleged “chemical attack” in West Delhi’s Vikaspuri, police have arrested the woman for allegedly orchestrating the same. In the incident on June 11, the woman’s 24-year-old boyfriend, who was riding the two-wh