Ahmedabad: A day after 20 students were killed in a massive fire at a coaching centre running inside a commercial building in Surat, the owner of the coaching centre has been arrested as it was found that there were gross structural irregularities and willful negligence of fire safety norms, police

Prime Minister Narendra Modi may be sworn-in for the second term on May 30 and some world leaders could be invited for it, making it an event bigger than the 2014 when heads of governments of SAARC countries were invited, sources said in New Delhi on Friday. Before his swearing-in, Modi is likely

Rahul Gandhi may resign as Congress president post tomorrow at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting. Rahul Gandhi on Thursday offered to resign as Congress chief after a loss in Lok Sabha elections that saw him lose even his stronghold of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh. Rahul Gandhi lost to B

Making its victory only sweeter in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP has won a massive 18 seats in Bengal, a significant improvement from its best ever tally of two seats in 2014. Not even the third horse in the race until the 2016 Assembly elections, the BJP was engaged in a neck-and neck fight

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday condoled the demise of Kalpana Dash, Odisha’s first woman mountaineer, saying it would inspire generations of young women in the State. Kalpana (50) died after scaling the Mount Everest on Thursday. She had complained breathlessness while descending from th

Following yet another massive defeat for his party across the nation and in one of his own seats, at the Gandhi-family bastion of Amethi, at the hands of the BJP, Congress President Rahul Gandhi addressed the media and accepted his defeat. In a short press conference at the party HQ in Delhi, Rah

The Election Commission (EC) is likely to take disciplinary action against 20 officials who allegedly forgot to delete mock poll votes at five polling stations during Lok Sabha elections in Himachal Pradesh on Sunday. State’s chief electoral officer (CEO) Devesh Kumar on Tuesday said the Election

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