Raipur: Two Naxals, allegedly involved in the killing of a BJP MLA and four security personnel, were gunned down in a fierce encounter with police on Thursday in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, officials said. Another rebel was injured in the skirmish that took place around 5.30 am at a forest

Ahmedabad/Bhopal/Jaipur: Unseasonal rain, dust storm and lightning hit several parts of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat overnight, leaving 35 people dead and many others injured, officials said on Wednesday. Madhya Pradesh reported 15 casualties in rain-related incidents. 10 people each wer

The Income Tax Department’s Investigations Wing on Wednesday seized ₹1.48 crore as accounted cash, even as police opened fire in the air to prevent miscreants from stealing the money. The seizure came as the department concluded searches at Andipatti, Theni. B. Murali Kumar, Director General I

The Supreme Court Tuesday issued a notice to the Centre, National Commission for Women, Central Waqf Council and All India Muslim Personal Law Board after a Pune-based couple sought permission for Muslim women to enter mosques and offer prayers. The petition by Yasmeen Zuber Ahmad Peerzade and he

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has reportedly asked Google and Apple to remove the Chinese video sharing application TikTok from their app stores. This development comes just a day after the Supreme Court had rejected TikTok’s plea to stay a Madras High Court order from A

Thiruvananthapuram: Congress MP and candidate from the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency, Shashi Tharoor, cancelled his election rally here on Monday after he was injured while making a Thulabharam offering at a temple. The incident occurred at the Gandhari Amman Kovil temple in Thampanoo

The Election Commission on Monday finally acted against hate speeches in the run up to the national election and barred Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from campaigning for 72 hours and Mayawati, for 48 hours starting tomorrow morning. The commission’s orders came hours after the Sup

A local Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader Nayakapu Venkatesh was on Saturday arrested for unauthorisedly clicking a picture inside an EVM strong room in Telangana's Bogaram area. A case has been registered against him and he would be sent to judicial remand. Malkajgiri:Telangana Rashtra S

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat water supply minister Kunvarji Bavaliya was caught on camera Saturday telling a group of women who complained about drinking water woes in their village that they should have voted for him. After the video, shot on mobile camera, went viral, the minister said the question came

Hyderabad: Sleuths of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday apprehended a professor of the state-run Osmania Medical College here for allegedly demanding a bribe from students to pass them in the examination. Based on a complaint lodged by students, a case was registered and on Thursday, s

BJP MP Hema Malini lashed out at Union Minister Maneka Gandhi over her recent comment on Muslim voters. “On triple talaq issue many minority community women support us but even if they don't, and who did not. This kind of feeling doesn't come to me. Everybody is different,” the veteran actor-turn

The Congress on Friday called Union Minister and BJP candidate from the Amethi Lok Sabha seat Smriti Irani a “serial liar”, and said that she should be disqualified from contesting the polls. The party alleged that she had falsified records of her educational qualification and submitted contradictor

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from the Shillong parliamentary seat Sanbor Shullai said that he will commit suicide before PM Narendra Modi but will not let Citizenship (Amendment) Bill to be implemented in Meghalaya and other northeastern states and added that the Bill needs to be amen

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday expressed his unhappiness over Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) not functioning at several polling booths in the state. He wrote to the Chief Election Commissioner saying that EVMs were not working in 30% of the polling

The Congress has alleged breach in party president Rahul Gandhi’s security in Uttar Pradesh during his visit to Amethi in Uttar Pradesh to file his nominations this week. In a letter addressed to Home Minister Rajnath Singh, three senior Congress leaders have asked the centre to “probe and neutraliz

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has stopped the release of "PM Narendra Modi", a biopic on the Prime Minister, till the end of national elections on May 19. The commission said that any biopic "which has the potential to disturb the level playing field during the elections should not be displayed

Opposition parties today praised the Supreme Court's decision allowing leaked documents to be relied upon by petitioners seeking review of its Rafale judgement, saying the Modi government now has "no official secrets act" to hide behind and a probe into the "scam" will take place. In a setback to

Assam: A Muslim man was abused and heckled for allegedly selling beef in Assam's Biswanath district on Sunday. Police detained one person after a video of the the man on his knees in deep slush, begging to let him go, was widely shared on social media. Shaukat Ali, 68, was beaten on the road and