Suspected militants on Tuesday shot at and wounded an RSS leader, Chandrakant Singh, and killed his personal security officer in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar. The PSO of the RSS leader was a police constable. Curfew has been imposed in the area following the attack and security forces have lau

Gurugram: In a case reported, Hindu Sena members were held for forcefully shutting meat shops in the view of the Navratri festival. The police confirmed the incident on Sunday. According to a report by the news agency PTI, the incident was captured in CCTV footage, where the accused were seen pul

Delhi Police Monday arrested two officials of the Supreme Court for allegedly posting an order on the court’s website that said Reliance Communications chief Anil Ambani’s presence in the case had been dispensed with, instead of stating that it had not been dispensed with. The arrested men identi

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to declare all registered and recognized political parties as “public authority” under the Right to Information Act. The plea, filed by BJP leader and advocate Ashwini Upadhyay, said, “As per section 29C of the Representation of Pe

ODISHA: Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, Assembly. Shyam Babu Subudhi from Odisha's Berhampu has contested them all as an independent since 1962. Failure, however, hasn't been a deterrence. In fact, he lost 32 times. Mr Subudhi is now once again eyeing a win in the national elections that will start on April

New Delhi: Accusing the BJP president Amit Shah of filing a false affidavit of his income declaration, the Congress party on Friday asked the Election Commission to disqualify him from contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Gandhinagar. Demanding action against Shah for allegedly not disclosing

Kanishak Kataria, Akshat Jain, and Junaid Ahmad, the top rankers of this year`s Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) examination, expressed gratitude to their respective families while confessing that they were taken aback by their achievements. Speaking to ANI, Kanishak, who hails from Rajasthan

Bhopal: A day after benched veteran BJP leader LK Advani wrote a parting shot at the party, another senior BJP leader – Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan – has written a letter saying she does not want to contest the Lok Sabha elections anymore. Mahajan, who was hopeful of a ticket from Indore in

NEW DELHI: The BJP has topped the chart of political advertisers on Google with an advertisement spent share of around 32 per cent, while its rival Congress is ranked sixth with a meagre 0.14 per cent share. Political parties and their affiliates have spent Rs. 3.76 crore on advertisements since

Coimbatore: DMK president MK Stalin dared the Income Tax (IT) department on Wednesday to conduct raids on the premises of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "Definitely there are crores of money stashed in Modi's house and will the IT department be ready to conduct the raids on Modi's house?," Stalin

New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday alleged that a "cash for votes" scam was busted in Arunachal Pradesh with the recovery of Rs 1.8 crore in cash from Chief Minister Pema Khandu's convoy and asked the poll panel to register a case against Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as the chief minister

The chief proctor of the Banaras Hindu University was among the five persons booked for the murder of a varsity student who was shot dead on campus on Tuesday. Chief Proctor Royana Singh faces charges of murder and criminal conspiracy. The FIR lodged by the police at Lanka police station names Ro

Nine medium intensity earthquakes, with a magnitude ranging from 4.7 to 5.2, hit the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Monday morning, all in a span of two hours, according to the National Centre for Seismology. The first jolt with a magnitude of 4.9 occurred at 5.14 am followed by another jolt with a

New Delhi: Patidar leader Hardik Patel moved the Supreme Court today, challenging the Gujarat High Court order, which declined to stay his conviction so that he can contest the Lok Sabha elections, scheduled to start in ten days. The lower court at Mehsana in Gujarat had sentenced him to two years'

Ahmednagar: A 17-year-old girl in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra was allegedly killed by her father who was against her friendship with a boy studying with her in college, police said on Sunday. Police said they suspected it to be a case of "honour killing". The girl used to frequently tex

27-year-old Tushara was brought to the Kollam District Hospital on March 21. The frail woman, who is a mother of two, was declared brought dead by the hospital, but with suspicions being raised about the cause of death, her body was taken to the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College for an autopsy.

In one of its largest ever gold seizure, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized 106.9 kg of gold from several parts of Mumbai over the last two days. Seven persons have been arrested and were sent to judicial custody till April 11 on Friday. Besides the gold, Rs 1.81 crore in ca

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India has served notice to the Ministry of Railways after social media users reported that tea was being served on a Shatabdi train in paper cups with PM Modi's campaign line, "Main Bhi Chowkidar (I'm also watchman)", printed on them, news agency ANI reported.