Ahmedabad: Patidar quota leader Hardik Patel will not get his electoral debut in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls as the Gujarat High Court on Tuesday rejected his petition seeking a stay of his conviction in a 2015 rioting case in the state. Patel, who had joined the Congress recently, had moved the hig

NEEMUCH: A local court in Neemuch on Thursday directed Bharatiya Janata Party legislator Dilip Singh Parihar to be jailed along with another BJP leader for allegedly violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC). The two leaders along with few other party workers on Thursday evening organised firewor

Dehradun: A boarding school near Rishikesh has come under scanner for allegedly trying to cover up a crime incident that took place on its premises. The school management is said to have hurriedly buried a 12-year-old boy's body on the campus after he was beaten to death with cricket bats and wicket

NEW DELHI: To ensure "efficient functioning" and "streamlining the working" of tribunals, the Supreme Court Wednesday sought to know from the Centre within two weeks its view on bringing all the quasi-judicial bodies under one central umbrella body. The top court said it would not like to be bogged

Days after the trailer of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s biopic starring Vivek Oberoi released, the Election Commission has said that the film may have violated the Model Code of Conduct. The Chief Delhi Electoral Office has sent a communication regarding the same to the filmmakers and are awaiting

PANAJI: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday removed MGP leader Sudin Dhavalikar as his deputy after two MLAs of Dhavalikar's party decided to break away from Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) in order to join the BJP. Goa CM Sawant, however, said that Sudin Dhavalikar has been droppe

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate or ED has arrested a defence agent from Delhi in the Rs. 3,600-crore VVIP choppers deal case, officials said today. They said Sushen Mohan Gupta was arrested late on Monday evening by ED officials under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Mr Gupta,

New Delhi: Businessman Vijay Mallya on Tuesday urged Indian banks to “take his money” and save cash-strapped Jet Airways. “I repeat once again that I have placed liquid assets before the Hon’ble Karnataka High Court to pay off the PSU Banks and all other creditors. Why do the Banks not take my mo

In a bizarre act, a mother in Bihar’s Chhapra on Saturday applied ‘Feviquick’ (glue) on the lips of her son to stop him from crying. “After some work, I came back home and found him quiet. The froth was coming out of his mouth,” said the child’s father. “When I asked my wife, Shobha, about him

Residents of this small town in north Kashmir’s Bandipora are coming to terms with the death of 12-year-old Aatif Mir, a Class VI student of Army Goodwill School, who was held hostage in his own home by two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants and then killed by them even as security forces tried to secure his

Hisar: Relentless efforts by the Indian Army, the National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) and the Haryana police led to the safe return of a one-and-a-half-year-old toddler on Friday. The child was rescued from inside a 70 feet deep borewell following a 48-hour-long joint operation which began at arou

Gurugram: Members of a family were thrashed by a mob armed with sticks and swords after an argument over playing cricket on an empty ground on Holi escalated in Bhondsi area on Thursday evening. A group of unidentified men barged the victim’s house in Bhoop Nagar village and started breaking thin

New Delhi: In a massive crackdown on separatists in Jammu and Kashmir, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), on Friday slapped the stringent Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) on Syed Ali Shah Geelani. The ED is also set to confiscate the illegal foreign exchange recovered from Jammu and Kashmir Lib

New Delhi: A Jaish-e-Mohammed Sajjad Khan, a close aide of Pulwama attack mastermind Muddasir was arrested here, police said on Friday. Sajjad Khan (27), a resident of Pulwama, was arrested near the Lajpat Rai market late Thursday night, they said. "Muddasir, the mastermind of Pulwama attack w

Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav has revived attack on the Narendra Modi government over Pulwama terror strike owned by Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed. Yadav has called the Pulwama terror attack a “conspiracy” in which “soldiers were killed for vote”. The SP leader said if th

BJP MLA from Lakhimpur Kheri, Yogesh Verma, was shot at during Holi festivities at the party office on Thursday. Lakhimpur Kheri SP said that the BJP legislator was shot in the leg. Verma was immediately rushed to the hospital and he is out of danger, ANI reported. A case has been registered and

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan on Thursday rejected reports that he is planning to contest elections, saying that he has no plan to jump into politics and is also not thinking of campaigning for any political party. "Contrary to the rumours I am not contesting elections nor campaigning for any p

A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on Wednesday acquitted main accused Swami Aseemanand and three other accused in the 2007 Samjhauta Express bombing case. Mukesh Garg, counsel for Aseemanand, told reporters that the court acquitted them as the NIA was not able to prove the charg