New Delhi: The EC has issued a show-cause notice to Delhi BJP MLA Om Prakash Sharma for putting up two posters featuring him, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman on Facebook. The Election Commission (EC) has asked him to take down the post and give a reply by

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday tagged top politicians including Congress president Rahul Gandhi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, celebrities including Alia Bhatt and Ranveer Singh, and other prominent personalities on Twitter urging them to “encourage” people to vote in rec

New Delhi: The Defence Ministry has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court (SC) in the Rafale case after it got permission from the apex court earlier day. The government told the SC that those who 'conspired by making photocopies of the sensitive Rafale documents and used those in the review petit

A 26-year-old unmarried full-term pregnant woman attempted self-delivery at her rented accommodation here while watching a child delivery video on YouTube. Both, the woman and her child, a boy, died in the process, police said on Monday. The incident took place in the city’s Bilandpur area, under

Archaeologists in Gujarat have discovered a massive burial site around 360 kilometers from Dholavira in the Kutch district which they believe dates back to the Harappan Civilization. According to a Times of India report, the burial site has over 250 graves and 26 of them have already been excavat

Mumbai: In a bizarre turn of events, a businessman from Mumbai’s Saki Naka died nearly two days after a hair transplant, as reported by a leading daily. The exact reason behind the death still remains a mystery as the autopsy findings are inconclusive. However, doctors at the hospital where the h

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a fresh charge sheet against PNB scam accused Nirav Modi under the anti-money laundering law, officials said on Monday. They said the charge sheet or the prosecution complaint has been filed before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PM

New Delhi:Political parties and candidates cannot use photographs of any defence personnel or functions of the defence forces in their poll advertisements for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the Election Commission said on Saturday, reiterating its instructions issued in 2013 against such propagan

The most advanced AK 203 rifles produced in Amethi will have remarkably improved performance parameters as compared to the INSAS rifle, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman wrote on Saturday in a Facebook post. Pointing out the features of the advanced rifle, she said: "With an effective range of

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday took a dig the Attorney General (AG) KK Venugopal's changed stance over the 'leaked Rafale files.' Chidambaram said that it was "stolen" on Wednesday and "photocopied document" on Friday and therefore, the "thief"

Jagdish Mukhi was on Saturday sworn-in as the Governor of Mizoram at a simple function at the Raj Bhavan in Aizawl. Gauhati High Court judge, Justice Nelson Sailo administered the oath of office to Jagdish Mukhi. Mr Mukhi is also the Governor of Assam. He succeeded Kummanam Rajasekharan as

Diamantaire Nirav Modi's bungalow, Roopanya, at Kihim in Raigad district of Maharashtra, was demolished through controlled blasting at 11.15 a.m. on Friday. At least 110 holes were drilled into the pillars using excavators, and close to 30 kg explosives were fixed inside the holes over the last two

A MiG-21 fighter aircraft on a routine mission crashed on Friday after it was airborne from the Nal Air Force station near Bikaner in Rajasthan. The pilot ejected safely, the Air Force said. Initial inputs indicated the likely cause as a bird strike after the take-off, an IAF spokesperson said, a

The Supreme Court Thursday granted bail to 2002 Gujarat riots convict Babu Bajrangi on medical grounds. The Bajrang Dal leader was convicted in the Naroda Patiya case in which 97 people were killed, and had been sentenced to undergo life imprisonment. In 2007, the investigative journal Tehelka pu

Jammu: A teenager was killed and 32 others were injured Thursday in a grenade attack by suspected terrorists in the crowded SRTC bus stand area in the heart of the city. Police said one suspect named Yasir Bhatt, from Kulgam area of Kashmir, has been arrested for lobbing the grenade. He was nabbe

New Delhi: Patidar leader Hardik Patel is set to join the Congress on March 12 and will contest the Lok Sabha election from Jamnagar constituency in Gujarat. "Patel, who led the agitation demanding reservation for the Patidar community, will join the Congress in the presence of party chief Rahul

NEW DELHI: After the Central Board of Secondary Education or CBSE has located a number of uploads on Youtube, a video sharing and hosting website, falsely claiming to have access to the original question papers of upcoming annual exams, it has filed an FIR in this connection, said a statement from t

The Union government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the documents related to Rafale fighter aircraft deal have been stolen from the Ministry of Defence (MoD), and the petitioners seeking a review of the verdict dismissing all pleas against the purchase of the jets relied upon those papers.