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

Goa's new BJP-led coalition government of Pramod Sawant on Wednesday won a vote of confidence on the floor of the Legislative Assembly during a specially convened session. While the government got 20 votes, the Opposition secured 15 in the 36-member truncated House of 40. Deputy Speaker Michael L

Srinagar: A 28-year-old school teacher, who was arrested in connection with a terror case, died in police custody here, triggering protests at his town in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Tuesday, police said. The state government has order a magisterial inquiry to ascertain the cause and

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday completed two years in office and said on the occasion that the last two years have been exemplary in terms of development that the state has witnessed. “Today, we have completed two years in the government. We thank the Centre for

Panaji: BJP president Amit Shah will meet alliance partners in the Goa government Monday evening to decide the next coastal state's chief minister amid stalemate over the issue, a party leader said. The BJP has not been able to convince its alliance partners the Goa Forward Party (GFP), the Mahar

Pointing to 'Main Bhi Chowkidar' [I am also watchman] campaign launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress president Rahul Gandhi unleashed a bitter attack against by repeatedly stating that Mr. Modi had launched the campaign after his “theft” was caught. He also alleged that the Prime Minist

Former Supreme Court judge Pinaki Chandra Ghose is likely to be the first Lokpal of the country, officials in the know of developments said. Justice PC Ghose’s name was cleared by the selection committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Chief Justice of I

“Bharosa Party”, “Sabsi Badi Party”, and “Rashtriya Saaf Niti Party” are some of the 2,300- odd political parties that India has on the eve of the 2019 general elections. The Election Commission of India’s latest data on political parties, registered till March 9, a day before the Lok Sabha elect