Guwahati: All Assam Students Union (AASU) members shouted slogans against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and waved black flags at Prime Minister Narendra Modi who arrived here on Friday evening on a two-day visit to the Northeast. The prime minister witnessed the protests when he tr

Jaipur: In the wake of the ongoing reservation stir by the Gujjar community in Rajasthan, five trains were cancelled and one was diverted in Kota division of West Central Railway zone on Saturday. Meanwhile, members of Gujjar community, who have been agitating on railway tracks in Rajasthan, dema

At least 30 people were killed on Friday after drinking spurious liquor in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur and Kushinagar districts and Uttarakhand's Roorkee. At least 16 people died on Friday after drinking spurious liquor in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur and Kushinagar districts. According to Kushin

Kulgam: Two of the 10 policemen, who were trapped under snow after an avalanche hit a police post in South Kashmir's Kulgam district on Thursday, have been rescued, the Jammu and Kashmir Police said on Friday. The avalanche hit the north portal of Jawahar Tunnel on the Qazigund side. Meanwhile, e

A Muslim teacher in Bihar’s Katihar district was beaten up by locals after he refused to say ‘Vande Mataram’ following the flag-hoisting ceremony on Republic Day on January 26. The video of local residents thrashing the primary school teacher, identified as Afzal Hussain, has gone viral. Hussa

In a significant announcement, Mahila Congress president Sushmita Dev on Thursday said that the party would abolish the Triple Talaq law if it was voted to power in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Speaking at the AICC minorities convention in the presence of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, Dev said t

Lucknow: In line with their promise to protect cows, the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Uttar Pradesh allocated Rs 247.60 crores for building cow shelters across UP in the state Bugdet presented in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on Thursday. “Rs 247.60 crore has been proposed for maintenance and constr

New Delhi, Feb 6: The Supreme Court has said that linkage of PAN with Aadhaar is mandatory for filing of Income Tax returns. A bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and S Abdul Nazeer said the top court has already decided the matter and upheld the section 139AA of the Income Tax Act. The court'

New Delhi: Army has detained three personnel of the 44 Rashtriya Rifles for their alleged involvement in the abduction and killing of fellow soldier Aurangzeb by militants in June last year. Sources told CNN-News18, that the three are being questioned over charges that they "shared information of

India’s latest communication satellite GSAT-31 was successfully launched by European launch services provider- Arianespace’s rocket from French Guiana in the early hours of Wednesday. Blasting off from Ariane Launch Complex at Kourou, a French territory located in northeastern coast of South Amer

While the PUBG craze has taken over gamers in India, it is also facing a lot of backlash as it is leading to video-game addiction and in some cases, suicide. According to a recent report an 18-year-old boy allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself. The reason given for the boy’s extreme step is

After the “unprecedented” turn of events in Kolkata over the CBI’s bid to question City Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in the Saradha chit fund scam on Sunday evening, the Centre is unlikely to recommend President’s rule in the State. Though Home Minister Rajnath Singh told the Lok Sabha on Mon

The government has reached out to social activist Anna Hazare, whose indefinite fast to push for appointment of Lokpal entered seventh day on Tuesday as two Union ministers and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis met him at Ralegan Siddhi in Pune. Fadnavis was accompanied by Union Agricultu

Raipur, Madhya Pradesh: Four office bearers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were arrested in Raipur for allegedly assaulting a journalist inside the party's’ office in the city, said reports. The arrests were made after a case was registered against BJP district president Rajeev Agarwal and loca

Just hours before for the weekly temple procession, three diamond-studded golden crowns of the processional deity of the Govindaraja Swamy Temple in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, were found missing on Saturday evening. The temple, situated in Chittoor district, is an ancient Vaishnavite temple, and the

Hyderabad: A 22-year-old student passed away when he accidentally fell from the terrace of his hostel building. A student of the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H), the deceased allegedly fell from the building of his seven-storey hostel on Friday while talking on the phone and succum

Rishi Kumar Shukla, 1983 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, was on Saturday appointed as the new chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The appointment came almost a day after the second meeting of the PM Narendra Modi-led selection committee was inconclusive. “The Appointmen

Two weeks after deposed CBI Director Alok Verma told the Department of Personnel and Training to consider him retired, the Ministry of Home Affairs replied to him a day before his superannuation as Director, asking him to join office as DG, Fire Services, Civil Defence & Home Guards immediately.