New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday sought the Election Commission's response on a plea by Opposition leaders seeking the counting of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips of 50 per cent of EVMs in each constituency before the Lok Sabha results are declared. A bench comprising Chief Ju

Bulandshahr: In a major embarrassment for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party at the Centre, Union Minister of State for Culture and Tourism, Mahesh Sharma, has sparked controversy ahead of the crucial 2019 Lok Sabha elections by saying that “if God cannot fulfil needs, how can a Member of Parliament”

In an attempt to prevent future incidents where government authorities reveal the identity of a sexual assault survivor, the Madras High Court ordered the government of Tamil Nadu to pay an interim compensation of Rs 25 lakh to the Pollachi survivor for ‘violation of her privacy, dignity and image’.

Mumbai: At least six people were killed and 32 injured as a major portion of a foot overbridge near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) railway station in Mumbai collapsed on Thursday evening. An eyewitness said when the bridge collapsed, there was a red light at the nearby signal, an

Gujarat: Moving to act on the order banning popular battle royale game PUBG, Rajkot police has now gone ahead and arrested as many as 10 people for playing the game over the last two days. Of the 10 arrested, six are undergraduates, reports the Indian Express. The six college students were arrest

The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday transferred the Pollachi serial sexual assault and blackmail case to the Central Bureau of Investigation. On Tuesday, the Tamil Nadu Police had said that the Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department has taken over the case. The case relates to allegati

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