A charge sheet was filed today against former student union leaders Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and eight others for allegedly holding an "anti-national" event at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi in February 2016. The police said they have evidence to proceed against former JNU Students' Unio

The Aam Aadmi Party Sunday said its convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal will not be contesting from Varanasi in the coming Lok Sabha elections, but the party will field a strong candidate for the seat. “Kejriwal will not contest the Lok Sabha polls, as he wants to give special focus

Six people, including 5 of a family, were killed after a car collided head-on with a KSRTC bus on MC road, Kambakod in Kerala’s Kollam district, on Saturday. The deceased included 3 women and a child. Those who died were identified as Arun (21), who drove the car, Mini (45), Mini’s daughter Anjan

Indore: Five persons, including a BJP leader and his three sons, were on Saturday arrested for allegedly killing a 22-year-old woman two years ago, with police claiming that the plot was inspired by the 2015 Bollywood film 'Drishyam' starring Ajay Devgn. Indore Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Hari

Justice A K Patnaik, the retired Supreme Court judge who was asked by the apex court to supervise the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) enquiry that eventually led to the ouster of CBI Director Alok Verma, on Friday said there was “no evidence of corruption” against Verma, and “what the CVC says ca

The Justice H S Bedi committee, which investigated several cases of alleged fake encounter in Gujarat from 2002 to 2006, has recommended prosecution of police officials in three out of the 17 cases probed by it. In its final report filed in the apex court, Justice Bedi has said three persons -- S

New Delhi: The government is spending more than Rs 20,000 crore to rectify accident-prone black spots on roads across the country in order to reduce fatalities in such incidents, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Friday. Speaking here at the launch of a research report by Nissan India and Save

The GST Council on Thursday approved doubling of the exemption threshold under Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime to Rs 40 lakh along with raising the turnover limit under composition scheme to Rs 1.5 crore from current Rs 1 crore with effect from April 1. States, however, will have the option to c

GUWAHATI: Three Asom Gana Parishad Ministers Wednesday resigned from the Assam Cabinet, two days after their party exited the government over the Citizenship Amendment Bill. Agriculture Minister Atul Bora, Water Resources Minister Keshav Mahanta and Food and Civil Supplies Minister Phanibhushan C

A man from Tamil Nadu has said he was humiliated at an immigration counter of Mumbai’s international airport “for knowing only Tamil and English and NOT Hindi”, prompting the immigration department to initiate an investigation against one of their officers. Abraham Samuel alleged on Twitter late

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday formed a five-judge Constitution Bench to hear the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi title dispute case. The bench, to be headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, will decide on Thursday when to take up the politically sensitive case. CJI Gogoi had said at the prev

Shah Faesal, the outspoken IAS topper whose success inspired many young Kashmiris to join the civil services, announced on Wednesday that he has decided to resign from the government and join electoral politics. Faesal, 35, attributed his decision to protest what he described as “the unabated killin

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has named Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani as the chairman of a special committee to assess the digitisation of payments in the country. Nilekani will head the high-level five-member committee on deepening of digital payments. Apart from Nilekani, the committe

New Delhi: Exiled CBI chief Alok Verma was reinstated by the Supreme Court today, three months after the government divested him of his powers and sent him on forced leave in a midnight swoop. Alok Verma can go back to his office but cannot take any major policy decisions for now, the top court said

A man was shot dead by two unidentified men in Jhilmil Industrial area of East Delhi on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Hariom Sharma. New delhi,jan 06,2019: A 35-year-old man was shot dead by two unidentified men in Jhilmil Industrial area of East Delhi on Sunday. The deceased was identifie

A 30-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly setting his59-year-old mother on fire over a property issue. Further investigation in the case underway. Odisha: In an appalling case reported from Malkangiri district of Odisha, a 30-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly settin

A 10-year-old boy who died in celebratory firing during New Year celebrations in north-east Delhi’s Usmanpur was shot “accidentally” by his own father, police said on Saturday. The man told police he was “checking out” a country-made pistol. The father, Yaseen Malik, was arrested on Friday night

New Delhi: The petitioner, who sought a stay on the trailer of The Accidental Prime Minister on Sunday said that the Anupam Kher starrer film has been made to systematically wash the minds of voters ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. On Saturday, a petition was filed in the Delhi High court, seeking